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Amy Meissner demonstrates quilt repair. Anchorage Museum

In Alaska, repair culture can include innovation, adapted design, or alternative repair materials, as our location often dictates thinking “outside the box.”

Learn from expert innovators, artists and repairers and consult with them on your own items in need of attention: from beloved textiles and clothing to furniture and household items.

Repair & Reuse workshops aim to transform our culture into one that repairs more readily than it purchases to create a more sustainable community.

Anchorage,
AK
Workshops + Courses
Fiber Metal Mixed Media Wood
Instructors Amy Meissner and Ming Stephens with workshop attendees. Anchorage Museum

Slow down and explore your creative side in a slow craft handwork series this winter.

Slow Craft Mondays, hosted by the Anchorage Weavers and Spinners Guild the first Monday of the month, showcase a chosen technique – from loom weaving and tablet weaving to macrame, felting, knitting, and more.

Join us to explore creative practices and connect with the local crafters, build community, and find a new spark.

Anchorage,
AK
Workshops + Courses
Fiber
Jamie Hirano instructs workshops attendees. Anchorage Museum

Slow down, cozy up, and lean in during this week of workshops and gatherings highlighting slow craft, repair, and handwork.

From stitchwork and knitting to letterpress and repair sessions, join in free skillshares and explore repair techniques and innovative adaptations.

Hosted at Seed Lab, a project of the Anchorage Museum, Slow Craft Week creates a community space of makers in the dark northern winter season for local community to gather, share craft and practice joy.

Anchorage,
AK
Workshops + Courses
Fiber Mixed Media Paper Wood
Anchorage Museum entrance in winter. Credit: Anchorage Museum

The Anchorage Museum is a place of ideas and transformation, narratives and perspectives, and resilient and relevant communities, responsive to a rapidly changing world toward a better future for all.

Our mission is to be a museum for people, place, planet, and potential, in service of a sustainable and equitable North, with creativity and imagination for what is possible.

Located in downtown Anchorage, Alaska, the museum sits on the traditional homeland of the Eklutna Dena’ina and is committed to recognizing and honoring the land, culture, and language of the Dena’ina people.

Anchorage,
AK
Museum
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