Discover the north. Explore Arctic collections in galleries, try a collection challenge scavenger hunt, enjoy hands-on activities in the Family Room, and add to our collaborative Arctic landscape art wall. Included with museum admission. […]
Discover museum collections. Drop in to learn about genetic resources and DNA work at the museum plus ask questions of the collections manager. Included with museum admission. […]
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Discover museum collections. Drop in to view cultural and historic items and meet the collections manager. Included with museum admission. […]
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Discover museum collections. Drop in to meet the herbarium curator, see plant specimens, and explore Arctic berries. Included with museum admission. […]
Discover museum collections. Drop in to see mammal specimens and talk with mammalogists. Included with museum admission. […]
David L. Arnold, Ph.D. Retired Academic Climatologist & Interim Alaska Geographic-Murie Science & Learning Center Education Program Director Understanding historical variation and change within our global climate system since the advent of Earth’s modern atmosphere 400 million years ago provides an effective context within which to view modern climatic warming during the recent Holocene epoch. […]
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Michael Castellini, a UAF professor emeritus, will lead a pre-festival discussion around some of Arctic Fest’s themes. Other participants include Terry Chapin (ecologist, author, UAF professor emeritus), Da-ka-xeen Mehner (UAF art professor, director of the Native Art Center), Enei Begaye (Native Movement leader), Kristin Timm (science and environmental communication researcher), Bruno Grunau (NREL Cold Climate […]
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The UAF Graduate School presents graduate students describing their thesis work in three fast, funny, and educational minutes! Free admission. […]
Featuring readings by writers of the “In a Time of Change: Boreal Forest Stories” project: Susan Campbell Daryl Farmer Carolyn Kremers Debbie Clarke Moderow Jeremy Pataky Caitlin Scarano Brody Lane Shappell Literary reading director: Daryl Farmer Embark on a foray into the forest with the cross-disciplinary creators of In a Time of Change (ITOC): Boreal […]
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Join The Folk School to make puppets and masks from cardboard and recycled material to bring to the Arctic Fest Puppet Parade on Saturday, Sept. 3, at Pioneer Park starting at 2 p.m. We’ll have three open studio times prior to Arctic Fest to build smaller and larger cardboard masks and puppets around the theme […]
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Contact information
Arctic Fest Steering Committee
Anne Biberman
Former executive director, Fairbanks Concert Association
Elisabeth Balster Dabney
Interim executive director, Northern Alaska Environmental Center
Mary Beth Leigh
Professor of microbiology and arts-humanities-science integration, University of Alaska Fairbanks Institute of Arctic Biology
Arctic Fest acknowledges that the festival will take place on the unceded lands of the Lower Tanana Dene peoples. We pay our respects to elders past, present and emerging, and to their ongoing stewardship of their ancestral lands and waters.
