Walking in Antarctica
April 5, 2025 – August 10, 2025
In 2015, artist Helen Glazer traveled to Antarctica as a grantee of the National Science Foundation’s Antarctic Artists and Writers Program, in order to photograph ice and geological formations for eventual production as photographic prints and sculpture. She worked out of remote Antarctic scientific field camps and had access to protected areas that can only be entered with government permits or in the company of a skilled mountaineer.
Inspired and informed by her experiences, Walking in Antarctica is an immersive, interdisciplinary exhibition bringing together photography, sculpture, and audio narrative to take the viewer on a journey through an extraordinary environment of remote places that the tourist ships do not reach and few people get to witness in person. The exhibition is organized as a series of “walks” through remarkable Antarctic landscapes: over frozen lakes, around towering glaciers and baroque sea ice formations, into a magnificent frozen ice cave, across fields of surreal-looking boulders, and through a lively colony of nesting Adélie penguins. Visitors to the exhibition who have smartphones will be able to access an audio tour narrated by Glazer, drawn from a blog in which she recorded her experiences.
Through her artwork, Glazer strives to convey the wonder and complexity of the natural world to others, in order to motivate a desire to protect and preserve wild places. Her study of earth science over the past several years heightened her awareness of multiple factors shaping the land over time. In recognizing that complex patterns in nature express the particular physical forces at work, she became more attuned to the interplay between geology, climate, life forms, and human activity in a given location. Funding for this exhibition at The Sam Noble Museum was provided by the Mary Jane Noble Endowed Fund.
This project is organized by Mid-America Arts Alliance and is an adaptation of the artist’s solo exhibition of the same title held at the Rosenberg Gallery at Goucher College (Baltimore, MD) that was funded in part by grants from the Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance and the Puffin Foundation. Creation of this work was made possible in part by a Rubys Artist Project Grant, a program of the Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance conceived and initiated with funding from the Robert W. Deutsch Foundation, and by a Puffin Foundation Artist Grant.
Creatividad silvestre | Wild Creativity
January 18, 2025 – May 4, 2025
How does a kangaroo gain energy as it bounces? Why do birds have different beaks? How does a prairie dog cool its home?
Creatividad silvestre | Wild Creativity invites visitors of all ages to explore fundamental concepts of biomimicry through hands-on design challenges, spotlighting the interplay between the art and science of nature and how it continues to inform our world.
This bilingual exhibit reveals how animals and nature work in unique, sustainable, and efficient ways. Today’s engineers have much to learn from the natural world and our next great design may come from YOU!
¿Cómo obtiene energía un canguro cuando rebota? ¿Cómo refresca su casa un perrito de las praderas? ¿Por qué las aves tienen picos diferentes?
Creatividad silvestre | Wild Creativity invita a las y los visitantes de todas las edades a explorar los conceptos fundamentales de la biomimesis a través de desafíos interactivos de diseño, destacando la interacción entre el arte y la ciencia de la naturaleza y cómo ésta continúa informando a nuestro mundo.
Esta exhibición bilingüe muestra cómo los animales y la naturaleza funcionan de manera única, sostenible y eficiente. ¡Las ingenieras y los ingenieros de hoy tienen mucho que aprender del mundo natural y nuestro próximo gran diseño puede venir de TI!
Educators! The Wild Creativity educator guide features lessons, activities, and more to get your students ready for their museum visit or extend their learning back to your classroom. CLICK HERE to download the PDF!
