The Malaspina and Hubbard glacier project showcases images of these titular glaciers by Patricia Carr Morgan, made in collaboration with Jack Holt, PhD, a renowned planetary scientist who measures glaciers for NASA and Arizona Public Television. The artist traveled to both glaciers and nearby communities to film the glaciers and interview Yakutat locals, whose ancestors migrated across these glaciers and settled nearby.

The Malaspina Glacier is the largest piedmont glacier in the world. Due to its size, it has become the focus of climate change research and studies on sea level rise. Its spectacular looped moraines trace their path from the mountains, and, on the piedmont, support vegetation. The glacier terminates with a sandy beach. The Hubbard Glacier is the largest tidewater glacier in North America and is uniquely advancing rather than receding. It provides valuable information about the dangers of climate change when it intermittently dams the Russell Fjord, posing a danger to the village of Yakutat.

Patricia Carr Morgan has been photographing in Antarctica, Greenland, and Alaska for over ten years and has completed an installation and bodies of photographs addressing diminishing glaciers and climate change. AZPM recognized the importance of this collaboration between art and science at the project’s beginning, sending Emmy Award-winning producer Ozlem Ozgur, MA, MFA, PhD, and senior videographer Nathan Huffman, BA, to film the glaciers and the who will also cover Morgan’s process. AZPM will complete the production of the television program at the opening of Morgan’s exhibiton.