Lecture with guest juror Patrice Aphrodite Helmar
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 25 at 5:30 PM
APK Lecture Hall, Alaska State Museum
Exhibit opens
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5, 4:30–7:00 PM
Juneau –For 55 years Alaska Positive has encouraged photography as an art form in Alaska. This juried photography exhibition highlights the role of Alaskan photographers in today's visual culture. This year’s guest juror is Patrice Aphrodite Helmar.
Helmar is a photographer and artist engaged in the poetics of lived experience and everyday life. Their multidisciplinary work is concerned with issues of labor, class, queerness, and the politics of representation.
Helmar was born in Juneau and grew up working in their father’s small-town camera shop and darkroom. Their work has been shown at PARTICIPANT INC, the Jewish Museum, Ortega Y Gasset Projects, Gaa Gallery, the National Museum of Iceland, and other spaces.
They received an MAT from the University of Alaska Southeast in 2013 and an MFA in Visual Art from Columbia University in 2015. They studied at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2022 and received a 2025 MacDowell Fellowship. Helmer is a Lecturer on Art, Film, and Visual Studies at Harvard University and Columbia University's Visual Arts MFA program. They live and work in Juneau and New York City.
Helmar will give a talk at the Alaska State Museum on Tuesday, November 25 at 5:30 pm.
Alaska Positive opens on Friday, December 5 at the Alaska State Museum and runs through mid-March 2026. A statewide tour will follow.
Image: Patrice Aphrodite Helmar. Tin Foil Crowns with Dolly Girl. 2020, gelatin silver print. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
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