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National Science Foundation Antarctic Artists and Writers Program Portfolio

CAE2405

Summary Note

The 1993 National Science Foundation Artists and Writers Program participants created twenty-three exhibition panels, reflecting the creative output for that year.

Biographical Note

Biographical Note: National Science Foundation Artists and Writers Program
Starting in 1959 the National Science Foundation began hosting artists to accompany scientists working in the Antarctic at field camps and stations. This practice was formalized by NSF into the Visiting Antarctica Artists and Writers Program, then later called Antarctic Artists and Writers Program (NSF AAWP). The program continued until 2019, after hosting 122 creatives on the ice. The program was re-envisioned in 2022 as Polar STEAM, run by an interdisciplinary team at Oregan State University. Biographical Note: Jody Forster
Photographer Jody Forster (1948-2020) visited Antarctic with the NSF AAWP in 1982 with painter Peter Nesbit from Santa Fe and then again in 1985 as a solo artist. His photographs taken in the field used an 8 x 10” view camera on a heavy-duty tripod. He was the only artist to photograph the continent with a full-sized view camera since the Heroic Age, given that most modern landscape photographers had switched to lighter and smaller format equipment. He later toured his Antarctic work internationally.

Scope and Content

The National Science Foundation Antarctic Artists and Writers Program Portfolio resulted from the 1993 AAWP (Antarctic Artists and Writers Program) workshop. During the workshop the painter Alan Campbell suggested the portfolio idea and managed its production. After all the work was submitted, Alan provided the material to the National Science Foundation, which arranged for printing as an outcome of the NSF-sponsored workshop. Initial distribution was to the workshop participants, but the NSF printed enough copies to be able to give them to anyone who expressed interest in the Antarctic Artists and Writers Program.

The 1993 National Science Foundation Visiting Antarctica Artists and Writers Program participants created a set of 23 matted panels that reflect the creative output for that year’s participants. The set includes a title panel; a text panel; eight writer panels, one each by Elizabeth Arthur, Kenneth J. Bertrand, Donald Finkel, Louis J. Halle, Barry Lopez, Charles Neider, Michael Parfit, Stephen J. Pyne; and, thirteen artist panels one each featuring reproductions of artworks by Nena Allen, Alan Campbell, Neelon Crawford, Lucia de Leiris, Jennifer Owens Dewey, Jody Forster, Anne Hawthorne, Rebecca L. Johnson, Stuart D. Klipper, Daniel Lang, Galen Rowell, William Stout, James N. Westwater.

A set of these materials was donated by the artists and writers participating to the National Science Foundation, where they hung until the NSF relocated from Reston to Alexandria, Virginia. At that time NSF decided to not post anything on its walls (part of going paperless), and the panels were retired. This set belonged to photographer Jody Forster (1948-2020), who visited Antarctic with the NSF AAWP in 1982 and 1985.

Arrangement

This archive is arranged into one folder that represents the portfolio.

Inclusive Dates

1993

Bulk Dates

1993

Language

English

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  • CAE1117: William L. Fox: Terra Antarctica
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  • CAE1217: Paul D. Miller, aka DJ Spooky that Subliminal Kid: Ice Music
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Related Publications

Arthur, Elizabeth. Antarctic Navigation. New York, NY: Knopf; Distributed by Random House, 1995.

Artipelag. Land Meets Water: European and American Photography from 1860 to the Present. Stockholm, Sweden: Artipelag, 2015.

Crawford, Neelon. Neelon Crawford, Antarctica: January 15-February 23, 1991, New York, NY: Witkin Gallery, 1990.

Crawford, Neelon. Neelon Crawford, Ramparts of Ice, Washington, DC: National Academy of Sciences, 1994.

Dewey, Jennifer. Antarctic Journal: Four Months at the Bottom of the World. New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 2001.

Finkel, Donald. Endurance: An Antarctic Idyll. New York, NY: Atheneum, 1978.

Klipper, Stuart. Cardinal Points: Photographs by Stuart Klipper: The University of Iowa Museum of Art, September 5 to October 25, 1998. Iowa City, IA: The University of Iowa Museum of Art, 1998.

Klipper, Stuart. Stuart Klipper: The World in a Few States. St. Peter, MN: Hillstrom Museum of Art, 2018.

Klipper, Stuart. The Antarctic: From the Circle to the Pole. San Francisco, CA: Chronicle Books, 2008.

Klipper, Stuart. The Barents Sea, Franz Josef Land, The Arctic Ocean & The North Pole: July 2009. Self-published: Klipper, Stuart, 2009.

Lopez, Barry Holstun. Arctic Dreams: Imagination and Desire in a Northern Landscape. New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1986.

Milwaukee Art Museum. Photographs from the Ends of the Earth. Milwaukee, WI: Milwaukee Art Museum, 2007.

Neider, Charles. Beyond Cape Horn: Travels in the Antarctic. San Francisco, CA: Sierra Club Books, 1980.

Neider, Charles. Edge of the World, Ross Island, Antarctica: A Personal & Historical Narrative of Exploration, Adventure, Tragedy & Survival. New York, NY: Cooper Square Press, 2001.

Rowell, Galen A. Poles Apart: Parallel Visions of the Arctic and Antarctic. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1995.

University of Wyoming. Antarctica. Laramie, WY: University of Wyoming Art Museum, 2007.

Container Listing:

  • ARCH-FILE 114-1

    • Folder 1 1993 NSF Artists and Writers Portfolio, 1993

Additional Materials

    Archive F35 Oversized Items

    • 1#1 Title Page, Portfolio Page, 1993
    • 1#2 Portfolio Exhibition Text Page, Portfolio Page, 1993
    • 1#3 Nena Allen, Portfolio Page, 1993
    • 1#4 Elizabeth Arthur, Portfolio Page, 1993
    • 1#5 Kenneth J. Bertrand, Portfolio Page, 1993
    • 1#6 Alan Campbell, Portfolio Page, 1993
    • 1#7 Neelon Crawford, Portfolio Page, 1993
    • 1#8 Lucia deLeiris, Portfolio Page, 1993
    • 1#9 Jennifer Owens Dewey, Portfolio Page, 1993
    • 1#10 Donald Finkel, Portfolio Page, 1993
    • 1#11 Jody Forster, Portfolio Page, 1993
    • 1#12 Louis J. Halle, Portfolio Page, 1993
    • 1#13 Ann Hawthorne, Portfolio Page, 1993
    • 1#14 Rebecca L. Johnson, Portfolio Page, 1993
    • 1#15 Stuart D. Klipper, Portfolio Page, 1993
    • 1#16 Daniel Lang, Portfolio Page, 1993
    • 1#17 Barry Lopez, Portfolio Page, 1993
    • 1#18 Charles Neider, Portfolio Page, 1993
    • 1#19 Michael Parfit, Portfolio Page, 1993
    • 1#20 Stephen J. Pyne, Portfolio Page, 1993
    • 1#21 Galen Rowell, Portfolio Page, 1993
    • 1#22 William Stout, Portfolio Page, 1993
    • 1#23 James Westwater, Portfolio Page, 1993