Sperry 2

Label

Depicting Sperry Glacier, located on Gunsight Mountain in Glacier National Park, this monumental aerial photograph enables the viewer to bear witness to glacial retreat. Focusing our attention on the sun-bathed rocks of the craggy mountain once covered by ice, the looming shadow evokes a sense of peril as the ice melts and the landscape changes at an alarming rate. Connecting scientific data to visual narratives through her artistic practice, Diane Burko’s work renders climate change issues not only visible, but accessible.

From the 2022 exhibition This Land: American Engagement with the Natural World, curated by Jami C. Powell, Curator of Indigenous Art; Barbara J. MacAdam, former Jonathan L. Cohen Curator of American Art; Thomas H. Price, former Curatorial Assistant; Morgan E. Freeman, former DAMLI Native American Art Fellow; and Michael Hartman, Jonathan Little Cohen Associate Curator of American Art

Course History

ENGS 7, Climate Change, Mary Albert, Winter 2013

ENVS 7, Ecopsychology, Terry Osborne, Winter 2013

ENVS 80, Writing Our Way Home, Terry Tempest Williams, Spring 2012

GEOG 11, Qualitative Methods and the Research Process in Geography, Jennifer Fluri, Winter 2012

ENVS 7, Ecopsychology, Terry Osborne, Winter 2014

ENGS 7, Climate Change, Mary Albert, Winter 2014

ENVS 7.3, Ecopsychology, Terry Osborne, Winter 2015

ENGS 7.2, Climate Change, Mary Albert, Winter 2015

ENVS 7, Ecopyschology, Terry Osborne, Winter 2019

GEOG 37, Climate for Human Security, Justin Mankin, Summer 2019

GEOG 16.01, A Climate for Human Security, Justin Mankin, Spring 2021

ANTH 55, Anthropology of Global Health, Anne Sosin, Spring 2021

ANTH 7.05, Animals and Humans, Laura Ogden, Winter 2022

GEOG 31.01, Postcolonial Geographies, Erin Collins, Winter 2022

ANTH 50.05, Environmental Archaeology, Madeleine McLeester, Winter 2022

ANTH 50.05, Environmental Archaeology, Madeleine McLeester, Winter 2022

ARTH 5.01, Introduction to Contemporary Art, Mary Coffey and Chad Elias, Winter 2022

ANTH 3.01, Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, Chelsey Kivland, Summer 2022

ANTH 3.01, Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, Chelsey Kivland, Summer 2022

SPAN 65.15, Wonderstruck: Archives and the Production of Knowledge in an Unequal World, Silvia Spitta and Barbara Goebel, Summer 2022

Environmental Studies 80.08, The Practice of Science Policy Diplomacy, Melody Brown Burkins, Spring 2023

Environmental Studies 80.08, The Practice of Science Policy Diplomacy, Melody Brown Burkins, Spring 2023

Geography 16.01, A Climate for Human Security, Justin Mankin, Spring 2023

Exhibition History

Looking Back at Earth: Contemporary Environmental Photography from the Hood Museum of Art Collection, Friends Gallery and the Owen Robertson Cheatham Gallery, Hood Mueum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, July 7-August 26, 2012.

This Land: American Engagement with the Natural World, Luise and Morton Kaish Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 5–April 19, 2022.

Provenance

Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; sold to present collection, 2012.

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