A visual archive featuring community images, artwork, and historical materials related to one glacier and its surroundings.
The archive will exist as a collective memory of place through visuals that explore human and more-than-human connections with C'ulc'ena' Łuu' / Gulkana Glacier. The visual archive is currently in development and will include community contributions, artwork, and archival materials that will be shared online in late 2026.
Gulkana is a collaborative project by visual artist Klara Maisch and interdisciplinary artist and researcher Katie Ione Craney.
Interested in engaging with this
community-informed project?
We will share updates and a public call for submitting visuals, memories, and other contributions for the community archive in early 2026 on this website and via social media: @decipheringchange / @klaramaisch
Or let us know you’re interested in being notified via email when community submissions open, and send us ideas, questions, or anonymous feedback at any time with this general interest form.
Klara Maisch is visual artist whose place-based paintings respond to glacial, Arctic, and boreal environments through immersive fieldwork and collaboration. She is currently working with new visual mediums to share stories from the North that center firsthand knowledge and sensory experiences.
Katie Ione Craney is an interdisciplinary artist and MA candidate in Arctic & Northern Studies program at the University of Alaska-Fairbanks. For her degree, she curated an international exhibition focused on dis/comfort as a tool to interrogate how the Circumpolar North is viewed, felt, and imagined.
