At the gallery opening May 12, art lovers sipped wine and munched on chips and salsa. They soaked in a black-and-white winterscape by Anchorage photographer Hal Gage and read about Ron Senungetuk’s beginnings as a young artist at the Bureau of Indian Affairs school in Sitka.

They shared reactions, even debated a little about the artworks’ merits. And they did it all in cyberspace. The Rasmuson Foundation Gallery of Alaskan Artists — a wall-less, three-story gallery on top of a virtual mountain — marks the first time an arts-related Anchorage organization has established a presence in Second Life, an alternate, Internet-based reality.

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