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ArtSceneAK Canvass: Artists Advisory on Museum Expansion

Canvass is an initiative by several Anchorage artists to provide quantifiable information to the Anchorage Museum and to the architects John Kumin and David Chipperfield by measuring the relative support given to various ideas for improvements.

You can help by ranking as many as you like of the ideas below as High, Moderate, or Low levels of importance to you. Skip any you don't care about, and be sure to add your own suggestion where space is provided.

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ArtSceneAK Canvass: Artists Advisory

Art Priorities for Anchorage Museum Expansion Include:

    

 Expansion of support for artists living and working in Alaska.
    A dedicated staff position for a Curator of Contemporary Art.
    Adding Science as an equal partner with Art and History.
    Additional staff and support for the MOA % for Art program.
    Improved visibility for artists' proposals for Public Art Commissions.
    Development of a New Collectors group with exhibitions.
    Operating a Rental Gallery to encourage new collectors.
    Support for artist-in-residence opportunities..
    Free admission to opening receptions for local and group exhibitions.
    Reduced membership rates for artists who volunteer at the Museum.
    Gallery space dedicated to more shows by local Alaskan artists.
    Increased efforts to prepare and package local shows for touring.
    Gallery space suitable for new media and installation art.
    Gallery space appropriate to scale of photography, jewelry, pottery.
    Natural and artificial lighting sufficient to illuminate artwork plainly.
    More frequent rotation of exhibitions from the Collection
    A large external electronic display programmable by artists.
    Gallery space dedicated to exhibits based on Alaska Native culture.
    Gallery space dedicated to exhibits based on other minority groups.
    Multi-disciplinary programs as important as integration.
    Children's gallery emphasis on art before science.
   
Thank you for your interest and participation. If you would like to receive results from this survey, provide your name and contact information.

The Anchorage Museum of History and Art expansion is being planned! 190,000 square feet of new construction and renovation is scheduled to break ground in mid-2005, with an anticipated opening of the new facilities in 2008. The Museum's major benefactor, Elmer Rasmusson, requested that the Museum expand its mission to include Science and the Imaginarium. ArtSceneAK believes that the strong foundation of opportunities for living artists that distinguishes the present Museum can and should be improved and enlarged during the expansion. The Museum's director, Pat Wolf, has asked for input relevant to the design of the new building from the community at large.

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