Chatter Marks

EP 004 This is Dena’ina ełnena: Understanding histories, land and language with Anchorage Museum curator Aaron Leggett

Aaron Leggett is the president of the Native Village of Eklutna. He is also the Senior Curator or Alaska History and Indigenous Culture at the Anchorage Museum. In both of those responsibilities, he’s been a champion and an educator of the Alaskan identity. He’s found that critical thinking is key to understanding how Alaska’s history can help us navigate the present and the future. 
In this conversation, Aaron talks about his responsibilities as the president of Eklutna and how the Museum fits into the larger conversation surrounding Alaska Native equity.

EP 003 Recording stories of life at the poles with photographer and writer Acacia Johnson

Acacia Johnson is a photographer focused on human relationships to the environment. She spent most of her twenties traveling around Scandinavia and the polar regions, working on ships. Today, she has over 50 expeditions to the Arctic and Antarctica.
In Part 2 of this conversation, Acacia talks about creating a record of stories, of people and place. About how, through photography, she has the opportunity to start important conversations about polar regions—about the people who live there, climate change and, ultimately, the lessons we can learn from it.

EP 002 A conversation with writer and photographer Acacia Johnson, at home in Alaska and at the northernmost and southernmost tips of the world

Acacia Johnson is a photographer focused on human relationships to the environment. She spent most of her twenties traveling around Scandinavia and the polar regions, working on ships. Today, she has over 50 expeditions to the Arctic and Antarctica. 
In part one of this conversation, she talks about subverting the stereotype of what it means to be an explorer. And that means reframing the image of a man conquering landscapes to an image of a symbiotic relationship between people and the landscapes they live on.

EP 001 Design with purpose: A conversation with graphic designer Sebastian Garber

Sebastian Garber is the Senior Designer at the Anchorage Museum and he is currently working on designing a typeface that includes Alaska Native languages. It will be a typeface stripped of geographic references and it will encompass all the necessary diacritic. Diacritics are accent marks that indicate pronunciation. And when finished, it will become the official font of the Anchorage Museum.