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Environmental artist to speak at SLU Wednesday

Posted 3/28/16

CANTON -- St. Lawrence University’s Department of Art and Art History will host environmental artist Ann T. Rosenthal from 5 to 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, March 30, in Griffiths Arts Center, room 123. …

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Environmental artist to speak at SLU Wednesday

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CANTON -- St. Lawrence University’s Department of Art and Art History will host environmental artist Ann T. Rosenthal from 5 to 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, March 30, in Griffiths Arts Center, room 123. The event is free and open to the public.

Rosenthal brings more than 30 years of experience as an artist, educator and writer. Her art installations address the local manifestation of global concerns, including climate change, food safety and nuclear waste. Her most recent project, “Moving Targets” with Steffi Domike, parallels the extinction of the passenger pigeon in 1914 with the forced migration of the artists’ forbears from the Ukraine to North America in 1910.

Her lecture, “Art in the Anthropocene,” will survey artists’ responses to the Anthropocene, a popular term used to describe the current geological period, beginning with the Industrial Revolution, when humans began having a decisive influence on the state of the Earth. Rosenthal’s lecture and her work help to raise the question: How can artists contribute to sustainable social and environmental change?

For more information, contact 229-5166 or visit www.stlawu.edu/art-and-art-history.