In May 2023, the research station hosted Claire Giordano, the science communication and art instructor for the University of Maine's field school program called Sea to Sky.
Claire is an environmental artist, writer, and educator creatively exploring the interwoven patterns of people, place, and climate change. At the heart of her interdisciplinary work is the goal to create visual and virtual spaces that foster connections between individuals and our warming world. Claire is also the founder of the Adventure Art Academy, where she teaches immersive virtual art classes filmed on her hiking adventures.
“May 24, 2023. I woke up at 5:00am this morning, too excited for another day of painting, teaching, and exploring to sleep any longer. With 22 hours of daylight the days feel so wonderfully long here. I’m currently sitting outside the mess hall watching, and trying to paint, the fleeting light of the mountains. While I wait for my current painting to dry in the cold morning air, I carefully unpack the paintings I made yesterday on the icefield. The five pieces of watercolor paper tell the story of the day, from the fractal patterns created by freezing paint to small blobs of dye from the snow pit that got onto everything. Like every painting created here, I will soon tape them to the wall; every brush stroke is part of the growing constellation of our team’s experience here.” – Excerpt from Claire Giordano’s field notebook
