My work is focused on changing the museum through these little pebbles that I'm contributing

with because I don't feel that everyone, not everyone I work with is asking these questions

or wanting to challenge themselves. So I guess I've always been one that like challenging

things and I like being challenged and maybe just seeing that as a skill set that I can

contribute with what part of my skill set can I contribute with?

That was Sherees Gullickson. She's the curator and public sector PhD student in art history

at the Arctic University of Norway. Sherees has a mantra and that is museums are not

neutral. Their institutions of culture and agents of change. This is a relatively new concept

because historically museums have been repositories of antiquities often displaying artifacts

with problematic pasts. This is an issue because without knowing it's past we may revere

certain pieces of art and ignore their origins which could result in perpetuating

problematic ideas. So a lot of Sherees' work is focused on contextualizing classic art

so that it can be used as a tool for change. So here she is, Sherees Gullickson.

Welcome to chatter marks. A podcast of the Anchorage Museum dedicated to exploring Alaska's

identity through the creative and critical thinking of ideas. Past, present and future.

My name is Cody Lyska and I'll be your host. Where do you think your passion or your interest

in northern places started? I guess it started back when I mean I'm originally from

from Alaska and I've always been fascinated by this landscape and this place and and for me I

guess I have two homes. There's a Sami artist named Ilovash or Nils Ashlak Volkope and he has a poem

titled My Home is in My Heart and for me I have two homes one in Norway and one in Alaska and for

me being back this year has been amazing because I've reconnected with Alaska and Alaska has always

been in my heart but now it's I feel like I have a stronger relationship again to Alaska and it's

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