IMAGE Caitria Mir and Teal Gardner

DUST ON A GLACIER
April 11 - May 15, 2026

OPENING EVENT  Saturday, April 11, 6-8PM 
SCIENCE + ART IN CONVERSATION  May 8, 6-7:30PM 

Caitria Mir, Ellis Locke, Emily Iskin, Matthew Kennedy, Robyn Holmes, Teal Gardner

Antarctica exists on many scales- it is an ice archive that precedes human timekeeping by millions of years, and a massive landscape that in its sheer hugeness and remoteness is relegated to the bottom of popular maps and globes, hiding its size at the base of a curving projection. From this landscape, Dr. Anna Bergstrom, a hydrologist at Boise State University, studied the relationship between grains of dust deposited on glacial surfaces, and their collective effects on seawater chemistry. This exhibition, "Dust on a Glacier” takes Dr. Bergstrom's prompt to explore scale, and makes its way into both familiar and uncanny territories via works that feature intensively worked surfaces, meditations on the human hours taken to conduct a science experiment, video that zooms from miniature worlds of moss to full-system topographies, photography of a close-to-home, world-making catastrophe, and more.

My___on Mondays Episode 217: Simon Schabot is a 35 mm slide collector and (creative) writer. They've presented for Storyfort, The Backyard Artists, Realms, The Spill and Address Book. Their published work is forthcoming (they promise.) In the meantime, here are three of their essays on gardening.

MY ON MONDAYS explores the possessive “My” through narratives, art and sound. Every Monday, we publish a new audio, performance or experimental piece where only one rule applies:  the title must begin with the determiner “My”.

04/19/2026  SCALE / bodies in places is a new devised work by Rolodex that asks: “How can we see our collective humanity large enough to re-create the world while individual humans are so small and short-lived?” Collaboratively choreographed for flexibility, the piece conforms to the space in which it is performed. Movers respond to the DUST ON A GLACIER exhibition at MING by becoming glaciers, becoming sand, becoming light, becoming time.

7o'clock is a time and space dedicated to pure experience free of explanations, artist statements, or analysis. From music and dance to literature and theater, every Sunday brings new artists and a new performance, as the clock strikes 7.

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