For more information:
CONTACT: Eric Ford
P 802.865-5355
E eford@ci.burlington.vt.us
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Human = Landscape Closing Reception at the Firehouse Center October 24th
Burlington, VT: (October 16, 2009) On Saturday, October 24th from 3-6pm, join activists, community members, and artists in Burlington’s City Hall Park and Burlington City Arts’ Firehouse Center on Church Street for a closing reception of the exhibition Human = Landscape featuring speakers, performance, discussions and environmental action.
As part of the current exhibition Human = Landscape at the Firehouse Center, artist and UVM Professor Cameron Davis presented the Dear World Project, an installation at the Firehouse Center for the Visual Arts composed of “small works” from many contributors in the community, who were invited to participate throughout the two month exhibition of Human = Landscape. Each artist was asked to create artwork as a response to www.350.org’s Call to Action, a Non-Governmental Organization initiative working internationally to organize and promote climate awareness and change.
Beginning at 3pm, on the 24th at locations around the city including the University of Vermont’s Ira Allen Chapel and the Firehouse Center, tower bells will be rung 350 times to bring awareness to 350.orgs mission promoting awareness of carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere and it’s relationship to global warming. Performers will walk in silence from three sites: the UVM campus, Viva Espresso Café, and Magnolia Bistro, to the Firehouse Gallery and City Hall Park handing out the small works created as part of the Dear World Project to onlookers. On the back of each work of art is info about the 350.org day of action. For more information about the global day of action, please visit http://www.350.org/.
Also at 3pm, artists Nancy Dwyer, Ethan Bond-Watts and Rebecca Schwarz from the Human = Landscape exhibition and 350.org guest speakers including ecologist, activist and Middlebury College research scholar Amy Seidl will give talks in the gallery. The procession will culminate in City Hall Park around 4pm, to be followed by a series of speakers on the back plaza of the Firehouse Center and a formal panel discussion entitled Art and Environmental Intervention, featuring artists Cameron Davis, John Anderson, Patrick Marold and Firehouse Gallery Curator Christopher Thompson.
E eford@ci.burlington.vt.us
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Human = Landscape Closing Reception at the Firehouse Center October 24th
Burlington, VT: (October 16, 2009) On Saturday, October 24th from 3-6pm, join activists, community members, and artists in Burlington’s City Hall Park and Burlington City Arts’ Firehouse Center on Church Street for a closing reception of the exhibition Human = Landscape featuring speakers, performance, discussions and environmental action.
As part of the current exhibition Human = Landscape at the Firehouse Center, artist and UVM Professor Cameron Davis presented the Dear World Project, an installation at the Firehouse Center for the Visual Arts composed of “small works” from many contributors in the community, who were invited to participate throughout the two month exhibition of Human = Landscape. Each artist was asked to create artwork as a response to www.350.org’s Call to Action, a Non-Governmental Organization initiative working internationally to organize and promote climate awareness and change.
Beginning at 3pm, on the 24th at locations around the city including the University of Vermont’s Ira Allen Chapel and the Firehouse Center, tower bells will be rung 350 times to bring awareness to 350.orgs mission promoting awareness of carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere and it’s relationship to global warming. Performers will walk in silence from three sites: the UVM campus, Viva Espresso Café, and Magnolia Bistro, to the Firehouse Gallery and City Hall Park handing out the small works created as part of the Dear World Project to onlookers. On the back of each work of art is info about the 350.org day of action. For more information about the global day of action, please visit http://www.350.org/.
Also at 3pm, artists Nancy Dwyer, Ethan Bond-Watts and Rebecca Schwarz from the Human = Landscape exhibition and 350.org guest speakers including ecologist, activist and Middlebury College research scholar Amy Seidl will give talks in the gallery. The procession will culminate in City Hall Park around 4pm, to be followed by a series of speakers on the back plaza of the Firehouse Center and a formal panel discussion entitled Art and Environmental Intervention, featuring artists Cameron Davis, John Anderson, Patrick Marold and Firehouse Gallery Curator Christopher Thompson.
OCTOBER 24th SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
2pm: Artists and activists gather at various locations and begin walk to Firehouse Center and City Hall Park
3pm: Tower bells at Ira Allen Chapel, The Firehouse Center and other locations are rung 350 times.
3pm – 6pm: Closing reception at the Firehouse Center for the exhibition Human = Landscape.
3pm: Speakers in the Firehouse Gallery:
· Ethan Bond-Watts, Human = Landscape artist
· Nancy Dwyer, Human = Landscape artist
· Rebecca Schwarz, Human = Landscape artist
· Amy Seidl, Ecologist, activist and Middlebury College research scholar
4pm: Speakers on the Firehouse Plaza in City Hall Park:
· Orin Langelle, Global Justice Ecology Project
· Elizabeth Sawin, Program Director, Sustainability Institute
· Jeff Wolfe, CEO, groSolar
4:30pm: Panel Discussion in the Firehouse Center, Art and Environmental Intervention, featuring artists Cameron Davis, John Anderson, Patrick Marold and Firehouse Gallery Curator Christopher Thompson.
Human = Landscape: Aesthetics of a Carbon Constrained Future, is a part of
Energy Project Vermont, a partnership between ECHO Lake Aquarium and Science
Center at the Leahy Center for Lake Champlain and BCA, with the support of the
University of Vermont. Human = Landscape is sponsored by The Jan & David Blittersdorf Foundation, The Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation, The National Endowment for the Arts, Seventh Generation, Green Mountain Power, Burlington International Airport, and the Lintilhac Foundation, and is an important part of Burlington City Arts, which is dedicated to the promotion of excellence, experimentation, and education in all forms of contemporary art. For more information about gallery exhibitions, special events, classes and workshops, please call 802.865.7166 or visit BURLINGTONCITYARTS.COM.
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