Photos: All Alaska Juried Show, 'Rarefied Light' and 'It's All Material' at the Museum

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A visitor admires the Rarefied Light show at the Anchorage Museum on Wednesday, November 12, 2014.

The Anchorage Museum opened three notable exhibits on Nov. 7: the All Alaska Juried Art Show, considered the most important juried art show in the state, the statewide "Rarefied Light" photo competition and a show about Alaska craft materials.

Cody Swanson won the $1,000 top prize in the current All Alaska Juried Art Exhibition with two surreal mixed-media landscapes. But how he created the pieces may be as intriguing as the artworks themselves.

"Beluga Point Ferris Wheel" and "Fire Island Crossing" began as photographs of the Anchorage landmarks, but they weren't taken with a familiar Canon or Nikon, Swanson said. "(They) were made using a pinhole camera that I constructed from a cast of my head."

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