Category: Exhibits

A close up of rocks, sticks, and plastic objects.

Contaminated Art on the Plastic Archipelago

On the metropolitan archipelago of Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang, where planstic intermingles with organic matter, mixed media artist Alex Côté Hallé creates art that intertwines the urban, the fluvial, and the queer.

close up of a chain link fence covered in vines and snow

Winter’s Muted Garden

What does a garden become in winter? Émilie Gervais explores winter’s sensory and narrative landscape through a community garden’s fence.

A brown snake curled up on a brown, rocky ground between a large rock and a shrub.

Mapping the Social Lives of Rattlesnakes

For many people, rattlesnakes are scary at worst, mysterious at best. Amber Aumiller maps rattlesnakes’ social lives and where they intersect with humans’ in Utah’s San Rafael Swell. These desert kin, she shows, are much more complex than most people imagine.

An owl's wings are visible against a dark background in the bottom left-hand corner of the screen.

Camera Trap Poetics

After the Woolsey Fire devastated the Santa Monica Mountains in California, researchers placed trail cameras to observe the return of wildlife. Chase A. Niesner composed and performed “Signs of Life” from the images captured. In this exhibit, he reflects on the essence of being and the passage of time captured in this great return.

A woman in profile with long dark hair gazes up toward the light

Poetic Encounters Across Borders

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.