Ice Cores, Transluscent Truths from the West Antarctic Ice Sheet

早期职业艺术家安娜·麦基提议在美国国家科学基金会资助的WAIS Divide Ice Core项目的野外夏令营呆两周，这是一个深度冰芯，将提供有史以来最详细的大气条件记录之一。她对田野工作和风景的素描和照片将被用来创作一系列当代蚀刻和素描。这幅作品将为南极探险早期的图形艺术增添丰富的传统。这位艺术家将创建这些图像的展览目录，并撰写一篇文章，描述她的经历、科学研究及其对气候变化故事的贡献。作为项目的一部分，她将研究各种隐喻和视觉主题，包括冰芯的美学；记忆(冰芯中大气气体的存在作为行星记忆的存在)；规模、地点和时间；平行地点(对比2万年前西南极冰盖和她所在的普吉特湾盆地的条件)；以及对环境意识和理解的贡献她将努力为她的项目带来更广泛的影响，她将在西雅图各地的图书馆、高中、课后项目和一所艺术学校发表演讲。拟议中的画廊展览和演示将在整个图书馆系统、艺术组织和西雅图有线电视频道的艺术节目上做广告。她还与市中心一名公立中学的科学教师合作，开发了一个与他们的环境研究课程相协调的多学科演示文稿，最终可以与其他学校分享。她还将维护一本互联网期刊，记录她的南极洲之旅，以及在冰和WAIS Divide实地活动中工作的挑战，以便在国内外分享艺术品及其背景。她还计划与TechREACH合作，这是一个由NSF资助的教育项目，面向华盛顿各地的高危中学生。

Early career artist Anna McKee proposes to spend two weeks at the field camp of the NSF-funded WAIS Divide Ice Core Project, a deep ice core that will provide one of the most detailed records of atmospheric conditions ever obtained. Her sketches and photographs of field work and the landscape will be used to create a series of contemporary etchings and drawings. This work will add to a rich tradition of graphic arts from the early days of Antarctic exploration. The artist will create an exhibition catalog of these images with an essay describing her experiences, the scientific research and its contribution to the climate change story. She will examine a variety of metaphors and visual themes as part of project, including the aesthetics of ice cores; memory (the existence of atmospheric gases in the cores as planetary memories); scale, place and time; parallel places (contrasting the conditions of 20,000 years ago on the West Antarctic Ice Sheet with those in the Puget Sound Basin, where she is based); and contribution to environmental awareness and understandingAmong her efforts to achieve a broader impacts for her project, she will make presentations throughout Seattle in libraries, high schools, after-school programs and an art school. A proposed gallery exhibit and presentations will be advertised throughout the library system, arts organizations and on a Seattle cable channel arts program. She is also collaborating with an inner-city public middle school science teacher to develop a multi-disciplinary presentation in coordination with their environmental studies curriculum, which can eventually be shared with other schools. She also will maintain an Internet journal documenting her travel to Antarctica, the challenges of working on the ice and WAIS Divide field activities to share the artwork and its context nationally and abroad and she is planning presentations with TechREACH, an NSF-funded educational program that targets at-risk middle school students throughout Washington.