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, DOORS 6:30PM  TALK 7PM 

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.

SCIENCE + ART IN CONVERSATION
Friday, May 8, DOORS 6:30PM TALK 7PM 

On May 8, 2026 from 7-8:30 PM,  please join the artists from the Dust on a Glacier exhibition and Dr. Anna Bergstrom in Art + Science talks. Dr. Bergstrom will describe her research in Antarctica, which explores the potential effects on the chemistry of seawater by the erosion of particles of minute sediment over glacial surfaces. The artists will discuss how they responded to Dr. Bergstrom's interdisciplinary "question of scale" through their works.