Every Monday this summer, I'll be giving two tours at the Anchorage Museum of History and Art. The 2:00 tour is in the Alaska Gallery, which is a gallery of Alaskan landscapes. I've been giving that tour for a few months, now, and I love it! It's a great chance to gush about sublime Alaska and the terribly interesting people here. The noon tour is of Changing Hands: Art Without Reservation 2, which is a traveling show from a collection curated by the Museum of Arts and Design in NYC. It features contemporary works from Native artists who live west of the Mississippi River (including Alaska, Western Canada, and Hawaii). I highly recommend stopping by if you get the chance! (You can make it a lunch date and have some tomato basil soup at the museum cafe, too... Yum!)

The piece on the left is by Clarissa Hudson,
Born 1956, Juneau, Alaska
Totemic Theory 2, 2001.
Canvas, masonite, wood frame, acrylic, gold leaf
75 1/4 x 16 x 17 in.
Collection of the artist.