Out North Contemporary Art House
3800 DeBarr Road
Anchoage, AK 99508

Phone: (907) 279-8099
Fax: (907) 279-8100

URL: www.outnorth.org
Email: art@outnorth.org

The mission of VSA Alaska at Out North is to discover and share cultural explorers whose ideas challenge and inspire our lives; to raise up creative space where people of all cultures, generations and abilities gather and learn; and to champion, through the arts and humanities, people marginalized in our times. For over 25 years, Out North has been the sole outlet in Alaska dedicated to supporting contemporary socially- engaged, content-driven visual, media, literary and live art in our local community and by artists from around the world. Far from remote, Out North has a history of supporting leading-edge artists on their rise to international prominence, and thus sustains a beautifully diverse, highly literate audience community.

Out North invites solo artists and small companies in all performing arts genres to our 99 seat black-box. Two large galleries host 24 month-long visual arts exhibits with support from The Andy Warhol Foundation. Anchorage is home to the second largest film festival in the U.S., which utilizes Out North’s cinema for screenings and filmmaker discovery. While limited to two out-of-state artist residencies per year, Out North hosts playwrights, literary artists and filmmakers for virtual presentations using Skype and a live audience. Artists whose work is content-driven, socially-engaged and matched to the mission are welcome to email Artistic Director Scott Turner Schofield. Artists who forwardly explore or challenge mainstream aesthetics are also encouraged to be in touch. The selection process is informal and ongoing.

House Capacity: 99

Disciplines: Dance, Performance Art, Music, Theatre, Puppetry, Spoken Word, Multi-Discipline