SNOW DRAWING EVENT

Don your snowshoes and join Sonja Hinrichsen to create large scale art using snow as the canvas. Hinrichsen is a 2015 artist-in-residence at Denali National Park and Preserve. She has created snow art with community partners all over the world. See her website at: http://www.sonja-hinrichsen.com/

When: Saturday, March 14, 2015; 10:30am

Where: UAF Forestry & Experiment Station

Cost: Free

Best for older teens and adults.

Pre-registration is requested. Register here to indicate your plans to attend and participate on Saturday March 14.

Presented by the National Park Service in partnership with the UA Museum of the North and the UAF Agriculture and Forestry Experiment Station.

WORKSHOP: Preserving Your Family Photos

If you're like many families, you have boxes of slides, prints, video tapes and perhaps reels of film in a closet or basement. They likely contain decades of family memories - irreplaceable memories that are slowly degrading and fading with time. This workshop will give you practical strategies and skills for preserving, restoring and displaying your images so that they will be around for your great-grandchildren to enjoy. Participants are encouraged to bring samples of their prints, negatives, tapes and films for evaluation.

When: Thursday, March 26, 2015; 5-7pm

Where: UA Museum of the North Creativity Lab

Cost: $25 non-members, $20 members

Course designed for adults. Open to 15 years and up.

Pre-registration is required. Register online here.

Public Domain Image: FDR and Family at Campobello, 1913 (NARA). National Archives.

OLLI CLASSES AT THE MUSEUM, 2015

The Science of Museum Collections
Enjoy a museum sampler! Discover collections and the science behind them. Explore a new subject each week. Curators and collections managers will share interesting facts about specimens they are charged with collecting, cataloging, conserving, and researching. Featured this session will be mammals, insects, fishes, genomic resources (DNA and frozen tissues), and earth sciences (fossils and dinosaurs). Included will be tours of the UA Museum of the North collections and laboratory spaces plus hands-on activities presented by museum education. Enrollment limited to 16.

Instructors: Aren Gunderson, UAMN Mammals Collections Manager (Mar.4); Derek Sikes, UAMN Curator of Insects (Mar.11); Kyndall Hildebrandt, UAMN Genomic Resources Collections Manager (Mar.18); Andrés Lopez, UAMN Curator of Fishes (Mar.25); Patrick Druckenmiller, UAMN Curator of Earth Sciences (Apr.1); Jennifer Arseneau, UAMN Manager of Education & Public Programs

When: Session I + add-on: March 4-April 1, Wednesdays 3-4:30pm

Where: UA Museum of the North Creativity Lab

Preserving Your Photos and Films
Learn about the museum’s film collection and then delve into strategies for preserving and restoring your own slides, prints, videos, and film. Protect and preserve your irreplaceable visual memories for yourself and future generations to enjoy. Bring samples of your prints, negatives, or films for evaluation. Enrollment limited to 15.

Instructor Leonard Kamerling, UAMN Curator of Film and UAF Professor of English, is an award winning documentary filmmaker and specialist in film preservation.

When: Session II (2 dates only): April 9 and April 16, Thursdays 3-4:30pm

Where: UA Museum of the North Creativity Lab

Cost: OLLI is a non-credited educational program for adults age 50+ and their companions. Membership is $35 per person, valid for the calendar year, and classe registration fees are $15 per class or $150 for unlimited classes for the calendar year.

Register through OLLI: online registration opens in February 2015, www.uaf.edu/olli. For more information, call (907) 474-6607 or email the OLLI office at UAF-OLLI@alaska.edu .

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