These artists climb mountains to help document climate change

Episode by Alex Cowan - Link to Listen Here -

“Washington state's glacier fields in the Olympic Mountains and the Cascade Range are melting by significant margins. In order to study those glaciers, researchers hike back into some of the most remote outreaches of our wilderness.

But they're rarely going alone. Aside from research teams, these expeditions frequently include artists, and through painting, sketching and other media, these artists are working with scientists to communicate science in a way that isn't reliant on numbers or heady scientific explanations.

Soundside Producer Alec Cowan spoke with a few local expeditionary artists — Claire Giordano, Maria-Coryell Martin and Jill Pelto — about what it's like to create beautiful artwork from a changing world.”