Category : Artists and Writers Program

Miami artist Xavier Cortada came to Antarctica to spread the word about climate change and to educate the public in the little-known scientific and historic...

A grant recipient of the National Science Foundation’s Antarctic Artists and Writers Program, Rogers spent about six weeks on the Ice in 2005. A writer...

Guy Guthridge spent 35 years of his life with the National Science Foundation working to create the foundation’s unique Antarctic Artists and Writers Program. The...

Most artists who travel to Antarctica express the continent’s jaw-dropping landscapes or its scientific importance through photography, painting, the written word and even the ice...

Canadian painter Linda Mackey co-founded the Polar Artists Group two years ago. Coordinating with the International Polar Year, most of the group’s 50 artists, photographers,...

Anthony Powell’s normal day job is as a satellite communications engineer at McMurdo Station. He’s on his sixth straight austral winter, monitoring and maintaining the...

Children’s author Nancy Etchemendy, known for spinning science fiction and horror tales for young adults, hopes to tell the story of an Antarctic science expedition...

Scott Sternbach’s portraits of those who work in the Antarctic might have been torn from the pages of history. Only the Carhartts, the synthetic fleeces...

Filmmaker Anne Aghion’s latest documentary takes the viewer on a far-away journey to Antarctica, where she wants her audience to feel the wintery blasts of...

There’s a saying that goes, “One man’s garbage is another man’s treasure.” Michael Bartalos has taken one nation’s trash in Antarctica and is turning it...