King crabs in a crab pot. (Photo by allyhook/Flickr) Mitch Borden/KMXT On this week’s Talk of the Rock, Dana Haynes, the Kodiak Chamber of Commerce community relations director, and Toby Sullivan, the executive director of the Kodiak Maritime Museum, chat with KMXT’s Mitch Borden about this year’s Kodiak Crab Fest. Their conversation ranges from Crab Fest events, Kodiak’s relationship with crabbing, …
Read More »Alutiiq Museum Project Specialist Now Gallery Manager
Kayla Desroches/KMXT An Alutiiq Museum employee is switching over to a new position at the store front. Kodiak local Rebecca Pruitt has been a project specialist at the museum for about four years, supporting the programs the Alutiiq Museum was able to provide through various grants it won. She also sometimes filled in at the storefront at the museum entrance. …
Read More »Chamber of Commerce Fills Community Relations Director Position
Dana Haynes. Courtesy of Haynes Kayla Desroches/KMXT The Chamber of Commerce has hired someone to fill the position of community relations director, and it’s the Alutiiq Museum’s former gallery manager. Dana Haynes takes over from Stephanie DeLaGarza. In her new role, Haynes will put together local political forums, organize events like Crab Fest, and serve as a liaison between local …
Read More »Grant Funds How to Survive an Apocalypse and Other Museum Activities
Kayla Desroches/KMXT The Alutiiq Museum received a grant of more than $52,000 dollars to engage the public in learning opportunities. Staff wanted to attract new members to the museum, says gallery manager Dana Haynes, and doing that involved program development. “We did kind of a lot of experimenting with different types of programs we could put on, different ways of …
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