NASA Partners with Artist Justin Guariglia to Document Climate Change in Greenland

NASA has officially partnered with artist Justin Guariglia to document climate change in Greenland, marking the first time an artist has been embedded in a NASA mission. The collaboration, announced by the New York Times, is not a residency or award but a genuine partnership funded by private sources through 2020. Guariglia began documenting glacial melt in 2015 after persuading NASA to let him join a military flight expedition over Greenland. His large-scale landscape photographs, taken from high altitudes, incorporate painting, engraving, and sculptural elements to reveal the fragility of rapidly evolving glacial ice. His work focuses on the Anthropocene, the epoch of human impact on Earth. Born in New Jersey in 1974, Guariglia lives and works in New York and spent about 20 years in Asia, combining art with photojournalism. NASA selected his research believing art can document planetary changes and communicate them emotionally more effectively than scientific outreach.