Ice Cores, Transluscent Truths from the West Antarctic Ice Sheet

早期的职业艺术家安娜麦基建议花两个星期的野外营地的国家科学基金会资助的WAIS鸿沟冰芯项目，一个深冰芯，将提供一个最详细的记录大气条件有史以来获得。她的素描和实地工作和景观的照片将被用来创建一系列当代蚀刻和绘画。这项工作将增加一个丰富的传统图形艺术从早期的南极探险。这位艺术家将创作一个展览目录，其中包括一篇描述她的经历、科学研究及其对气候变化故事的贡献的文章。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（核心中作为行星记忆的大气气体的存在）;规模，地点和时间;平行的地方（对比了两万年前南极洲西部冰盖与她所在的普吉特湾盆地的情况）;在她为实现她的项目更广泛的影响所做的努力中，她将在整个西雅图的图书馆、高中、课后项目和艺术学校做演讲。一个拟议的画廊展览和介绍将在整个图书馆系统，艺术组织和西雅图有线电视频道艺术节目广告。 她还与市中心的公立中学科学教师合作，与他们的环境研究课程协调，开发一个多学科的演示文稿，最终可以与其他学校分享。她还将保持一个互联网日志记录她的南极洲之旅，在冰上工作的挑战和WAIS Divide实地活动，以分享艺术品及其国内外的背景，她正在计划与TechREACH，NSF资助的教育计划，目标是在整个华盛顿的风险中学生介绍。

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.