Jill Pelto

Jill Pelto is a climate artist and science communicator currently based in Bellingham, WA. She has a dual background in art and climate science, and her paintings focus on communicating human-environment connections. She incorporates scientific data into watercolor paintings to share the emotion behind these stories of change, whether overwhelming or hopeful. 

Jill is the Art Director of the North Cascade Glacier Climate Project, and much of her career is inspired by her fieldwork on glaciers in Washington state and beyond. Her research has taken her to mountain glaciers in Washington and British Columbia, the Dry Valleys and Transantarctic Mountains of Antarctica, as well as the Falkland Islands and New Zealand.

Jill’s art has been featured on the cover of TIME, in gallery exhibitions, and used extensively in education and outreach activities she leads, working with classrooms to bring her data-art curriculum to students.