Anchorage Museum exhibition offers a transcendent vision of “Women of the North”
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“Lena & Pete with the Laundry & the Meat,” by Kathryn C. Mallory (b. 1962), 2007. ANCHORAGE MUSEUM, RASMUSON FOUNDATION ART ACQUISITION FUND, 2008.20.4
By Laureli Ivanoff
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got downtown and took 30 steps from the car that day, forgetting to pay for parking. I was already a bit late because, like the stereotypical “villager,” I misjudged traffic. A bit anxious, I walked back with my credit card and rented the tiny spot of land to leave my rental car. I had two hours. I wouldn’t get a ticket this time. So I reset. I took deep breaths and walked. Walking to the Anchorage Museum, it was one of those calm, clear, and sunny spring Alaska days. The kind of day some of us in Unalakleet beg the weather to wake up to. “Please let it be sunny A L A S K A H U M A N ITI E S F O R U M S P R I N G 20 21
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