Francesca Du Brock, chief curator of the Anchorage Museum, has been awarded the 2025 Marica Vilcek Prize in Art History for her impactful work in the field. The prize recognizes Du Brock's contributions to the museum, her scholarship, and her overall impact on the arts and culture community.
Anchorage's Francesca Du Brock was recently awarded the 2025 Marica Vilcek Prize in Art History. The Anchorage Museum ’s chief curator recently learned she was the recipient of the Marica Vilcek Prize in Art History.“To be quite honest, actually I thought it was a scam when they called me, because I was so stunned,” Du Brock said. “And I didn’t really understand how they would have known about the work that we’re doing in Alaska.
Du Brock has been in her current position at the museum since 2018 and before that was a guest curator in 2017., which just wrapped up last month. It included contributions by 16 women and nonbinary artists and Alaska Native cultural belongings. The project considered “the idea of survival through hope and care, and asks how gestures and practices of love, protection, nurturing, and sharing can help us face the climate crisis.
The Vilcek Foundation “raises awareness of immigrant contributions in the United States and fosters appreciation of the arts and sciences,” according to its website. “I‘m always learning more about it,” she said. “It just feels like it’s the work of a lifetime. There’s always new and exciting things that me and my team are interested in focusing on, or things that we haven’t focused on in the past and people that we want to work with and stories that we want to highlight.”
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