Artist Talk: Jonathan Marquis on Something To Hold: The Glacier Drawing Project

In conjunction with Jonathan Marquis's MAM exhibition, Something to Hold, The Glacier Drawing Project, admirers of the project and Marquis's work have an opportunity to hear from the artist himself about his adventures in the wild at the Missoula Public Library.
The Glacier Drawing Project by Jonathan Marquis is a long-term endeavor to draw and bear witness to all of Montana's glaciers before a warming climate melts the ice beyond recognition. Alpine glaciers are the lifeblood of the Northern Rockies. Each year, the artist visits new glaciers, revisits others, and often draws from mountain summits that grant glimpses into some of Earth's most iconic and intact wildland geographies. The drawings explore a personal connection with glaciers through color, mark-making, and careful attentiveness. The Glacier Drawing Project is the only on-site, hand-drawn visual record of the fifty-nine named glacial features in Montana's Crown of the Continent and Greater Yellowstone ecosystems.