{"id":16905,"date":"2017-05-04T10:30:05","date_gmt":"2017-05-04T14:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/?p=16905"},"modified":"2017-05-04T10:30:05","modified_gmt":"2017-05-04T14:30:05","slug":"capturing-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/capturing-changes\/","title":{"rendered":"Thin Ice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id='fullscreen_slider_1'  class='avia-fullscreen-slider main_color   avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_one_fifth  avia-builder-el-first   container_wrap sidebar_right' style=' '  ><a href='#next-section' title='' class='scroll-down-link av-control-default' aria-hidden='true' data-av_icon='\ue877' data-av_iconfont='entypo-fontello'><\/a><div   data-size='extra_large'  data-lightbox_size='large'  data-animation='slide'  data-conditional_play=''  data-ids='17123'  data-video_counter='0'  data-autoplay='false'  data-bg_slider='true'  data-slide_height='100'  data-handle='av_fullscreen'  data-interval='5'  data-class=' '  data-el_id=''  data-css_id='fullscreen_slider_1'  data-scroll_down='aviaTBscroll_down'  data-control_layout='av-control-default'  data-custom_markup=''  data-perma_caption=''  data-autoplay_stopper=''  data-image_attachment=''  data-min_height='0px'  data-stretch=''  data-default-height='100'  class='avia-slideshow avia-slideshow-1 av-slider-scroll-down-active av-control-default av-default-height-applied avia-slideshow-extra_large av_fullscreen   avia-slide-slider '  itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" ><ul class='avia-slideshow-inner ' style='padding-bottom: 71.375%;' ><li style='background-position:top left;' data-img-url='https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/04\/ITH-AndrersonWoodcut.jpg' class=' av-single-slide slide-1 ' ><div data-rel='slideshow-1' class='avia-slide-wrap '   ><div class = \"caption_fullwidth av-slideshow-caption caption_center caption_center_framed caption_framed\"><div class = \"container caption_container\"><div class = \"slideshow_caption\"><div class = \"slideshow_inner_caption\"><div class = \"slideshow_align_caption\"><h2  class='avia-caption-title  '  itemprop=\"name\" >Thin Ice<\/h2><div class='avia-caption-content  '  itemprop=\"description\"  ><p>Art professor documents beauty and loss in National Parks<br \/>\nBy Clinton Colmenares<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><div id='after_full_slider_1'  class='main_color av_default_container_wrap container_wrap sidebar_right' style=' '  ><div class='container' ><div class='template-page content  av-content-small alpha units'><div class='post-entry post-entry-type-page post-entry-16905'><div class='entry-content-wrapper clearfix'><br \/>\n<div class=\"flex_column av_one_fifth  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding first  avia-builder-el-1  el_after_av_fullscreen  el_before_av_three_fifth  avia-builder-el-first  \" style='border-radius:0px; '><\/div><br \/>\n<div class=\"flex_column av_three_fifth  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding   avia-builder-el-2  el_after_av_one_fifth  el_before_av_one_fifth  \" style='border-radius:0px; '><section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><blockquote>\n<p>With a heavy mug of coffee in one hand, Todd Anderson moves through his personal studio like a chef moving through a four-star kitchen: fluidly, efficiently, among the tools of his trade: neatly stacked cans of paint sorted by color, saws and drills tucked away without a hint of sawdust, brushes hanging neatly, chisels gleaming. Every label of every can and jar and bottle faces outward, lest confusion disrupt the rhythm of his work.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.clemson.edu\/caah\/departments\/art\/about\/faculty\/facultyBio.html?id=1984\">Anderson<\/a>, an assistant professor of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.clemson.edu\/caah\/departments\/art\/index.html\">art<\/a> at Clemson University, is a printmaker, skilled at transferring beauty and wonder from landscapes onto paper to share his experiences with the public.<br \/>\nWhen guests arrive at his studio, which used to be his garage, Anderson slips on a pair of shoes, turns off a stream of classical jazz and begins to tell a story about his latest project, which recently gained national attention.<br \/>\n\u201cI think we all understand that the world is changing in sweeping and dramatic ways,\u201d Anderson says, his voice quiet and earnest. \u201cMy belief is that those places need to be seen, they need to be experienced and they need to be creatively documented.\u201d It\u2019s a holy trinity that guides his work.<br \/>\nSince its founding 100 years ago, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nps.gov\/glac\/index.htm\">Glacier National Park<\/a> has lost more than 80 percent of its glaciers. Over the past six years, Anderson says, he hiked more than 500 miles through that park for a project called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelastglacier.com\/\">\u201cThe Last Glacier.\u201d<\/a>\u00a0He and two collaborators, fellow printmaker Bruce Crownover and photographer Ian van Coller, recently finished the project, resulting in original artwork that includes 15 specially bound 25- by 38-inch books with Anderson\u2019s original prints, Crownover\u2019s paintings and van Coller\u2019s photos.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cMy intent as an artist is to share the beauty of a changing world,\u201d Anderson says.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div><div class=\"flex_column av_one_fifth  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding   avia-builder-el-4  el_after_av_three_fifth  el_before_av_fullscreen  avia-builder-el-last  \" style='border-radius:0px; '><\/div><br \/>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><!-- close content main div --><\/div><\/div><div id='fullscreen_slider_2'  class='avia-fullscreen-slider main_color   avia-builder-el-5  el_after_av_one_fifth  el_before_av_one_fifth   slider-not-first container_wrap sidebar_right' style=' '  ><a href='#next-section' title='' class='scroll-down-link av-control-default' aria-hidden='true' data-av_icon='\ue877' data-av_iconfont='entypo-fontello'><\/a><div   data-size='extra_large'  data-lightbox_size='large'  data-animation='slide'  data-conditional_play=''  data-ids='17527'  data-video_counter='0'  data-autoplay='false'  data-bg_slider='true'  data-slide_height='100'  data-handle='av_fullscreen'  data-interval='5'  data-class=' '  data-el_id=''  data-css_id='fullscreen_slider_2'  data-scroll_down='aviaTBscroll_down'  data-control_layout='av-control-default'  data-custom_markup=''  data-perma_caption=''  data-autoplay_stopper=''  data-image_attachment=''  data-min_height='0px'  data-stretch=''  data-default-height='100'  class='avia-slideshow avia-slideshow-2 av-slider-scroll-down-active av-control-default av-default-height-applied avia-slideshow-extra_large av_fullscreen   avia-slide-slider '  itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" ><ul class='avia-slideshow-inner ' style='padding-bottom: 70.4666666667%;' ><li style='background-position:top left;' data-img-url='https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/05\/01-e1494517684630-1500x1057.jpg' class=' av-single-slide slide-1 ' ><div data-rel='slideshow-2' class='avia-slide-wrap '   ><div class = \"caption_fullwidth av-slideshow-caption caption_left caption_left_framed caption_framed\"><div class = \"container caption_container\"><div class = \"slideshow_caption\"><div class = \"slideshow_inner_caption\"><div class = \"slideshow_align_caption\"><h2  class='avia-caption-title  '  itemprop=\"name\" >In Demand<\/h2><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><div id='after_full_slider_2'  class='main_color av_default_container_wrap container_wrap sidebar_right' style=' '  ><div class='container' ><div class='template-page content  av-content-small alpha units'><div class='post-entry post-entry-type-page post-entry-16905'><div class='entry-content-wrapper clearfix'><br \/>\n<div class=\"flex_column av_one_fifth  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding first  avia-builder-el-6  el_after_av_fullscreen  el_before_av_three_fifth  avia-builder-el-first  \" style='border-radius:0px; '><\/div><br \/>\n<div class=\"flex_column av_three_fifth  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding   avia-builder-el-7  el_after_av_one_fifth  el_before_av_one_fifth  \" style='border-radius:0px; '><section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><blockquote>\n<p>The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the New York Public Library are sharing the work; they each bought a book on the spot. The Library of Congress bought another. Clemson\u2019s Emery A. Gunnin Architecture Library, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Yale, and several private collectors have also invested in the artistic, historical records.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThe Last Glacier\u201d quickly garnered the kind of attention artists dream of. But Anderson couldn\u2019t look lighter, more carefree. He says he spent a great deal of his life camping, hiking and climbing his way through the Rocky Mountains, sleeping with the stars overhead. It\u2019s easy to picture him on a mountain in a three-day beard and a worn flannel shirt, accidentally hip.<br \/>\nOn being outside, Anderson says, \u201cIf you\u2019ve felt frost on a sleeping bag, or seen dew on cobwebs in the woods, you can understand the value of that experience.\u201d<br \/>\nRock climbing\u00a0shaped his arms and hands; they\u2019re strong, purposeful. His blue eyes sparkle with an infinite appreciation for wonder, reflecting a scientist\u2019s curiosity and exacting patience. There are stories in those hands and eyes, and a quiet urgency to tell them.<br \/>\nIn the late oughts, Anderson heard the Rockies\u2019 glaciers were melting. \u201cMy first thought was, this is the environment that I love, these alpine environments, the beauty of these places. I felt sad, first and foremost. And then I thought, \u2018Well, who is documenting these places?\u2019\u201d<br \/>\nWhen months of searching for someone recording the glacial recession turned up empty, Anderson decided to do it himself. \u201cIt was really out of a sense of responsibility,\u201d he says.<br \/>\nThe three collaborators are currently wrapping up a second project, documenting glaciers in Rocky Mountain National Park. Anderson is also waiting to hear about a grant from the National Science Foundation that would send him to Antarctica.<br \/>\n\u201cThe Last Glacier\u201d is a compelling and invaluable work, said\u00a0Gary Machlis, the University Professor of Environmental Sustainability and scientific adviser to the director of the National Park Service for eight years until early January 2017. \u201cClimate change is the environmental challenge of our age, and responding to this challenge requires a constellation of voices \u2014 including those of artists like Todd.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cArt can be a portal for understanding in a visceral, emotional way what science attempts to demonstrate through theory, data and analysis,\u201d Machlis said. \u201cTodd\u2019s work is powerful, and his collaborative team is unique and so committed to their task. Viewing the images in \u2018The Last Glacier\u2019 is a reminder of what is at risk and what might be lost if we do not act.\u201d<br \/>\nIn 1910, there were 150 glaciers within the new 1 million-acre Glacier National Park in Montana\u2019s Rocky Mountains. When Anderson started his work, in 2010, all but 25 had melted.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Glaciers, the marvelous remnants of the last ice age, are made from the bottom up by layer upon layer of snow that melts into ice, the accumulating weight pressing the earth, picking up and setting down boulders as they slide incrementally. For the past 7,000 years, the glaciers in the park\u00a0have stretched for miles, like giant beached whales caught between mountains and frozen by time.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div><br \/>\n<div class=\"flex_column av_one_fifth  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding   avia-builder-el-9  el_after_av_three_fifth  el_before_av_fullscreen  avia-builder-el-last  \" style='border-radius:0px; '><\/div><br \/>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><!-- close content main div --><\/div><\/div><div id='fullscreen_slider_3'  class='avia-fullscreen-slider main_color   avia-builder-el-10  el_after_av_one_fifth  el_before_av_one_fifth   slider-not-first container_wrap sidebar_right' style=' '  ><a href='#next-section' title='' class='scroll-down-link av-control-default' aria-hidden='true' data-av_icon='\ue877' data-av_iconfont='entypo-fontello'><\/a><div   data-size='extra_large'  data-lightbox_size='large'  data-animation='slide'  data-conditional_play=''  data-ids='17524'  data-video_counter='0'  data-autoplay='false'  data-bg_slider='true'  data-slide_height='100'  data-handle='av_fullscreen'  data-interval='5'  data-class=' '  data-el_id=''  data-css_id='fullscreen_slider_3'  data-scroll_down='aviaTBscroll_down'  data-control_layout='av-control-default'  data-custom_markup=''  data-perma_caption=''  data-autoplay_stopper=''  data-image_attachment=''  data-min_height='0px'  data-stretch=''  data-default-height='100'  class='avia-slideshow avia-slideshow-3 av-slider-scroll-down-active av-control-default av-default-height-applied avia-slideshow-extra_large av_fullscreen   avia-slide-slider '  itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" ><ul class='avia-slideshow-inner ' style='padding-bottom: 66.4%;' ><li style='background-position:top left;' data-img-url='https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/05\/Grinnell_TAnderson.jpg' class=' av-single-slide slide-1 ' ><div data-rel='slideshow-3' class='avia-slide-wrap '   ><div class = \"caption_fullwidth av-slideshow-caption caption_center caption_center_framed caption_framed\"><div class = \"container caption_container\"><div class = \"slideshow_caption\"><div class = \"slideshow_inner_caption\"><div class = \"slideshow_align_caption\"><h2  class='avia-caption-title  '  itemprop=\"name\" >Melting ice, rising seas<\/h2><div class='avia-caption-content  '  itemprop=\"description\"  ><p>An Anderson woodcut print of the Grinnell glacier in Glacier National Park.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><div id='after_full_slider_3'  class='main_color av_default_container_wrap container_wrap sidebar_right' style=' '  ><div class='container' ><div class='template-page content  av-content-small alpha units'><div class='post-entry post-entry-type-page post-entry-16905'><div class='entry-content-wrapper clearfix'><br \/>\n<div class=\"flex_column av_one_fifth  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding first  avia-builder-el-11  el_after_av_fullscreen  el_before_av_three_fifth  avia-builder-el-first  \" style='border-radius:0px; '><\/div><br \/>\n<div class=\"flex_column av_three_fifth  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding   avia-builder-el-12  el_after_av_one_fifth  el_before_av_one_fifth  \" style='border-radius:0px; '><section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><blockquote>\n<p>When glaciers melt they don\u2019t simply disappear, they become water. Increasingly, they\u2019re adding to rising sea levels.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Melt from all the glaciers and ice sheets in the world are responsible for two-thirds of global sea level rise (the rest is attributed to warming seas), according to <a href=\"http:\/\/glaciers.pdx.edu\/fountain\/\">Andrew Fountain <\/a>a glaciologist at Portland State University in Portland, Oregon, who agreed to write a scientific note about the next project by Anderson and his colleagues.<br \/>\nTwenty years ago, Fountain said, alpine glaciers, like the ones in Glacier National Park, were the first to melt. \u201cNow Greenland is beginning to melt,\u201d he said.<br \/>\nBy 2040, with a 2-degree Celsius increase in global temperature, sea levels will rise significantly along 90 percent of the world\u2019s coastlines, affecting hundreds of millions of people, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pnas.org\/content\/113\/47\/13342.full#ref-4\">a study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences<\/a>.<br \/>\nFountain has introduced many artists to the wilderness in Antarctica, where he conducts some of his research. When Anderson asked him, out of the blue, to contribute to an artistic project, Fountain considered it a way to tell more people about the melting glaciers.<br \/>\n\u201cGetting this information out to people is super important,\u201d said\u00a0Fountain. \u201cIt\u2019s a gateway to science. I might be attracted to the subject by graphs and plots, but others might be attracted by art.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>It\u2019s a symbiotic relationship, Anderson said, as scientists wrap the art in a scientific context.<br \/>\n\u201cWorking with scientists is very critical to my projects. We\u2019re trying to bridge gaps and we\u2019re trying to connect with as many folks as we can,\u201d Anderson said. \u201cWhat the scientists provide is things that we can\u2019t provide \u2013 analytical analysis and whole, unique perspectives of what\u2019s going on with the landscape.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>There is also common ground among artists and scientists, and aficionados of each. Science, Fountain said, can be incredibly creative, like when it\u2019s time to choose the right approach to finding a solution. And when looking at Anderson\u2019s art, the glaciologist sees clues to the glacier\u2019s life, such as whether it\u2019s advancing or retreating.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div><br \/>\n<div class=\"flex_column av_one_fifth  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding   avia-builder-el-14  el_after_av_three_fifth  el_before_av_fullscreen  avia-builder-el-last  \" style='border-radius:0px; '><\/div><br \/>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><!-- close content main div --><\/div><\/div><div id='fullscreen_slider_4'  class='avia-fullscreen-slider main_color   avia-builder-el-15  el_after_av_one_fifth  el_before_av_one_fifth   slider-not-first container_wrap sidebar_right' style=' '  ><a href='#next-section' title='' class='scroll-down-link av-control-default' aria-hidden='true' data-av_icon='\ue877' data-av_iconfont='entypo-fontello'><\/a><div   data-size='extra_large'  data-lightbox_size='large'  data-animation='slide'  data-conditional_play=''  data-ids=''  data-video_counter='1'  data-autoplay='false'  data-bg_slider='true'  data-slide_height='100'  data-handle='av_fullscreen'  data-interval='5'  data-class=' '  data-el_id=''  data-css_id='fullscreen_slider_4'  data-scroll_down='aviaTBscroll_down'  data-control_layout='av-control-default'  data-custom_markup=''  data-perma_caption=''  data-autoplay_stopper=''  data-image_attachment=''  data-min_height='0px'  data-stretch=''  data-default-height='100'  class='avia-slideshow avia-slideshow-4 av-slider-scroll-down-active av-control-default av-default-height-applied avia-slideshow-extra_large av_fullscreen   avia-slide-slider '  itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" ><ul class='avia-slideshow-inner ' style='padding-bottom: 100%;' ><li  data-controls='aviaTBaviaTBvideo_controls' data-mute='' data-loop='' data-disable-autoplay='aviaTBaviaTBvideo_autoplay'  data-mobile-img='https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/05\/Anderson.jpg' class=' av-video-slide av-element-cover av-video-service-youtube  av-hide-video-controls av-mobile-fallback-image av-single-slide slide-1 ' ><div data-rel='slideshow-4' class='avia-slide-wrap ' style='background-image:url(\"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/05\/Anderson.jpg\");'  ><div class='av-click-overlay'><\/div><div class='mejs-mediaelement'><div height='1600' width='900' class='av_youtube_frame' id='player_16905_290359407_1506258154'  data-autoplay='0'  data-videoid='EKzsLzJudts'  data-hd='1'  data-rel='0'  data-wmode='opaque'  data-playlist='player_16905_290359407_1506258154'  data-loop='0'  data-version='3'  data-autohide='1'  data-color='white'  data-controls='0'  data-showinfo='0'  data-iv_load_policy='3'  data-original_url='https:\/\/youtu.be\/EKzsLzJudts' ><\/div><\/div><div class='av-click-to-play-overlay'><div class=\"avia_playpause_icon\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><div id='after_full_slider_4'  class='main_color av_default_container_wrap container_wrap sidebar_right' style=' '  ><div class='container' ><div class='template-page content  av-content-small alpha units'><div class='post-entry post-entry-type-page post-entry-16905'><div class='entry-content-wrapper clearfix'><br \/>\n<div class=\"flex_column av_one_fifth  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding first  avia-builder-el-16  el_after_av_fullscreen  el_before_av_three_fifth  avia-builder-el-first  \" style='border-radius:0px; '><\/div><br \/>\n<div class=\"flex_column av_three_fifth  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding   avia-builder-el-17  el_after_av_one_fifth  el_before_av_one_fifth  \" style='border-radius:0px; '><section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><h3>Democratic medium<\/h3>\n<p>After graduating from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Anderson found work at Tandem Press, an international printing house affiliated with UW\u2019s School of Education. Tandem has a tradition of attracting famous artists to experiment and print in its studio. David Lynch, Chuck Close, Art Spiegelman and Judy Pfaff are among its alumni.<br \/>\nEssentially, Anderson worked with artists accustomed to producing singular pieces of art and helped them create prints that \u201cwould be totally and wholly unique, but you could make 20 or 30 of these things and more people could have it.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Printmaking, he said, \u201cis an inherently democratic medium, and for me that was really what grabbed me.\u201d \u201cThe Last Glacier\u201d project is similarly intended to be shared with the masses, Anderson said. \u201cOur mission is to get the work into the public sphere,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>And he wants future masses to experience the work, which makes acquisitions by the Met, the New York Public Library and the Library of Congress special.<br \/>\n\u201cOne of the things I want to do as an artist is to talk about the immediacy of things going on in the world. But art, as I understand it and the way I approach it, it\u2019s a multigenerational conversation,\u201d Anderson said.<br \/>\nIn museums, \u201cwhen we look at a painting from the 1800s it helps us understand what people\u2019s values were, what people thought about,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s just as important when future generations who go to museums and get to see this work. It\u2019s not just saying, \u2018Oh, there used to be a glacier here,\u2019 but it\u2019s also saying, \u2018This is a little bit about us.\u2019 In a very, very small way. Of what we valued as a society and what we thought about, the challenges we were trying to face and engage.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Working with collaborators also amplifies the message and grows the audience. Anderson initially planned to work alone, but the glaciers were so vast and distant \u2013 10 to 15 miles from an access road \u2013 that he enlisted Crownover and van Coller to help cover the territory.<br \/>\nThe result, Anderson said, is \u201cthree very unique artistic visions of essentially the same thing. The hope is that by presenting the viewer with three different versions of three different artists, that folks might be able to latch on. If they don\u2019t like my work, maybe they\u2019ll really like Bruce\u2019s. Or if they don\u2019t like Bruce\u2019s, maybe they\u2019ll like Ian\u2019s.\u201d<a href=\"http:\/\/newsstand.clemson.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/32335259722_aab0bcf3d2_o.jpg\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div><br \/>\n<div class=\"flex_column av_one_fifth  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding   avia-builder-el-19  el_after_av_three_fifth  el_before_av_fullscreen  avia-builder-el-last  \" style='border-radius:0px; '><\/div><br \/>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><!-- close content main div --><\/div><\/div><div id='fullscreen_slider_5'  class='avia-fullscreen-slider main_color   avia-builder-el-20  el_after_av_one_fifth  el_before_av_one_fifth   slider-not-first container_wrap sidebar_right' style=' '  ><a href='#next-section' title='' class='scroll-down-link av-control-default' aria-hidden='true' data-av_icon='\ue877' data-av_iconfont='entypo-fontello'><\/a><div   data-size='extra_large'  data-lightbox_size='large'  data-animation='slide'  data-conditional_play=''  data-ids=''  data-video_counter='1'  data-autoplay='false'  data-bg_slider='true'  data-slide_height='100'  data-handle='av_fullscreen'  data-interval='5'  data-class=' '  data-el_id=''  data-css_id='fullscreen_slider_5'  data-scroll_down='aviaTBscroll_down'  data-control_layout='av-control-default'  data-custom_markup=''  data-perma_caption=''  data-autoplay_stopper=''  data-image_attachment=''  data-min_height='0px'  data-stretch=''  data-default-height='100'  class='avia-slideshow avia-slideshow-5 av-slider-scroll-down-active av-control-default av-default-height-applied avia-slideshow-extra_large av_fullscreen   avia-slide-slider '  itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" ><ul class='avia-slideshow-inner ' style='padding-bottom: 100%;' ><li  data-controls='aviaTBaviaTBvideo_controls' data-mute='' data-loop='' data-disable-autoplay='aviaTBaviaTBvideo_autoplay'  data-mobile-img='https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/05\/03-e1494518609739-1500x904.jpg' class=' av-video-slide av-element-cover av-video-service-youtube  av-hide-video-controls av-mobile-fallback-image av-single-slide slide-1 ' ><div data-rel='slideshow-5' class='avia-slide-wrap ' style='background-image:url(\"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/05\/03-e1494518609739-1500x904.jpg\");'  ><div class='av-click-overlay'><\/div><div class='mejs-mediaelement'><div height='1600' width='900' class='av_youtube_frame' id='player_16905_2059709417_779086474'  data-autoplay='0'  data-videoid='Pt-mDt4nOoQ'  data-hd='1'  data-rel='0'  data-wmode='opaque'  data-playlist='player_16905_2059709417_779086474'  data-loop='0'  data-version='3'  data-autohide='1'  data-color='white'  data-controls='0'  data-showinfo='0'  data-iv_load_policy='3'  data-original_url='https:\/\/youtu.be\/Pt-mDt4nOoQ' ><\/div><\/div><div class='av-click-to-play-overlay'><div class=\"avia_playpause_icon\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><div id='after_full_slider_5'  class='main_color av_default_container_wrap container_wrap sidebar_right' style=' '  ><div class='container' ><div class='template-page content  av-content-small alpha units'><div class='post-entry post-entry-type-page post-entry-16905'><div class='entry-content-wrapper clearfix'><br \/>\n<div class=\"flex_column av_one_fifth  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding first  avia-builder-el-21  el_after_av_fullscreen  el_before_av_three_fifth  avia-builder-el-first  \" style='border-radius:0px; '><\/div><br \/>\n<div class=\"flex_column av_three_fifth  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding   avia-builder-el-22  el_after_av_one_fifth  el_before_av_one_fifth  \" style='border-radius:0px; '><section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><h3>Mirroring the glaciers<\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p>If you\u2019ve stood on a glacier, or on a mountain two miles high, standing in front of Anderson\u2019s finished prints will stir a familiar chill in the air, as if someone opened a window 10,000 feet up. The prints reveal scars from the violent upheaval, subduction and collision of the Earth\u2019s crust. You\u2019ll feel the cool blues of the ice, the ancient gray of the rock and yellow, purple, pink and blue of sunrises and sunsets seen through thin air.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Anderson spent weeks each summer working in situ, researching the glaciers \u2013 which ones to document, how to access them, seeing them at different times of day as the sun shifted shadows and revealed new details. He hiked, sketched and photographed, getting to know each one before it ceased to exist.<br \/>\nBack in his\u00a0studio, where the prints come to life, a mixture of fluorescent bulbs balance the blues, reds and greens to shine as white as possible.<br \/>\nIn the middle of the space sits a printing press, perched atop tiny feet, perfectly level. The press is new; at least it\u2019s new to Anderson. It arrived recently by freight to his home in one of Clemson\u2019s leafy neighborhoods. The press is his six-burner gas range, where the ingredients of his art \u2013 science, nature, light and the wonder of the Rocky Mountains \u2014 mingle and fuse.<br \/>\nSlowly, they develop as reductive woodcut prints in a process involving time, pressure and the deliberate carving of a landscape until nothing is left but a picture, a life cycle that mimics his subjects. Anderson chose to recreate the glaciers as woodcut prints because, he says, he wanted \u201can organic, visual language,\u201d and woodcuts, by their nature, provide a \u201cvisual texture.\u201d<br \/>\nBoth glaciers and prints are constructed of layers, but \u00a0while glaciers are built from the bottom, prints begin at the top. They require the artist to complete the piece in his mind, then work backward.<br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_17522\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/clemson.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/AndersonCarves.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17522\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-17522\" src=\"https:\/\/clemson.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/AndersonCarves-300x212.jpg\" alt=\"Todd Anderson, assistant professor of art and printmaking at Clemson University, carves out a plywood \u201cstamp\u201d he is using to create a reductive woodblock print of a glacier for \u201cThe Last Glacier\u201d, a collaboration with fellow artists Bruce Crownover and Ian van Coller, in his home workshop in Clemson, S.C., Nov.9, 2016. The intention of the project in a nutshell is to share the beauty of the changing world. \" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" srcset=\"https:\/\/clemsonworld.wpenginepowered.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/05\/AndersonCarves-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/clemsonworld.wpenginepowered.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/05\/AndersonCarves.jpg 495w, https:\/\/clemsonworld.wpenginepowered.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/05\/AndersonCarves-260x185.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-17522\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anderson carves out a plywood \u201cstamp\u201d he is using to create a reductive woodblock print of a glacier for \u201cThe Last Glacier.\u201d<\/p><\/div><br \/>\nAnderson transfers a sketch to a rectangular block of basswood, imported from Japan, then begins working in negative space \u2013 using fingers and hands that once routinely clung to rock to slowly, expertly, carve away wood, creating an image by removing what he doesn\u2019t want in the print. The first layer he carves away, from the top of the block, will be the first image on the paper, the bottom layer of color.<br \/>\n\u201cI might do that 10, 15 or 20 times. So I\u2019ll have 15 or 20 sheets of paper that look the same,\u201d he says. \u201cOnce I\u2019m done doing that, I\u2019ll take that same block of wood, clean it off, carve it out a little bit more, I\u2019ll ink it up with a new color this time, then I\u2019ll print it on top of what I printed before.\u201d<br \/>\nHe has to print light colors first, and he\u2019s constantly calculating \u201cthe value of the color and the opacity of my ink, so that I can make a whole image look right. At least in my mind how it looks right.\u201d<br \/>\nOne layer, one carving, one color, one pressing at a time, all the while thinking backwards, or upside down, removing negative space from the top that becomes the bottom. Eventually, the full image appears. But, at a cost.<br \/>\n\u201cBy the time I get done making these artworks, the blocks themselves are really exhausted, and there\u2019s no way of going back and remaking the artwork,\u201d Anderson says. \u201cThe process is mirroring the fate of the glaciers themselves.\u201d<br \/>\nAnderson said\u00a0he doesn\u2019t create \u201cmessage\u201d art. He\u2019s not delivering a political statement. Not directly, anyway.<br \/>\n\u201cThere\u2019s a complexity to these ideas\u201d of art, experience, climate change, he said. \u201cWhat I\u2019m trying to present as an artist is visual complexity. But there\u2019s moments where, when it works right, you can get lost in these things and you start seeing the cobwebs. You start seeing things. There\u2019s an experience that art can give you, which is just wonder, and that\u2019s what I\u2019m trying to do.\u201d<br \/>\nAnderson received funding from the South Carolina Arts Commission, the Sustainable Arts Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts for this work.<br \/>\nFor more information, and to see the work by Crownover and van Coller, go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelastglacier.com\/\">TheLastGlacier.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div><br \/>\n<div class=\"flex_column av_one_fifth  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding   avia-builder-el-24  el_after_av_three_fifth  avia-builder-el-last  \" style='border-radius:0px; '><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assistant Professor of Art Todd Anderson is a printmaker, skilled at transferring beauty and wonder from landscapes onto paper. 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