Participants Calendar
Updated on 3/21/08
Check the public calendar on this site for an updated list of programs and events related to FREEZE.
2008
- March 15
- JPEG images representative of artist's or firm's work emailed to freeze@alaskadesignforum.org for inclusion on FREEZE web site
- August 1
- Initial concepts due from teams. Send to freeze@alaskadesignforum.org. If requesting something outside of general design parameters/provisions, please specify at this time
- September 15
- Travel arrangements made for project participants
- December 10
- Design/Concept Boards due in Anchorage (32x40; 1-2 boards per team) - for exhibition at International Gallery; digital versions of concepts due for posting on web site
- December 30
- Participants arrive in Anchorage
- December 31
- Fire & Ice celebration at Town Square, fireworks downtown, and special New Year's Eve party/reception for project participants and sponsors at Anchorage Museum
2008-2009
- January 1, 2009
- Work begins on Park Strip; materials delivered to site
- December 31 - January 11
- Participation in public events by participants (see calendar)
Key events:
- January 2 @ 5:30 p.m.
- Exhibition opening at International Gallery of Contemporary Art - design/concept boards + work by participating visual artists
- January 4 @ 2 p.m.
- Public presentation at Anchorage Museum where participants present to one another and the public their plans for their installations (10 minutes per team)
- January 5 @ 2 p.m.
- Construction tour of Anchorage Museum expansion designed by David Chipperfield for FREEZE participants
- January 5 @ 5:30 p.m.
- Discussion group at Anchorage Museum related to extreme architecture, the future of architecture, and architecture of emergency--for natural disasters, refugees, and portable architecture for cold-climate or extreme-climate survival and exploration
- January 5 @ 7 p.m.
- Flash Freeze1: Public presentation at Anchorage Museum by visiting and local architects showing their body of work (15 minutes per firm)
- January 6 @ 5:30 p.m.
- Discussion group at Anchorage Museum related to extreme art, the future of art, the role of the artist in contemporary society, what artists can do to find solutions to global problems, and artistic solutions to such things as natural disasters, refugees and cold-climate or extreme-climate survival and exploration
- January 6 @ 7 p.m.
- Flash Freeze 2: Public presentation at Anchorage Museum by visiting artists/designers showing their body of work (15 minutes each)
- January 7 @ 5:30 p.m.
- Discussion group and panel discussion: Women in Art and Architecture
- January 7 @ 7:00 p.m.
- Special lecture presentations by Futurefarmers and Ana Rewakowicz
- January 8 @ 1 p.m.
- Public workshop at Anchorage Museum for high school students and others: Can artists and architects change the world? Creative solutions to world problems, including global warming
- January 9 @ 6 p.m.
- Preview/special tour and reception of projects for donors
- January 10 @ 10 a.m.
- Press conference/interviews with project participants on Park Strip
- January 10 @ noon
- Public opening of FREEZE on the Park Strip
- January 11@ noon
- Discussion group at International Gallery of Contemporary Art related to the role and value of the ephemeral in contemporary art and architecture
- January 11 - 12
- Participants depart from Anchorage
