ARTtalk: Jill Pelto

Hear from the artists behind the exhibitions!  Jill Pelto will speak about Community Contours in the Southern Appalachian Mountains on June 5th during the First Friday Art Crawl. Climate change artist Jill Pelto is currently based in Bellingham, Washington. She grew up in Massachusetts, lived in Maine for a decade, and New Mexico briefly. Pelto completed her Bachelor of Arts degrees in Studio Art and Earth Science before continuing on to complete a Master of Science degree at the University of Maine in August 2018, where she focused on studying the sensitivity of the Antarctic Ice Sheet to changes in the Earth-Climate system. She has conducted research on the mountain glaciers of Washington and British Columbia, in the Dry Valleys and Transantarctic Mountains of Antarctica, in the Falkland Islands, and in New Zealand. Jill Pelto is also the Art Director of the North Cascade Glacier Climate Project, which she co-leads with her father, Science Director Dr. Mauri Pelto. Pelto’s artwork has been featured on the cover of TIME Magazine, at the Peabody Essex Museum, and was used on the cover of the North Cascade Conservation Council journal.