In this volatile (political) climate, wild Christmas tree harvest is more precarious than ever. Allen Myers photographs migrant laborers in northern California as they navigate local ecologies and global economies.
Dongbay creates art to help others reflect, connect, and perceive in the Anthropocene. His Synthetic Totems combine fragments of nature with discarded waste.
Poet Ann Fisher-Wirth collaborates with photographer Wilfried Raussert and a team of translators to interpret street art across the Americas. Together, they illustrate the interconnectedness of people and nature in urban environments.
What does the Anthropocene look like? Angelica Modabber disentangles the complex layers of memory, ecological change, and identity in contemporary Iranian photography.
In this exhibit, Christopher Conz and Christina Balch use archival materials and art to humanize the stories of migrant mining workers of southern Africa and reflect on the environments in which they live, work, die, and resist.
Kate Judith shares a creative and speculative story through the vertiginous voices of the cuckoo and currawong, which underscore the tension between parasitism and care. The currawong’s caregiving is marked by both sacrifice and survival, while the cuckoo’s actions highlight a demolishing invasive behavior. This form reflects the complex, often painful exchanges that define interspecies interactions.
Through this photo exhibit, Steven Haring represents the instabilities of agriculture amid climate uncertainties, as human imposed systems seeking to enhance agricultural productivity test the limits of fluctuating natural systems.
Tomiko Jones embarks on a photographic project exploring deregulated public lands and questioning constructions of national belonging.
After a long and dirty journey, artist Tory Tepp has found community in the creation of the Sauk County ARK earthwork.
Benjamin Keenan shares how his “Itzan” project translating geochemical data into artwork with digital artist Tim Thomasson can evoke consideration of current environmental crises.
