• This video follows landscape artist, Zaria Forman, as she travels to Patagonia to create a drawing highlighting the loss of ice in the region.
• Zaria aims to accurately show the beauty of the landscape, as opposed to the destruction, in hopes of inspiring positive change.

Positives

• The artist travels to remote places that others might not be able to access as easily to document the beauty and changes over time due to climate change.
• Her art is detailed and accurate to the landscape.

Additional Prerequisites

• Students should understand why glacier retreat is a negative consequence of climate change.
• The content of the video ends at 3:40 and the remaining time is credits.

Differentiation

• Art classes can use Zaria Forman's work as inspiration to create artwork using a variety of techniques, mediums, and perspectives.
• Teachers can conduct an SEL check-in about how the art makes us feel and how Zaria Forman wants her art to make us feel.
• Students can search for other works of art from Zaria Forman and analyze the context and meaning.
• Other resources related to these topics include these photographs comparing images of glaciers changing over time and this interactive media resource comparing side-by-side images of landscapes over time.

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