ANCHORAGE MUSEUM GRATITUDE REPORT 02“MURMUR: PREVIEW ARCTIC REALITIES” THE ANCHORAGE MUS UM IS ABOUT Without people, a museum is only a building. Photo by Oscar Avellaneda-Cruz, 2017, Oscar Avellaneda-Cruz, by Photo It shares no stories. It is silent. PEOPLE Within your museum are stories of place and people — made possible by the support of people like you — people who see opportunity in the future and contribute to make lives better. In 2017, your vision and generosity created an expanded museum with new spaces to share stories of our North. You helped build a museum that is more than bricks and mortar — it’s a place for open minds and shared ideas, experiences and dreams. This report is to express gratitude to everyone who helped make museum spaces and programs possible in this year. Here’s to you and to a future you make possible through your continued support today. Photo by Oscar Avellaneda-Cruz, 2017, Oscar Avellaneda-Cruz, by Photo YOUR CHARITAB E 05 SUPPORT HELPE THE ART OF THE NORTH GALLERY OPENING MUSEUM GROW In September 2017, the museum expanded to Henry Luce Foundation. The expansion the North with the opening of the Rasmuson also added 10,000 square feet to the Wing. The new wing added 25,000 square feet Discovery Center, allowed for the renovation of gallery space for the museum’s art collection of the museum’s atrium, and helped make and an exploration of art in the North. real the family-focused vision for the museum’s first floor. The new wing and Art of the North galleries were made possible by private With the addition of these new and re-envisioned spaces, the museum now offers contributions from the Rasmuson 78,000 square feet of exhibition space that family and the Rasmuson Foundation, pays tribute to our encyclopedic mission and which continues the Rasmuson family the varied interests of our public. investment in our community and We can feature our state’s history and explore expresses their belief that the museum is contemporary ideas. We can look at the important to community members. landscape and explore the interactions and Additional generous gifts that made it possible impact of people within it. We can host the to conserve and prepare artworks for inclusion stories of many cultures. We can encourage in the new galleries were made by H.W. Nagley critical thinking and be a safe place for ideas III, the late Mary Ellen Segelhorst and the and multiple perspectives. Photo by Oscar Avellaneda-Cruz, 2017, Oscar Avellaneda-Cruz, by Photo YOUR CONTRIBU IONS 07 HELP TELL THE S ORY EXHIBITION” OPENING “ALASKA OF ALASKA The museum’s renovation and expansion museum conservators as they prepared included de-installing a 30-year-old Alaska more than 400 objects for the Alaska history gallery and re-envisioning it to include exhibition as well as paintings for the Art multiple viewpoints and voices, especially of the North galleries. Visitors were able to those of Alaska’s indigenous cultures. see what is normally behind the scenes and had opportunities to learn about The new Alaska exhibition, which opened conservation science. at the same time as the expansion, tells the story of Alaska through diverse voices Thank you to the 160 donors who and perspectives reflecting the ingenuity, contributed more than $124,000 to technology, ways of knowing and intimate the Alaska Community Donor Wall understanding of the landscape that have campaign to help fund the conservation, allowed people to survive and thrive across the North. acquisition and exhibition of objects and artworks for Alaskans and visitors While the Alaska exhibition underwent to appreciate for years to come. renovation, the museum transformed several first floor galleries into visible storage and a Conservation Lab. The Lab was home to Photo by Chris Arend, 2016, Chris Arend, by Photo YOUR GIFT MAKES A 09SPARK!LAB DIFFERENCE Your contributions — year in and ways to connect content to contemporary year out — not only help to build local and global issues and ideas. In 2017, the and revitalize spaces, they also help museum received a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support community launch programs, develop ground- curation in working with underserved breaking exhibitions, provide access communities. The $350,000 grant, for use over and opportunities for everyone, and three years, funded a new position, Curator of keep the museum at the center of Contemporary Indigenous Art and Culture, and conversations about the North. supports a new guest curator program. Your 2017 contributions made the following Education With the opening of the new Photo by Jody Overstreet, 2018, Inventor Showcase. possible — plus much more. galleries, the museum’s education focus in 2017 was the development and delivery of Programs The museum has been focused on Exhibitions The Anchorage Museum curates an Alaska history and northern landscape being not solely a place for exhibitions but as and presents over 20 exhibitions each year. curriculum to accompany the new galleries and a place that also offers innovative and robust Until recently, it was not the museum’s exhibitions. Northern Narratives: Educational public programs. This is the best way to reach norm to curate, organize and design its Resources on the North included the creation many communities and to feature many voices. own exhibitions on such a grand scale. Now, of object-based teaching resources, the An Urban Homesteading series, Unbound exhibitions developed here travel around launch of a long-term online platform to make literary series and a Vision and Voice speaker the world. In 2017, the exhibitions developed content more accessible, and creation of series are among the programs that engaged in-house and that traveled to other locations digital resources for K-12 educators. Northern community members, visitors and guest included: Cruisin’ the Fossil Coastline, Without Narratives was made possible through grants speakers from around the globe. Boundaries: Visual Conversations, and Portraits from the Atwood Foundation, the Hearst of Place: the Arctic in Photographs. Curatorial The Anchorage Museum looks to Foundation, and gifts from many individuals. curators to provide context and to find new HOW YOUR CONTRIBUTIONS 11 MAKE A DIFFERENCE EXHIBITIONS EDUCATION PROGRAMS ATTENDANCE 0 2000 4000 6000 8000 0 5000 10000 15000 20000 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 Exhibitions presented: 27 Students served: 7,393 Public programs: 626 Museum organized exhibitions travelling: 6 Title 1 students served: 1,895 Vistors impacted through programs: 15,456 Visitors: 195,233 Planetarium Admissions: 11,115 Member visits: 18,375 Free Admissions: 40,891 2017 FINANCIAL SNAPSHOT 13 Thanks to your generous support, the Anchorage Museum is financially healthy and able to continue engaging Alaskans and visitors through groundbreaking exhibitions, expanded public programming and distinct experiences. REVENUE EXPENSES Municipality of Anchorage $5,310,286 Facility $2,475,634 Exhibitions $1,892,712 Anchorage Museum Foundation $1,582,556 Administration $1,138,076 Admissions $1,241,783 Education and Public Programs $1,047,323 Museum Store $1,016,810 and Enterprise Museum Store and Enterprise $738,011 Marketing $736,598 Contributions $865,597 and Sponsorships Collections $702,332 Memberships $525,520 IT $684,916 Foundations $508,775 Visitor Services $547,431 Fundraising $524,297 Programs $295,478 Community Partnership $351,176 Other Income $282,142 and Outreach In Kind $212,039 Curatorial $277,070 Special Events $211,446 Design $258,784 Government Grants $112,505 Special Events $201,254 $12,164,937 $11,575,614 $8,163,164 YEAR-END NET ASSETS Source: 2017 AMA Year-End Financial Statements 2017 ANCHORAGE 15 MUSEUM ASSOCIATION DISCOVER $1,000 to $2,499 DONORS Alaska USA Federal Credit Union Diane and Dennis Allen Heather Arnett First National Bank Alaska CHAMPION STEWARD and Jeffrey Sinz Hotel Captain Cook $100,000 or more $25,000 to $49,999 Sarah Barton The CIRI Foundation and Joseph Davis TOTE Maritime Atwood Foundation ConocoPhillips Alaska, Inc. Todd and Christi Bell Lile and John Gibbons Cook Inlet Tribal Council, Inc. Elizabeth and Dean Blair The Hearst Foundations Laurie and Michael Bleicher JL Foundation LEAD Diane Kaplan, President, Rasmuson Foundation; Judy Rasmuson; Julie Decker, Rasmuson Foundation Museum Director/CEO; Ed Rasmuson; and Mayor Ethan Berkowitz. Photo by Anson Cheng Wells Fargo $5,000 to $9,999 Oscar Avellaneda-Cruz, 2017, Art of the North Gallery Opening. and Sarah Gillespie Karen and Steve Compton Alaska State Council BENEFACTOR INNOVATE David Dempsey on the Arts $50,000 to $99,999 $10,000 to $24,999 Jeri and Jan van den Top Barbara and Larry Cash and Krista Schwarting Association of Nicholas and Davis Constructors & James Fall Fundraising Professionals Carr Foundation, Inc. Alaska Airlines Rebecca Van Wyck Engineers, Inc. Heather Flynn Donna Cherrier KTUU Channel 2 Alaska Humanities Forum Vanguard Charitable Julie Decker Laurie Gregory ECI Alaska Architecture William Lange Alaska McDonald’s John and Carolann Weir and Michael Morris and Griffith Steiner Elizabeth Firestone Graham and Karin Carroll Alyeska Pipeline Service Co. Don and Michelle Decker Ann and Dave Hale James and Saramma Kallman Eunice D. Silberer Bank of America Tina and John DeLapp Dr. Ronald Kim Peter and Jo Michalski Surdna Foundation BP Exploration (Alaska), Inc. INSPIRE Ingrid and John Klinkhart and Jessica Sotelo Judy Rasmuson The Andy Warhol Foundation Susanne Byrd $2,500 to $4,999 John Levy and Beth Rose Ann Kjera and Ronald Wallace for the