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The Alaska State Museum Solo Artist Exhibition Series Presents A preview of Mitch Watley’s exhibit: MITCH DID THIS. Virtual preview available: December 4th at 4:30pm at lam.alaska.gov/first-friday.
The Alaska State Museum is pleased to present a virtual preview of Juneau-based artist Mitch Watley’s solo exhibition. For this exhibition, Watley transforms everyday objects into complex dioramas often depicting futuristic landscapes. Sculpted figures inhabit these scenes navigating life in these other-worldly settings. Viewers will get lost in the details of these small sculptures that take upwards of a year to make..
The exhibition preview opens virtually Friday, December 4th at 4:30pm at lam.alaska.gov/first-friday. The Alaska State Museum is currently closed to the public to help slow the spread of COVID-19. Please visit this masterful exhibit in-person when the APK reopens. For updates please visit, museums.alaska.gov.
Basic Facts:
| Name of Library | Sessions |
|---|---|
| Sitka Public Library | 13,153 |
| Kenai Community Library | 2,863 |
| Unalaska | 1,700 |
| Petersburg Public Library | 1,189 |
| Anchor Point Public Library | 1,180 |
Aside from telling you the total number of wireless sessions per month, WhoFi can also document how much your wifi is used for every hour your wifi is on, whether inside the library or out in the parking lot. Learn more at our Getting Wifi Statistics page from our wireless networking guide. If you'd like to sign up your library to WhoFi at no cost to you, please check with your IT people - if you have them - then contact Daniel Cornwall.
In November 2020, the OWL Videoconference Network hosted 136 videoconferences with a total of 635 participants. Representative videoconferences included:
Remember, if your patrons have home or mobile internet access, you can use your library's instance of Zoom as your virtual meeting room. Your library's account holder would start the meeting. The account holder could either stay and monitor the meeting, or could make one the participants a host and leave the meeting. Ask Daniel, Jack or Kyle to show you how.
If your public or school/public library does not yet have an OWL issued Zoom account to schedule your own videoconferences OR If you are a non-profit, local, state or federal government agency interested in doing outreach/training through library partners, please contact OWL Program Manager Daniel Cornwall.
From our friends at Sealaska Heritage Institute:
Sealaska Heritage Institute (SHI) will unveil its first-ever virtual 3-D exhibit this Friday during Gallery Walk in an effort to open the space to people worldwide during the pandemic.
The site will offer visitors a free tour of SHI’s exhibit War and Peace, which closed in April due to the pandemic and was reinvented as a virtual platform for the first Friday of December. The technology is allowing SHI to open the exhibit to everyone in a captivating way.
SHI tapped state-of-the-art technology to allow visitors to virtually roam through the exhibit, which explores traditional Tlingit laws, the consequences for breaking them and the complex peace ceremonies that ended conflicts and restored balance.
“This is not a flat environment where visitors simply click on images. You literally feel as if you are inside our exhibit space having an immersive experience,” said SHI President Rosita Worl. “I am astonished by how far this technology has come in a short period of time, and we anticipate doing more of these to expose people worldwide to Native cultures.”
The site allows users to navigate by dragging on the screen or by clicking arrows. It includes icons that when clicked bring up detailed photos of the objects and “i” icons that unveil information on the pieces. The virtual exhibit, which was designed by SHI’s Kai Monture, will be viewable on desktop and mobile devices.
The site will go live at 4:30 Alaska time on Friday, Dec. 4, at https://sealaskaheritage.org/warandpeace.
SHI will also host a live Facebook talk with author, editor and playwright Vera Starbard and Ed Littlefield, an educator and composer, who’ll talk about Perseverance Theatre’s A Tlingit Christmas Carol and being a playwright, among other things. Starbard will also make a surprise announcement! That segment is scheduled at 5 pm, Friday, at https://www.facebook.com/SHInstitute.
Do you have an exhibit you'd like to share with your statewide colleagues? Drop us a line.
We recently received an email from our friends at the Ketchikan Museums that included a listing of some of their online resources (descriptions ours). We hope you'll give these resources a visit:
If your library, archives or museums have online resources you'd like to share,drop us a line.
The Alaska Center for the Book, once again, is coordinating the annual UAA/Anchorage Daily News Creative Writing contest and would like to invite writers of all ages to submit entries. We especially would like to encourage librarians and teachers to share this information with their students and patrons. The age of entrants has ranged from 4 years old to 84 years old, so all ages are welcome. For more information on the rules and categories and to access the electronic entry form, please use this link Creative Writing Contest 2021
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