He lives in Madison where he works as a pianist, composer, teacher, arranger, artist, graphic designer, and sound engineer, and as a member of the Mr. He went on to continue his musical education at UW-Oshkosh, where he earned a Bachelor’s of Music in Recording Technology/ Music Industry and at UW-Madison where he studied both classical and jazz, and earned a Master of Music in Piano Performance. Jason Kutz grew up in Kiel, a small town in Manitowoc and Calumet counties, where at a young age he began studying piano and percussion. When the exhibit went up in late 2021, ongoing restrictions prevented the the residency as it had been planned, so Kutz pivoted to creating a video to accompany his composition. Unfortunately, the pandemic interfered, the exhibition was postponed, and the commission had to be re-imagined. The commission envisioned Kutz working on the composition at the gallery, interacting with visitors, and then performing the piece at the Overture Center at the close of the exhibition. In 2021, Jason Kutz, a Wisconsin musician, composer, and a friend of Bruce Crownover, was commissioned to develop a piece inspired by Crownover’s prints in The Last Glacier project, and to create a video featuring that composition and images of those prints. They also work closely with writers and curators, and in at least one instance, a musician. By engaging directly with climatologists and glaciologists, the artists’ work is grounded in accurate, up-to-date scientific information. Over the years, the three artists have expanded their work to creatively document the impact of our warming planet on glaciers through larger collaborations with scientists in glacial landscapes in Colorado, Canada, Iceland, Tanzania, and beyond. The project is a collaboration between three artists of international renown-printmakers Bruce Crownover and Todd Anderson and photographer Ian van Coller-begun in 2010 in response to the stunningly rapid retreat of glaciers in Montana’s Glacier National Park (in 1850 there were 150 glaciers in the park today only 25 of these remain, and these are predicted to disappear by the end of the century). The Last Glacier project, dedicated to capturing the fading majesty of Earth’s remaining glaciers, was exhibited at the James Watrous Gallery November 12, 2021–January 23, 2022.
This is a story about creative, unlikely collaborations, and connections between artists, scientists, and musicians.
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