Here's some "cool" info from the City of Temecula:
Cool off this summer by visiting the Walking in Antarctica exhibit. The immersive exhibit, created by artist Helen Glazer, combines photography, sculpture, and audio narrative to take the viewer on a journey through an extraordinary environment. The exhibition is organized as a series of ‘walks’ through remarkable Antarctic landscapes: over frozen lakes, around glaciers, into an ice cave, and through a lively colony of nesting Adélie penguins. Visitors with smartphones will be able to access an audio tour narrated by Glazer, documenting her experiences. Walking in Antarctica opens FRI, JUN 16, 2023 at the Temecula Valley Museum.
In 2015, artist Helen Glazer traveled to Antarctica as a grantee of the National Science Foundation’s Antarctic Artists and Writers Program, in order to photograph ice and geological formations for eventual production as photographic prints and sculpture. She worked out of remote Antarctic scientific field camps and had access to protected areas that can only be entered with government permits or in the company of a skilled mountaineer
Through her artwork, Glazer strives to convey the wonder and complexity of the natural world to others, to motivate a desire to protect and preserve wild places. Her study of earth science over the past several years heightened her awareness of multiple factors shaping the land over time. In recognizing that complex patterns in nature express the physical forces at work, she became more attuned to the interplay between geology, climate, life forms, and human activity in each location.
In conjunction with Walking in Antarctica, on SAT, JUL 29, 2023, at 1:00 pm, the museum invites residents, and visitors of Temecula to attend a Gallery talk, Walking in Antarctica with Helen Glazer. Artist Helen Glazer will talk about photographing and 3D-scanning an extraordinary environment that few people ever visit — walking over towering glaciers, on top of frozen lakes, inside a magnificent ice cave, across fields of surreal boulders, and through a penguin colony, with plenty of opportunities for Q & A. Please call 951-679-6450 to RSVP.