Join us for a presentation and Q&A with Anchorage Museum virtual artist-in-residence Janna Avner. Avner will answer questions about her art-making practice and do a live demonstration. Audience questions and interaction are encouraged. To attend, RSVP on the Anchorage Museum's Crowdcast page. Free.

Janna Avner is a contemporary Koyukon Athabascan painter and interdisciplinary artist whose work explores perception, identity, and landscape through innovative use of light, projection, painting, and technology. Avner was the 2023 Eric and Barbara Dobkin Native Artist Fellow at the School for Advanced Research, where she developed projects combining painting, holograms, and projection mapping. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Yale University and a Master of Visual Art from California State University, Northridge. She is a co-founder of FEMMEBIT, an artist organization and collective that presents programs, screenings, and exhibitions of video and new media work from the Los Angeles area.

Virtual Artist in Residence: Janna Avner