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Select exhibitions & projects include: The Hyde Collection Museum, Glens Falls (NY), The Latimer House Museum, New York (NY), Art in Odd Places, New York (NY), International Polar Year Conference, Oslo (NO), The Painting Center, New York (NY), Printed Matter, New York (NY), Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit (MI), Arts House, Melbourne (AU) and Chiesa di San Lorenzo, Florence (IT). She has been awarded residencies at The Albers Foundation in Bethany (CT), NES in Skagaströnd (IS), at the CAMAC Centre of Art, Science and Technology in France, and with Rosenclaire in Italy. She was nominated for a Rema Hort Mann Grant. She teaches at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and she has lectured at Columbia University, Concordia University, OCAD University, and The Art Institute of Florence, Italy.
Her works are funded by The Canada Council for the Arts and are in the collections of the Musée National Des Beaux-Arts du Quebec, the Collection Prêt d’Oeuvres d’Art, the Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec (BAnQ), Montreal (QC), the Bank of Montreal, Toronto and the Consulate General of Monaco, Montreal.
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On the twenty-second of December, 1909, we reached the South Pole… Nothing of any kind marked the dreary whiteness. We discussed leaving some kind of mark or monument, a snow cairn, a tent pole and flag; but there seemed no particular reason to do so.
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Born of sight and memory
Jessica Houston
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All that week the blizzard wind pursued us like a pack of mad dogs... I wished we had not gone to the Pole. I think I wish it even now.
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We were by then all a little crazy with exhaustion and the great altitude twelve thousand feet—and the cold and the wind blowing luminous circles and crosses surrounding the suns, for often there were three or four suns in the sky, up there…
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We were in for one severe shock - Teresa was pregnant…on February 14th, she went into labor. ‘I shall name her Rosa—Rosa del Sur,’ Rose of the South
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Step by step we went…We were fifteen days on the glacier…at every day’s advance more great, nameless peaks came into view…We gave names to these peaks, not very seriously, since we did not expect our discoveries to come to the attention of geographers.
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The Yelcho anchored and we went ashore in a ship’s boat.
Jessica Houston
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