Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2020 |4PM – 5:15PM
LOCAL ECOLOGIES Panel Discussion: “Life of the Merrimack”
UMass Lowell
Coburn Hall 255
850 Broadway Street, Lowell, MA
John Macone (Merrimack River Watershed Council)
Evelyn Rydz (MassArt)
Caitlin & Misha* (UML Dept. of Art + Design)
*an artist collective comprised of Caitlin Foley and Misha Rabinovich.
Organized by Kirsten Swenson (UMass Lowell Dept. of Art + Design)
January 30, 2020 | 11AM
UMass Lowell, Coburn Hall
“The Mouth: A Merrimack River Project” workshop with artist Evelyn Rydz, followed by artist’s talk and discussion with Professor Lori Weeden (Environmental, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences)
November 26, 2019 | 3:30 pm
UMass Lowell, Weed Lecture Hall 3
“Reshaping the Shape: Art in the Ecosystem”
Andrew S. Yang (School of the Art Institute of Chicago)
Yang’s talk followed by discussion with Rocky Morrison, founder and director of the Clean River Project, Methuen, Mass.
November 19, 2019 | 3:30 pm
To Understand a Tree, and Other Projects: Guest artist Gina Siepel will discuss her recent multidisciplinary projects focused on area ecologies of Western Massachusetts. UMASS Dartmouth, CVPA 153, Main Campus, followed by Star Store visit to LOCAL ECOLOGIES with exhibition curator.
Thursday, November 14, 2019 | 6 – 8:30 pm
LOCAL ECOLOGIES opening reception. UMASS Dartmouth, University Art Gallery, Star Store Campus, New Bedford
6:30 PM: Roundtable discussion with exhibition curators, artists, and program partners, featuring: artist Dan Borelli, collaborating artists of Plotform (Jane Marsching + Andi Sutton), Tufts University/SMFA curator Abigail Satinsky, Ranger Andy Schnetzer, Dr. Kirsten Swenson (UMass Lowell), and Gallery Director Sam Toabe (UMass Boston). Moderated by Dr. Rebecca Uchill. Introduction by UMass Dartmouth Gallery Director Viera Levitt.
Tuesday, October 8, 2019 | 2:30 – 6pm
INDIGENOUS BOSTON HARBOR
organized by artists Nicholas Brown & Sarah Kanouse
a free boat tour of the Boston Harbor Islands and walking tour of Deer Island. The tour, led by Elizabeth Solomon (Massachusett), Nia Holley (Nipmuc), and Faries Gray (Massachusett), will focus on Indigenous relationships—past, present, and future—with the Harbor Islands, particularly Deer, Thompson, Long, Moon, Spectacle, and Peddocks Island.
WHERE: Meet at the Fox Point Dock (UMass Boston) at 2:30pm for a 3pm departure on the M/V Columbia Point to Deer Island. The boat will return to Fox Point at 6pm.
Click here to register through Eventbrite. Space is limited!
Thursday, October 3, 2019
“Dear Harbor Radio”: Collaborating artists of Plotform (Jane Marsching + Andi Sutton) share their nomadic bike-powered interspecies love letter writing and recording studio, debuting in New Bedford in July through Nov. 2019. CVPA 153, Main Campus.
Thursday, September 19, 2019 | 5 – 8 pmLOCAL ECOLOGIES opening reception. UMASS Boston, University Hall Gallery.
The evening will include a panel discussion with exhibition curators Kirsten Swenson, Sam Toabe, and Rebecca Uchill, followed by a screening of Ecologies of Acknowledgment and talk by artists Sarah Kanouse and Nicholas Brown.
Wednesday, December 5th, 2018 | 3:30 – 5:30 pm
UMass Lowell, O’Leary Library 325
INVISIBILITIES: SEEING AND UNSEEING THE ANTHROPOCENE
Peter L. Galison (History of Science, Harvard) and Caroline A. Jones (Art History, MIT)
Since the 1970s, activists have often assumed that pictures of environmental disaster would mobilize the public against ecological degradation. But there are deep-set patterns of occlusion and revelation in such images. For instance, when does the volunteer cleaning an oil-soaked bird on the shores of Prince William Sound in 1989 impede our capacity to see relations between ecology, regulations, or the political economy of oil extraction and transport? Under water, on the ground, and in the air, images proliferate; states and corporations attempt to control the visual narrative, even as activists and scientists rely on images as never before. We tackle specific cases in order to offer some steps toward a theoretical understanding of how images have formed simultaneous regimes of obscurity and visibility in our times.
Talk followed by panel discussion with Misha Rabinovich (Art & Design, UMass Lowell) and Dr. Juliette Rooney-Varga (Climate Change Initiative, UMass Lowell) moderated by Dr. Rebecca K. Uchill (UMass Dartmouth).