ADF is committed to sponsoring exhibitions and installations throughout the state of Alaska. Many past lecturers have created installations in conjunction with their visits, and ADF takes on original projects as well.

Freeze

FREEZE is an outdoor, winter exhibition, with a coordinating series of public lectures and programs, featuring designers (architects, artists, landscape architects, lighting designers, graphic designers and others) from around the globe working in collaboration to create installations that feature, as primary materials, snow, ice and light - elements that characterize winter in the north.

FREEZE will take place along the Delaney Park Strip in downtown Anchorage in January of 2009. A photo contest and book will extend the project past it's outdoor exhibition.

Quonset

QUONSET: Metal Living for a Modern Age explores the impact of a prefabricated building system on the built environment and culture of post-World War II Alaska. The project consists of a traveling exhibition, a book published by Rizzoli in 2005 and a website, all of which initiated in October 2005.

The exhibition presented narratives, historic and contemporary photos, oral history recordings, video, interactive computer models, drawings, and the display of authentic Quonset huts. It opened at the Anchorage Museum of History and Art on October 16, 2005, and had a three-month run in Anchorage before moving to other venues. A smaller, purely photographic version of the project traveled concurrently to smaller, less accessible venues within Alaska.