Tag Archives: climate change
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Indigenous Knowledge and Climate Change
Finally, museums are offering us exhibitions that directly address climate change. “Arctic Highways” at the National Nordic Museum, until November 26, features twelve Indigenous artists from the circumpolar North (Sápmi, Canada, and Alaska) who address “the silent and the silenced knowledge” of their Sámi culture. Laila Susanna Kuhmunen opens […]
This entry was posted on October 23, 2023 and is filed under Uncategorized. -
Mygration: Sámi Reindeer Herders in Alaska
Note: this article was published in a slightly different form in Art Access, and Leschi News. Mygration : Tomas Colbengtson and Stina Folkebrant National Nordic Museum until March 5 Did you know that Rudolf, the celebrity reindeer of Santa’s sleigh would have to be a female. Male reindeers shed their antlers in the winter. […]
This entry was posted on December 27, 2022 and is filed under climate change, Uncategorized. -
Hew Locke “The Procession” at the Tate Britain
On our trip to London one of the most exciting experiences was seeing Hew Locke’s “Procession” filling the central court of the Tate Britain with its brilliant collaged figures entirely constructed from recycled materials. The Tate is on the site of a former prison, which I wrote about in 2017. Now we […]
This entry was posted on May 30, 2022 and is filed under Uncategorized. -
Climate Calamities and Mt Rainier (Tahoma)
I wanted to announce the launching of my new website Climate Calamities. I am inspired by two different impulses: my father Rutherford Platt’s career as a naturalist and explorer, particularly in the Arctic. His writings such as This Green World, Our Flowering World, and the River of Life, are filled with the wonder […]
This entry was posted on August 26, 2020 and is filed under ecology. -
“Climate Change Alert through Arctic Aesthetics” by Jean Bundy, Art Critic based in Anchorage Alaska
This paper was presented in the International Art Critics Association session at the College Art Association February 2020 Jean Bundy is the Climate Change Envoy for AICA-INTERNATIONAL Introduction In the Eighteenth Century Captain Cook era, when exploration and desired acquisition of the Pacific Northwest was mapped and illustrated, it became evident that these locations had […]
This entry was posted on March 19, 2020 and is filed under Uncategorized. -
Mary Coss’s “Groundswell” Tells About Salination and Climate Change
During a recent residency, Mary Coss was growing barnacles on Willapa Bay, the second largest estuary in the United States (over 260 square miles!) The artist described the process to me in detail: first she coated a wire mesh with cement snags to attract the barnacles, then dragged it over an […]
This entry was posted on March 23, 2019 and is filed under Art and Activism, Art and Ecology, Contemporary Art, Uncategorized. -
The Artnauts: A Global Collective of Artists for Peace
The Artnauts, an art collective, travel to places of conflict and collaborate with artists in places such as Palestine, Guatemala, Bosnia, the Amazon, even China.
This entry was posted on December 3, 2016 and is filed under Art and Activism, Art and Ecology, Art and Politics Now, art criticism, Uncategorized. -
Break Free From Fossil Fuels Pacific Northwest Anacortes
Break Free From Fossil Fuels Pacific Northwest a coming together of more than a thousand people, on land and sea, to insist on working together to end the plundering the earth.
This entry was posted on May 18, 2016 and is filed under Art and Activism, Art and Ecology, Art and Politics Now, Backbone Campaign, Contemporary Art, ecology, global justice, indians, Indigenous activism, Uncategorized. -
Led by Indigenous voices, all ages protest Arctic Drilling
From Indigenous poets to Raging Grannies, from children and youth to college students, to people of every age, everyone is participating in the protest of Shell’s Polar Pioneer oil drilling platform with creative non violent civil disobedience at its best
This entry was posted on June 11, 2015 and is filed under American Art, Art and Activism, Art and Ecology, Art and Politics Now, art criticism, Contemporary Art, Contemporary Indigenous Art, ecology, First Nations Art, Indigenous Art, Seattle Art, Uncategorized. -
The Common SENSE: Ann Hamilton at the Henry Art Gallery
Ann Hamilton’s “The Common SENSE” at the Henry Art Gallery embraces our relationship to the planet in a surprisingly disturbing sequence of installations.
This entry was posted on November 4, 2014 and is filed under Art and Politics Now, art criticism, Conceptual Art, Contemporary Art, ecology, John Berger, Uncategorized. -
Sonic Time: Speech Sound Silence at the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Athens
Classic conceptual art, Greek contemporary Conceptual Art and their shared concerns.
This entry was posted on October 31, 2012 and is filed under Contemporary Art.
