Historical Archive
Programs Presented Across Alaska
The ADF has been presenting design-related programs to a geographically-dispersed Alaskan audience since 1992. Following is a list of the lectures, exhibitions, workshops, symposiums, installations, artists-in-residence, performances and tours we’ve presented.
2010-2011
| UN/COMMON Lecture Series |
Lincoln Shatz / New Media Artist / Chicago (ANC/FBX/JUN) James Victore / Graphic Designer / New York (ANC/FBX/JUN) Faythe Levine / Artist, Filmmaker, Author / Milwaukee (ANC/FBX/JUN) Ana Dzokic and Marc Neelen of STEALTH.unlimited / Architects / Rotterdam & Belgrade (ANC/FBX/JUN) Nader Tehrani of Office dA / Architect & Designer / Boston (ANC/FBX/JUN) |
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| Special Project |
COMMON SPACE: a series of programs – a statewide design challenge, a symposium, and featured artists working concurrently in five Alaskan cities – that looked at rethinking urbanization, community infrastructure, local development, the role of activism, reactivating common spaces large and small, and the formal and informal. The following artists collaborated with ADF board members to carry out projects and installations in five cities across Alaska: Pezo von Ellrichshausen (Concepcion, Chile). Project: Soft Pavilion, in Anchorage. Candy Chang (New Orleans). Project: Looking For Love Again, in Fairbanks. Hasan Elahi (Washington, D.C.). Project: Community Video Portrait, in Homer. Spurse (New Jersey) – Iain Kerr & Petia Morozov. Project: Niġġivik / Eating Place, in Nome. Rebar (San Francisco) – Blaine Merker & Adam Green. Project: Sho-Globe, in Juneau. |
2009-2010
| Latitude Lecture Series |
Frost Produkt / Product Design / Oslo, Norway (ANC/FBX/JUN) PK arkitektar / Architect / Reykjavik, Iceland (ANC/FBX/JUN) Marian Bantjes / Graphic Design / Bowen Island, Canada (ANC/FBX/JUN) Florian Maurer / Architect / Penticton, Canada (ANC/FBX/JUN) Pezo von Ellrichshausen / Architects / Concepcion, Chile (ANC/FBX/JUN) |
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| Tour | SITE/SIGHT Architecture Tour |
2008-2009
| XGRN Lecture Series |
Cameron Sinclair, Activist, San Francisco (ANC/FBX/JUN) Fritz Haeg, Eco-Activist, Los Angeles (ANC/FBX/JUN) R & SIE, Architects, Paris, France (ANC/FBX) Futurefarmers, Artists/Designers, San Francisco (ANC/FBX) Ana Rewakowicz, Artist, Montreal (ANC/FBX/JUN) Barry Bergdoll, Curator, MOMA, New York (ANC/FBX) Mads Hagstrom, Graphic and Product Designer, Oslo, Norway (ANC/FBX/JUN) |
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| Exhibition |
FREEZE, an outdoor, winter exhibition, with a coordinating series of public lectures and programs, featuring designers (architects, artists, landscape architects, lighting designers, graphic designers and others) from around the globe working in collaboration to create installations that feature, as primary materials, snow, ice and light – elements that characterize winter in the north. Click here for FREEZE project website. |
| Tour | SITE/SIGHT Architecture Tour |
2007 – 2008
| ATTACHMENTS Lecture Series |
Alex Krieger, Urban Planner, Cambridge, MA(ANC/FBX/JUN) Cameron McNall, Multimedia Designer, Los Angeles, CA (ANC/FBX/JUN) Claesson Koivisto Rune, Architects, Stockhom, Sweden (ANC/FBX/JUN) Iwamotoscott, Lisa Iwamoto & Craig Scott, Architects, San Francisco (ANC/FBX) Einar Jarmund, Architect, Oslo, Norway (ANC/FBX/JUN) Antony Gormley, Artist, London (ANC) Catherine Griffiths, Graphic Designer, Wellington, New Zeland (ANC/FBX) |
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| Exhibition |
ATTACHMENTS, an exhibition organized at the International Gallery of Contemporary Art and the Alaska Design Forum. Featured artists: Annie Aube, Chelsea Bailey, Lisa Ballard, Christina Barber, Kathryn Carovano, Don Decker, Hal Gage, Lisa Gray, Stephen Gray, Jessie Hedden, Denise Heimel, Ted Herlinger, Garry Kaulitz, Sonya Kelliher-Combs, Keren Lowell, Les Matz, Garry Mealor, Scott McDonald, Baggs McKelvey, Brenda Roper, Wanda Seamster, Michele Suchland, Sheila Wyne and an installation by Klaus Mayer and Petra Sattler-Smith |
| Tour | Shades of Green Architecture Tour
Part of the Site/Sight Series sponsored by the International Gallery of Contemporary Art and the Alaska Design Forum |
| Workshop |
Interactive Media, Multimedia Installations, Sound & Video Charlie Morrow, Charlie Morrow Productions Donna Lawrence, Donna Lawrence Productions |
2006 – 2007
| PROCESS Lecture Series |
Stanley Saitowitz, Architect, San Francisco (ANC/FBX/JUN) Charles Anderson, Landscape Designer, Seattle (ANC/FBX) Rachel Perry Welty, Artist, Boston, Massachusetts (ANC/FBX/JUN) Frank Barkow, Architect, Berlin, Germany (ANC/FBX/JUN) Tim Eliassen, Product Designer, Westford, Massachusetts (ANC/FBX) MY Studio/Howeler + Yoon Architecture, Architect, Cambridge, Massachusetts (ANC/FBX) Aesthetic Apparatus, Graphic Designers, Minneapolis, Minnesota (ANC/FBX) Joep Van Lieshout, Architect/Designer/Artist, Rotterdam (ANC/FBX/JUN) May: Fairbanks Board Retreat and Open House |
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2005 – 2006
| ROOTS Lecture Series |
ADF is recognized as a recipient of Mayor’s Arts Awards 2006 Lucy Lippard cultural critic, New Mexico (ANC/FBX/JUN) Ed Fella graphic designer, California (ANC/FBX) Goro Hirata artist, Japan (ANC/FBX/JUN) Marlon Blackwell architect, arkansas (ANC/FBX) Ed Crittenden architect, anchorage (ANC) Robert France landscape planner, boston (ANC/FBX/JUN) Angelo Bucci architect, brazil (ANC/FBX) David Adjaye architect, london (ANC/FBX/JUN) May-August: Juneau Board Retreat and Open House |
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| Book & Exhibition | QUONSET: Metal Living for a Modern Age. Click here for QUONSET project website. |
2004 – 2005
| 24/7 Lecture Series |
Ben Rubin, multimedia artist, New York City (ANC/FBX/JUN) Matthias Loebermann, architect, Nuernberg Germany (ANC/FBX) LOT-EK, architects, New York City (ANC/FBX) Tom Henaghan, art critic, Sydney Australia (ANC/FBX/JUN) Stefan Sagmeister, Graphic Designer, New York City Jennifer Siegal, Architect, Venice, California Richard Horden, Architect, London, United Kingdom Third Tuesday – “Museum Expansion”, presentation/discussion Yves Behar, Product / Industrial Designer, San Francisco, California |
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2003 – 2004
| SKIN Lecture Series |
Bill Morrison (ANC/FBX/JUN) Julie Bargmann, landscape architect, Charlottesville VA (ANC/FBX/JUN) Pierre Thibault, architect, Quebec City Canada (ANC/FBX/JUN) Christopher Sharples (ANC/FBX/JUN) Dave Ellis, graphic design, London (ANC/FBX) Karim Rashid, product design, New York City (ANC/FBX) David Chipperfield, architect, London (ANC/FBX) Werner Sobek, structural engineer, Stuttgart Germany (ANC/FBX) |
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| Workshops | Fran Reed, Sonya Kelliher-Combs |
2002 – 2003
| Lecture Series |
Peter Zumthor (ANC/FBX) Shigeru Ban (ANC/FBX) Steve Badanes (KTN) Jennifer Sterling (ANC/FBX) Casagrande & Rintala (ANC/FBX/JUN) Shim & Sutcliffe (ANC/FBX/JUN) Jessica Stockholder (ANC/FBX/JUN) |
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| Workshop | Peter Zumthor |
| Artists in Residence | Casagrande & Rintala |
| Installation |
Redrum. A site-specific installation by Marco Casagrande & Sami Rintala, commissioned by ADF in collaboration with the Anchorage Museum and UAA Sculpture Department. |
2001 – 2002
| Lecture Series |
Perimetre-Flux (ANC/FBX) Vincent James (ANC/FBX) James Carpenter (ANC/FBX/JUN) Diavolo Dance Theater (ANC/FBX) Rick Joy (ANC/FBX) James Wines – SITE (ANC/FBX/JUN) Bill Johnson (ANC/FBX/JUN) |
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| Consulting Session |
QUONSET: The Ongoing History of Quonset Huts in Alaska. Donald Albrecht, Trevor Boddy, Chris Chiei, Julie Decker, Charles Mobley, Shelah Shanks, Louis Santoro, Clark Yerrington |
| Symposium | NEA Design Talk with Mark Robbins |
| Installation |
Urban Memory Forest. A site-specific installation by Klaus Mayer and Petra Sattler-Smith, produced by ADF in collaboration with the UAA Look Again project. |
2000 – 2001
| Lecture Series |
Karen Finley, performance artist, New York (ANC/FBX) Dissing & Weitling, architect, Denmark (ANC/FBX/JUN) Juhani Pallasmaa, architect, Finland (ANC/FBX/JUN) Moriyama & Teshima, architect, Toronto (ANC/FBX) Robert Murase, landscape architect, Oregon (ANC/FBX) Susan Joy Share, artist, Alaska/New York (ANC/FBX) Asymptote Architecture (ANC/FBX) Shawn Skabelund, sculptor, Arizona (ANC/FBX/JUN) |
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| Workshops | Juhani Pallasmaaz, Susan Joy Share |
| Exhibitions |
Alvar Aalto Exhibition: Timeless Expressions, in conjunction with the Alvar Aalto Foundation in Helsinki, at the Loussac Library, Anchorage.
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| Artist in Residence |
Shawn Skabelund in conjunction with Bunnell Street Gallery, Homer, Alaska.
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1999 – 2000
| Lecture Series |
Hamish Fulton, British photographer, writer, artist (ANC/FBX) Peter Cardew, architect, Vancouver (ANC/FBX) Tod Williams / Billie Tsien, architects, New York (ANC/FBX) Amy Knoles, California performance artist (ANC/FBX) Studio Granda, architects, Iceland (ANC/FBX/YVR) Kathryn Gustafson, landscape architect, France (ANC/FBX) |
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| Workshops | Amy Knoles, Peter Cardew |
| Exhibitions |
Hamish Fulton: Changesin conjunction with the Anchorage Museum of History and Art Peter Cardew: Ordinary Buildings in conjunction with the UAA Canadian Studies Program |
1998 – 1999
| Lecture Series |
Glenn Murcutt, Australian architect (ANC/FBX/SEA) Jan Henriksson, Swedish architect and professor (ANC/FBX/SEA) MASS Ensemble, Chicago musicians, dancers, visual artists (ANC/FBX) The Art Guys (ANC/FBX) Cornelia Oberlander, Canadian landscape architect (ANC/FBX) Steven Erlich, California architect (ANC/FBX/SEA) |
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| Workshops | Glenn Murcutt, Jan Henriksson, Mass Ensemble, Cornelia Oberlander |
1997 – 1998
| Lecture Series |
Antoine Predock, Architect (ANC/FBX) XSIGHT!, Performance Troupe (ANC/FBX) Brian MacKay-Lyons, Architect (ANC/FBX) James Cutler, Architect (ANC/FBX) frogdesign (ANC/FBX) Ackerman & Raff, Architects (ANC/FBX/SEA) |
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| Workshops |
Designing with Latitude: Brian MacKay-Lyons, Hellmut Raff with Petra Sattler-Smith and Klaus Mayer |
1996 – 1997
| Lecture Series |
Will Bruder, architect, Phoenix (ANC) Mary-Ann Ray, architect, Los Angeles (ANC) Fernau & Hartman, architects, Berkeley (ANC) Peter Eisenman, architect, New York (ANC) Rinde Eckert, performance artist, Los Angeles (ANC) Jenny Holzer, visual artist, New York (ANC) |
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| Workshops |
To House Alaska: Will Bruder, Mary-Ann Ray, Fernau & Hartman, Mike Mense, Elise Huggins |
1995 – 1996
| Lecture Series: Changing Perspective |
Merrill Elam, architect, Atlanta (ANC) John Patkau, architect, Vancouver (ANC) James Burnett, landscape architect, Houston (ANC) Jet Construction, architects, installation artist, Seattle (ANC) Andy Goldsworthy, environmental artist, Britain (ANC) |
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| Artist in Residence | Andy Goldsworthy |
| Exhibitions |
Andy Goldsworthy in Alaska, in conjunction with the Anchorage Museum of History and Art Hot Plate Cold Plate Mud Map Snow Blind Bladder-Bladder by Jet Construction, commissioned by the Alaska Design Forum and presented with Out North. |
| Publication |
Alaska Works by Andy Goldsworthy, collaboration with the Anchorage Museum and Alaska Design Forum. |
1994 – 1995
| Lecture Series: International Solutions |
Robert Magne, architect, Montreal (ANC) George Kunihiro, architect, Japan (ANC) Chris Burden, visual artist, performance artist (ANC) Mary Miss, visual artist, New York (ANC) California E.A.R. Unit, performance artist, Los Angeles (ANC) |
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| Workshop | Mary Miss |
| Competition |
Imagine Anchorage, An open competition to present visions of Anchorage. |
| Exhibition |
Imagine Anchorage, at the Anchorage Museum of History and Art |
| Lecture/ Performance |
California E.A.R. Unit, at the Alaska Center for the Performing Arts |
1993 – 1994
| Lecture Series: A Multi-Disciplinary Approach to the Built Environment |
Steve Badanes, designer builder, New Jersey (ANC) Ned Vaivoda, architect, Portland (ANC) James Turell, environmental artist, Flagstaff (ANC) David Ireland, artist, San Francisco (ANC) Carol Johnson landscape architect, Boston (in conjunction with the International Winter Cities Conference) (ANC) Mehmet Sander performance artist, Los Angeles (ANC) |
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| Workshops | James Turell, David Ireland |
| Performance |
Mehmet Sanders Dance Company, at the Alaska Center for the Performing Arts |
1992 – 1993
| Lecture Series: Contemporary West Coast Design |
William Turnbull, architect, San Francisco (ANC) Craig Hodgetts & Ming Fung, architects, Los Angeles (ANC) Aaron Betsky, architectural curator, writer, critic, The Netherlands (ANC) Holt Hinshaw Jones, architects, San Francisco (ANC) Eric Owen Moss, architect, Los Angeles (ANC) Thom Mayne, architect, Los Angeles (ANC) |
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| Exhibitions |
Frank Gehry Furnitureat the Anchorage Museum of History and Art Shelter at Stonington Gallery. The built shelter and competition entries |
| Competition |
Shelter, a one-day charrette to design and build a homeless shelter. Jurors: Thom Mayne and Ed Crittenden |
| Film |
The World of Charles and Ray Eames, Film night at Cyrano’s |
Key to lecture locations:
ANC=Anchorage
FBX=Fairbanks
JUN=Juneau
KTN=Ketchikan
SEA=Seattle
YVR=Vancouver


The Alaska Design Forum is supported, in part, by the Alaska State Council on the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency, and the Municipality of Anchorage.