An Amazing Collaboration that is “Out of this World”!

The Alaska Center for the Performing Arts, the Anchorage School District, the Anchorage Symphony Orchestra (ASO) and the incredibly talented astronomer and visual artist Jose Francisco Salgado, PhD came together on Wednesday night to provide a three hour Partners in Education (PIE) training at the Center. Enthralled teachers interacted with the nationally renowned Dr. Salgado as he instructed them on ways to use photography to teach science, math, history, music and art.

PIE Director Julie Millington said, “Dr. Salgado loves to spread his knowledge and enthusiasm of science with teachers through one-on-one hands-on sessions. Teachers learned a step-by-step method of time-lapse photography using simple objects.  He shared his technique of matching classical music works with NASA photographs. The hours went by in a flash.”

We are extremely grateful to the ASO for sponsoring Dr. Salgado’s training at the January PIE program. The ASO is proudly collaborating with Emmy-nominated astronomer/visual artist Dr. Jose Francisco Salgado from the Adler Planetarium in Chicago as they present his awe-inspiring video accompaniment to "The Planets." Salgado is Executive Director of KV 265, a non-profit organization whose mission is the communication of science through art.

Don’t miss “Out of this World” Saturday at 8:00pm (sold out) and Sunday at 4pm at the Atwood Concert Hall.