The Roger Tory Peterson Institute will open its next exhibit Friday, celebrating one of the harshest and most beautiful landscapes on earth.

Through the National Science Foundation’s Antarctic Artists and Writers Program, artist Helen Glazer spent two months in remote, scientific field camps, with access to protected areas that may be entered only with government permits. She took more than 5,000 images, along with extensive field notes, from which she has produced archival pigment prints, sculptures and an audio narrative.

“As an artist,” Glazer says, “I focus attention on places that are often overlooked or inaccessible, capturing the remarkable variety of ways that wind and water shape the landscape. My photographs and photo-based sculptures take you on a journey through these spaces and illuminate the interacting forces affecting environments and ecosystems.”

Walking in Antarctica is an immersive, interdisciplinary exhibition, organized as a series of “walks” through remarkable Antarctic landscapes: over frozen lakes, around towering glaciers and baroque sea ice formations, into a magnificent frozen ice cave, across fields of surreal-looking boulders, and through a lively colony of nesting Adelie penguins.

“We are thrilled to be hosting Walking in Antarctica,” says Arthur Pearson, CEO of the Roger Tory Peterson Institute. “Roger Tory Peterson traveled to Antarctica several times. His original artwork celebrating penguins – his favorite bird – will be on display in the Anderson Gallery.”

The exhibition opens Friday and ends March 16. Glazer will be in attendance for the opening night celebration and present a short program on Friday from 5:30 to 8 p.m. The Roger Tory Peterson Institute is located at 311 Curtis St., Jamestown.

Walking in Antarctica is an exhibition of ExhibitsUSA, a national division of Mid-America Arts Alliance and The National Endowment for the Arts. RTPI’s presentation of this exhibition is made possible by sponsors Lee and Courtney Peterson, Jack and Donna Jones Fahlen, and Honest John’s Restaurant and Pizzeria.