posted 12/21/11 12:07 PM | updated 12/21/11 12:07 PM

Brown Bag Lunch with Anna McKee & Peter Neff

Join artist Anna McKee and glaciologist Peter Neff on Thursday, January 5, at the Sun Valley Center for the Arts for an informal brown-bag slideshow and talk about ice cores, art and ice bound landscapes.

The free, hour-long program starts at noon. No advance registration is required and attendees are invited to bring along a lunch.

In 2008, McKee began looking at ice core specimens, glaciers and ice sheets “to explore metaphors about the deep memory of the world and the frailty of our ecosystems.” From her home in Seattle, she traveled to ice-core sites in British Columbia and Antarctica. On the West Antarctic Ice Sheet she visited a research team drilling a two-mile-deep ice core, recovering atmosphere over 100,000 years old (ice cores provide a climatic record because of the air trapped in their layers).

“Ice offers symbolic stories of the planet and our effect on that story through millennia,” she says. “I began by drawing ice cores, kept in freezers, dissected by scientists. I gazed into these clear columns and desperately tried to draw the few visible variations. I looked at high resolution images of ice, glaciers and radar measurements of ice sheets. The resulting Ice Series prints are my specimens, revealing what fascinated my eye and mind.”

Peter Neff, a University of Washington graduate student in glaciology, will be on hand to talk about the ice core projects and recent discoveries in the science of climate change.

McKee’s drawings of glacial landscapes are on view at The Center Gallery in Ketchum as part of the multidisciplinary project  Thin Ice: Journeys in Polar Regions, which also includes films, lectures and a visual arts exhibition in Hailey. For more information about the brown bag lunch or Thin Ice, visit www.sunvalleycenter.org or call 726.9491 ex 10.

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