"Landscape of Change"
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Provided by: Jill Pelto Gallery|Published on: April 27, 2021
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Synopsis
- This is a landscape painting by Jill Pelto that uses data about sea-level rise, glacier volume decline, increasing global temperatures, and the increasing use of fossil fuels to generate data lines.
- These data lines compose a landscape shaped by the changing climate, a world in which we are now living.
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Subjects: Earth and Space Sciences, Visual and Performing Arts
Authors: Jill Pelto Gallery
Region: Global
Languages: English
Teaching Materials
Positives
- The painting is simple and easy to appreciate and interpret.
- There is a link to different websites with data about different climate change concerns.
- This resource is ideal for sparking creativity in students.
Additional Prerequisites
- This resource supports lessons but may not exactly replace them. Hence, it is advisable for the educator to determine how to apply this in the lesson.
Differentiation
- The educator can sign the students up for a collaborative project with the author Jill Pelto.
- Teachers can invite the artist via Zoom for an explanation of the artwork from her perspective.
- Students can be challenged to represent other climate change risks they identify in their community in the form of art.
- Other works by Jill Pelto include "Decline in Glacier Mass Balance", "Moments of Observation", "Measuring Crevasse Depth", and Support Marine Reserves in the Antarctic: Overfishing, Bycatch, Climate Change".
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About the Partner Provider
Jill Pelto
Jill Pelto is an artist and scientist whose work focuses on communicating human-environment connections. She incorporates scientific research and data directly into her watercolor paintings — from local trends to global changes. Jill’s artwork was featured on the cover of TIME Magazine in July 2020 and has inspired online features in Smithsonian and PBS News Hour. Jill has created a science-art activity based on this idea and has worked with K-12 students across the U.S. and beyond. By pairing graphical information with visual imagery, Jill hopes students can learn about and connect to climate change topics (good, bad, and in-between) in ways that educate and are emotionally relevant. This data-art activity is flexible and allows students to make their own graph art to share topics they care about.
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