Exhibition Opening: The Last Glacier

In the Millikan, Nicholson and Held Galleries: The Holter Museum of Art welcomes The Last Glacier: Images of Our Changing Landscape, an exhibition highlighting the collaborative documentary project, The Last Glacier lead by visual artists Todd Anderson, Bruce Crownover and Ian van Coller. This arts and science initiative begun in 2009 when the three friends and artists hiked together in Glacier National Park documents the effects of climate change on Glaciers throughout the world and unites visual artists, scientists, and writers who create convergent research on specific wilderness environments that are experiencing tangible and dramatic ecological changes. Van Coller, who is based in Bozeman, describes the project: “Climate change is categorical, yet beauty, however temporal, still remains. As real time passes, The Last Glacier transforms into multi-generational artifacts that share stories of mortality and resiliency in the face of a changing planet.”
The Last Glacier includes 34 original artworks including: color photographs of glaciers by Montana artist Ian van Coller; colorful woodcut prints of glaciers using traditional Japanese style printmaking techniques by South Carolina artist Todd Anderson; as well as woodcut prints and watercolors by artist and master printer Bruce Crownover who lives and works in Wisconsin.