"Moments of Observation"
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Provided by: Jill Pelto Gallery|Published on: April 27, 2021
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Synopsis
- This resource is a watercolor painting depicting the observation of a glacier landscape. It reflects graphical lines that denote where the glacier used to extend only several decades ago.
- The figures in the painting are portrayed taking the time to look and to reflect. Each of them may be noticing a different change in the glacier, but they are all taking in its retreat.
Subjects: Earth and Space Sciences, Visual and Performing Arts
Authors: Jill Pelto Gallery
Region: Global
Languages: English
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Positives
- The painting is simple and easy to appreciate and interpret.
- This resource is ideal for sparking creativity in students.
Additional Prerequisites
- This resource is best used to support lessons and teachers may need to be creative in how they integrate it into their teaching.
Differentiation
- The educator can sign the students up for a collaborative project with the artist Jill Pelto.
- This could be used as an example for a project where students are inspired by climate change data as the basis of their artwork.
- 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 "Landscape of Change", "Decline in Glacier Mass Balance", and "Take a Lesson From Nature".
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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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