Opening Reception: Ed Mighell
Opening reception for exhibition of new work by Ed Mighell at the Alaska Native Arts Foundation, 5:30 – 8:00 p.m., 500 W. 6th Avenue.
IGCA First Friday
Special exhibition and reception at International Gallery of Contemporary Art featuring Lita Albuquerque, Sonya Kelliher-Combs, Rachelle Dowdy, Marisa Favretto, Helena Jonsdottir, Ana Rewakowicz, Sheila Wyne, Adriane Colburn + FREEZE installation design concepts and ICE, a series of photographs and book signing by Hal Gage; 5:30 – 7:30 p.m., IGCA, 427 D Street.
Lecture: Futurefarmers
NOTE: Futurefarmers is creating the “Transpolar Catapult Feedback Loop” — one of the installations on the Delaney Park Strip.
Futurefarmers (www.futurefarmers.com ) is a group of practitioners aligned through an open practice of making work that is relevant to the time and space surrounding us. Through collaboration, we explore the relationship of concept and creative process between interdisciplinary artists. Since 1995, Futurefarmers has served as a design studio producing projects for clients including Adobe, Swatch, Hewlett Packard, Levi’s, Autodesk, Nike, LucasFilm, Greenpeace, PBS, NEC and MSNBC.
Founder Amy Franceschini is an artist and educator. She founded Futurefarmers in 1995 as a means to bring together multidisciplinary practitioners to create new work. She is a professor of fine art and design at University of San Francisco and teaches graduate seminars at California College of the Arts.
Futurefarmers have exhibited internationally at numerous galleries and museums, including the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York Museum of Modern Art, the ZKM in Germany and at The Whitney Biennale. They have received numerous awards including the Fleischaker Eureka Award, Artadia Award and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art’s 2006 SECA Award.
Anchorage Museum auditorium, $10 general admission. Sponsored by the Alaska Design Forum.
Construction Begins
Construction of installations begins on the Delaney Park Strip between E and I Streets.
FREEZE New Years Eve Party
A New Year’s Eve Worth FREEZING For: Come to the Anchorage Museum and chill out. Open to all to welcome FREEZE artists and designers, enjoy live music by Silver Train and a range of tunes from celebrity DJ James Pepper Henry, and bet on the New Year while eating food from Marx Bros. Cafe and sipping FREEZE specialty drinks. Silent auction to benefit FREEZE. 8:00 p.m. – the new year (just after midnight). $75/pp.
Designated drivers admitted FREE. Special group rate available, so bring your party to our party. For tickets, email info@freezeproject.org or call 306-6242. Cocktail attire.
