SUAG Hosts 'Climate Stories' Exhibition, Related Events January 24-March 29
By SU Public Relations
SALISBURY, MD---Salisbury University Art Galleries (SUAG) Downtown hosts the exhibition “Climate Stories” Friday, January 24-Saturday, March 29.
Additional events at SUAG Downtown as part of the exhibition are:
- Lynn Cazabon artist talk: 5:30 p.m., Thursday, February 20: Cazabon is a multimedia artist whose projects employ participation as a strategy to deepen public engagement between environmental and social issues. Her project, Emotional Climate, made possible by a 2024 Fulbright Senior Scholar Award, includes short statements from people in the state of Queensland, Australia, expressing their emotions in response to climate change.
- Exhibition reception: 5-7 p.m. Friday, February 21
- Lionel Frazier White III artist talk: 5:30 p.m. Thursday, March 27: White is an interdisciplinary conceptual artist exploring themes of how forced and coerced labor affects family pathology, erasure, displacement, reassertion and gentrification. From the DC area, he is a passionate arts educator and earned his B.F.A. from The George Washington University Corcoran School of Art and Design.
- Storytelling for Climate Change with Shane Hall: 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 5: Personal storytelling can help communities take up bold conversations and build more resilience in the face of climate change. Join us for this interactive workshop where you’ll listen to personal “climate stories” and begin to tell your own.
- Wicomico River Stories with Gina Bloodsworth and Shane Hall: 1 p.m. Saturday, March 29: The place we now call Salisbury has always shaped – and been shaped by – the Wicomico River. Join our “mobile classroom” to explore the oftenoverlooked stories and features of Salisbury’s downtown and waterfront.
The exhibition features works from Leigh Davis, Sondra Arkin, Ellyn Weiss, Cazabon and White III.
Floods, migration, emotion, grief and the gift of life on Earth are the components of this group exhibition about climate change featuring artists’ projects that explore our present state of weather emergencies and how we navigate them.
Co-sponsored by the Environmental Studies Department, admission is free and the public is invited.
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