2025 WAAC Annual Meeting
Anchorage Museum Anchorage, AK 17 - 20 September 2025 17th- Optional Tours & Volunteer Opportunities 18th- Presentations 8:00-5:00 & Evening Reception/WAAC Party 6:00-8:30 19th- Presentations 8:00-2:45 & Optional Tour: AK Native Heritage Center: 3-5:15 20th- Optional Wildlife Tour 8am-8pm
Time & Location
Sep 17, 2025, 8:00 AM AKDT – Sep 20, 2025, 8:00 PM AKDT
Anchorage Museum, 625 C St, Anchorage, AK 99501, USA
About the event
The 51st annual meeting of the Western Association for Art Conservation will be held at the Anchorage Museum in downtown Anchorage. A short walk to restaurants, hotels, public art, and museums such as the Alaska Veterans Museum and Alaska Law Enforcement Museum.
The Anchorage 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. The Anchorage Museum tells the story of Alaska and the North – a story that weaves together social, political, cultural, scientific, historic and artistic threads. Explore the full diversity of Alaska Native cultures, including masterworks of Alaska Native art and design from the collections of the Smithsonian Institution. Get hands-on in the science-themed Discovery Center, and experience the night sky, including the aurora borealis, in the Thomas Planetarium.
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Schedule
6 hoursCommunity Outreach Opportunity 1
Native Village of ChickaloonOutreach
6 hoursCommunity Outreach Opportunity 2
Wasilla MuseumOutreach
Tickets
2025 WAAC Annual Meeting
Conference Presentations: Thursday September 18 • 8:30am - 5:00pm: Anchorage Museum Evening Reception: Thursday, September 18 • 6:000m -8:30pm: Anchorage Museum Conference Presentations: Friday, September 19 • 8:30an - 2:45pm: Anchorage Museum Late Fees Start September 10th!
From $80.00 to $150.00
$110.00
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$150.00
Salmon Skin Sewing
Workshop: 10:00 AM - 12:30 PM, Anchorage Museum Join artist and activist Rochelle Adams and her daughter Amaya for a class on salmon skin sewing. They will share the importance of salmon to the Gwich’in and how to sew fish skin. In this workshop you will learn to sew salmon skin and beading, creating a pair of earrings or a key chain. Materials provided.
$50.00
Workshop Baling Strap Weaving
10:00 AM - 2:00 PM, Seed Lab Since 2012, Hawai'i-based artist Gaye Chan has foraged plastic baling straps and developed a weaving technique to make containers while learning a basic skill practiced around the globe: basket making. Join us for a basket-making workshop led by Museum staff member Rebecca Pottebaum trained in Chan’s technique.
$25.00
Tour - Eklutna Village
3:00 - 6:00 PM Eklutna Village and Dena’ina Placenames Project - Limited space, must select to reserve spot on bus.
$0.00
Tour Guest - Eklutna Village
3:00 - 6:00 PM Eklutna Village and Dena’ina Placenames Project - Limited space, must select to reserve spot on bus. Tour introducing the Indigenous Place Names Project and the village of Eklutna. Aaron Leggett will lead the tour. He is the President/Chief of the Native Village of Eklutna, and is also Senior Curator of Alaska History and Culture at the Anchorage Museum.
$25.00
Thursday Box Lunch
You will receive an email with full meal descriptions and asking for your meal preference. All meals come with chips, cookie, and drink. Meal options are: Crush Cobb Salad; Indian Bowl (vegan on request); Harissa Carrot Bowl (Vegan); Thai Bowl; Turkey Brie Sandwich; Veggie Sandwich; or Pastrami Sandwich.
$22.00
Reception/WAAC Party
6:00 PM - 8:30 PM Anchorage Museum - Food and one drink included Join your fellow WAAC attendees for an evening of fun. Sign up to view a planetarium show to kick off your evening, or check out the permanent galleries before going to the Muse restaurant for heavy appetizers and drinks. Planetarium show, A Place Like No Other: Take a journey to the remote wild places of Alaska to observe the iconic animals and landscapes that define the state.
$0.00
Guest for Reception
6:00 PM - 8:30 PM Anchorage Museum - Food and one drink included Join your fellow WAAC attendees for an evening of fun. Sign up to view a planetarium show to kick off your evening, or check out the permanent galleries before going to the Muse restaurant for heavy appetizers and drinks. Planetarium show, A Place Like No Other: Take a journey to the remote wild places of Alaska to observe the iconic animals and landscapes that define the state.
$35.00
Friday Box Lunch
You will receive an email with full meal descriptions and asking for your meal preference. All meals come with chips, cookie, and drink. Meal options are: Crush Cobb Salad; Indian Bowl (vegan on request); Harissa Carrot Bowl (Vegan); Thai Bowl; Turkey Brie Sandwich; Veggie Sandwich; or Pastrami Sandwich.
$22.00
Alaska Native Heritage Center
Curator of Collections and Exhibitions Angela Demma will lead the tour, followed by free explore time. Learn from dynamic newly opened (May 2025) exhibits in the Hall of Cultures, including a historic boarding school exhibit Education in Alaska, Nats’itsatna (Our Ancestors) exhibit which shares the movement to ethically return Ancestral belongings to their homelands, and Dena’ina Quht’ana (Our Local People of a Place) exhibit. Transportation will be arranged once final numbers are determined.
$10.00
Wildlife and Tunagain Arm Tour
Hop on a bus with Adam Baldwin, Deputy Director for Visitor Engagement, citizen historian, and extraordinary tour guide. As you travel along the coast south, learn about the history of the region along with local interesting facts. Once in Seward, board a 4-hour wildlife cruise with Major Marine Tours. See wildlife such as orca whales, humpback whales, Stellar sea lions, harbor seals, puffins, eagles, and many seabirds. You will also see glaciers and the changing coastal landscape.
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