Vizual Dog ...

From 1994 to 1999, Seamster wrote and published Vizual Dog, a hardcopy newsletter on visual arts issues in Alaska.  After 1999, occasional issues have been published and made available.  Several monographs on contemporary art history in Anchorage were also published, and are currently being updated.

“[Seamster} has been a powerful contributor to Alaska's contemporary art scene not only through her own work, but through her critical writing.  Since 1994 she has written and published Vizual Dog, a statewide visual art newsletter that brings new, articulate and much-needed critical voices—hers and others—to an Alaska art scene . . . that can become too comfortable and unreflective." Kesler Woodward, UAF Arts Professor Emeritus and Author From Painting Alaska, Alaska Geographic Society, Vol. 27 No. 3, 2000

Seamster has been researching and publishing articles, reviews, essays, and monographs on Alaska art history since 1994.  Below are free, downloadable examples.

By downloading any of the following essays or articles, you are agreeing to acknowledge and cite the source of the text: Vizual Dog ® 2007.  Wanda Seamster.  info@wandaseamster.com
Downloads are free for personal reading or educational purposes.

How to Be a Famous Artist After You’re Dead  Download PDF, 4 pages) 
Pragmatic suggestions for a lasting memory.

No, Really, Who are You?  Download PDF, 1 page)
The importance of consistency of name in an artist’s career

The Artist’s Statement  Download PDF, 3 pages)
A critical look at this perennial part of the solo exhibition & how to improve it.

State of the Art (2005)  Download PDF, 3 pages)
Remarks on the quality of Alaska art and the strengths of its art community.

Open Air, Seriously  Download PDF, 2 pages)
A review of two 2006 exhibitions of plein air, and comments on how to define plein air.

All Alaska Juried Exhibition 1976–2006  Download PDF, 7 pages)
Excerpts from a new draft of a publication about this exhibition series of the Anchorage Museum at the Rasmuson Center.