Francesca Du Brock

Francesca Du Brock is the Chief Curator at the Anchorage Museum. Her curatorial practice is informed by her background as an artist and educator and is grounded in social engagement, place-based storytelling, environmental justice, and experimental museum practice. Du Brock’s recent exhibitions have focused on thematic topics of care, climate, representation, Northern feminisms, vernacular culture, and immigration, and include Dog Show (2025); How to Survive (2023); Black Lives in Alaska: Journey, Justice Joy (2021); Extra Tough: Women of the North (2020); and What, Why How We Eat (2018). In 2020, she established the Museum’s Virtual Artist Residency program, which continues to provide unrestricted support to artists, sharing process and behind-the-scenes insights into their lives and practices.

Du Brock is the editor of How to Survive: Care and the Climate Crisis (Hirmer, 2025), and has published articles and interviews in Exhibition journal, Craft Quarterly, Smithsonian Folklife Magazine, and the Anchorage Museum’s Chattermarks journal. Born and raised in Alaska on Dena’ina Ełnena, she holds a BA in Art History from Bowdoin College, an MFA from the San Francisco Arts Institute, and an M.Ed from Harvard’s Graduate School of Education.

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