Jonathan Marquis- Wilderness Walking Artist Talk

In 2024, artist and mountaineer, Jonathan Marquis completed the Glacier Drawing Project, a long-term endeavor to see and draw every named glacier in Montana. Marquis will reveal the stories behind his decades long project and will debut Wilderness Walking, a series of drawings made during his glacier-training trips in Montana wilderness areas.

Marquis has walked thousands of miles through mountainous terrain to create the only hand-drawn record of the fifty-nine named glacial features in Montana’s Crown of the Continent and Greater Yellowstone ecosystems. Every year, the artist visits new glaciers, revisits others, and often draws from mountain summits that grant glimpses into some of Earth’s most iconic and intact wildland geographies. The artist’s talk is presented in collaboration with the closing of Something to Hold, The Glacier Drawing Project on display at the Missoula Art Museum and is generously sponsored by the Missoula Public Library Foundation. Wilderness Walking will be on view on the 4th floor of the Missoula Public Library throughout the month of December.