EP 043 with Julie Decker

Crude Conversations

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Society & Culture

4.9 • 152 Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2019

⏱️ 60 minutes

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In this episode, Cody has a conversation with Julie Decker, the Director and CEO of The Anchorage Museum. When she took the job, Julie made a radical shift in the way museums typically function. Rather than just collecting and displaying artifacts, she decided to transform the Anchorage Museum into a living museum, focused on local issues by examining present themes in order to look at Alaska's cultures and traditions in a contemporary way. Ultimately, this shift was meant to answer one fundamental question: how does the museum and its network make Alaska a better place? Julie is uniquely qualified for the position she's in, having grown up around her dad Don Decker, a prominent Alaskan artist whose work goes back to the '70s. When she was a kid, she watched as he did the artist thing—struggle and appreciate the creative process and then learn to let his art exist outside of himself. She understands this dance between the indefinable creative process and its payoff because she's an artist as well. Today, she talks about how she finds things like the sound of pencil on paper soothing because of what it represents: a quiet and contemplative meditation.

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0:00.0	Welcome to this week's episode. In this one, I have a conversation with Julie Decker, the director and CEO of the Anchorage Museum.
0:08.0	When she took the job, Julie made a radical shift in the way museums typically function. Rather than just
0:14.3	collecting and displaying artifacts, she decided to transform the Anchorage
0:17.9	Museum into a living museum focused on local issues by examining present themes in order to look at Alaska's
0:25.1	cultures and traditions in a contemporary way. Ultimately, this shift was meant to
0:30.2	answer one fundamental question. How does the museum and its network make Alaska a better place?
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1:25.0	Okay, back to Julie Decker. Julie is uniquely qualified for the position she's in,
1:28.0	having grown up around her dad, Don Decker,
1:31.0	a prominent Alaskan artist whose work goes back to the 70s.
1:34.4	When she was a kid, she watched as he did the artist thing,
1:37.7	struggle and appreciate the creative process, and then learn to let his art
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