At first glance, there's not much in common between two exhibits opening Friday at the Anchorage Museum. Tlingit artist Preston Singletary's "Echoes, Fire and Shadows" is a collection of elegantly crafted, blown-glass pieces that interpret Alaska Native myths in a modern medium and blends them with other indigenous cultures from around the world. Across a hallway, photographer Tim Remick's collection "After: Portraits from Denali" features 5-foot tall, high-definition photographs of climbers moments after they stumble into Denali's base camp, tired, stressed and dehydrated.

But taken together, there's a strange complement to the two exhibits, especially in their Alaska context -- one captures the beauty and rich cultural history of the state, the other the ruggedness and determination of its peoples. And both are impressive exhibits on their own.