(4.6) As part of its three-year theme on Arts and Environment, the Brown Arts Initiative brings together artists, scientists, researchers and others in symposia that address issues around climate change in the polar regions. They want you to register. Details and schedule at ‘Polar Opposites: Creative Interventions in the Arctic and Antarctica.’
A discussion titled “Knowing Ice” examines the connections between Arctic art and science. In “Art, Polarities and Politics,” a playwright, an arts advocate and an Arctic researcher discuss the intersections of politics, economics and policies in ways that address the changing polar environments, the shifting nature of custodianship and how artists are bringing attention to issues affecting the poles. The event lineup also includes a keynote by David Buckland, an artist, filmmaker, writer, designer and curator whose work is focused on climate change in the Arctic.
The Bell Gallery will be presenting 33° in conjunction with ‘Polar Opposites.’
Sound artist Jacob Kirkegaard, one of the six artists featured in the David Winton Bell Gallery’s exhibition “33°,” will discuss his work at the exhibition’s formal opening. The exhibition, which confronts the crisis of climate change and the threat of ice melt and sea level rise, includes Kirkegaard’s recording of sounds captured below a calving glacier as well as the work of five photographers who document Greenland and the polar regions. A reception will follow the talk.
Seen here is “Greenland Ice Sheet” by James Balog in which Adam Le Winter surveys Birthday Canyon. (You can see a tiny figure in the distance standing way too close to the front of an icy promontory.) This mural is on the Prince Engineering Lab on Brook Street.
Photomurals by Becker, Seaman, Balog, de Pomereu, and Roy will be displayed on the exterior of buildings across Brown’s campus.
‘Polar Opposites,’ free and open to the public, Thursday, April 5/Friday, April 6, Martinos Auditorium, Granoff Center, 154 Angell Street, (directions)