The Alaska State Museum’s biennial exhibition of Alaska photography, Alaska Positive, will be open for submissions on Aug. 15.
The juror this year is Larry McNeil, a nationally-renowned Alaska born photographer. McNeil’s art is about the intersection of cultures, American mythology, irony, and satire, and embodies a distinctive sense of American identity. He is from the Dakl’aweidi Kéet Gooshi Hít, Killer Whale Fin House in Klukwan Alaska, which is one of the oldest Tlingit clan houses on the Northwest Coast.
He has won numerous fellowships, including the Van Deren Coke Fellowship from the University of New Mexico, Eiteljorg Fellowship, an Arts and Humanities Fellowship as well as awards from the National Geographic All Roads Program and a New Works Award from En Foco.
Alaska Positive will open at the Alaska State Museum in Juneau on Nov. 4 and will be available to travel statewide through 2017. Museums interested in exhibiting Alaska Positive should contact Jackie Manning, Curator of Exhibitions at the Alaska State Museum, at (907) 465-4819
Those wanting to submit to Alaska Positive 2016 should go to CaFÉ, callforentry.org.
For more information, go to museums.alaska.gov/
