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<\/a>The exhibit is posted as a Facebook event: http:\/\/on.fb.me\/1T6XHsn. <\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\nAll project events are posted on the LETUS website: http:\/\/bit.ly\/1ngBiuv<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n LAWRENCE — \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Heating Up: Artists Respond to Climate Change\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/i>is an art exhibit and month-long series of cultural and educational events scheduled for March and April in Lawrence, Kansas. The project brings together dozens of local and regional artists, poets, educators and performers working on climate change. A panel discussion in April includes a combination of nationally active and prominent local voices.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The exhibit \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Heating up: Artists Respond to Climate Change,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/strong> opens on Final Friday, March 25, 2016, 5 – 10pm, at the Lawrence Percolator located in the alley east of New Hampshire St. between 9th<\/sup> St. and 10th<\/sup> St., behind the Lawrence Arts Center. The opening will feature three brief performances. At 7 and 9 pm, Robert Baker will read poetry by Langston Hughes and the band Ovaries-eez will perform. At 8 pm, local poets Dennis Etzel, Sandy Hazlett, Denise Low, Topher Enneking, Nancy Hubble, and Mary Wharff will read from their poetry, and Doug Hitt will briefly speak about his co-authored book A Kansas Bestiary<\/i>. <\/b>The exhibit runs March 25 – April 23 and is open Saturdays and Sundays, noon – 5pm.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We hope that the exhibit bolsters a community conversation about climate change and what we can do about it,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said committee co-chair Lora Jost.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The exhibit includes the work of 42 local and regional artists with diverse viewpoints, some working in teams. The exhibit includes art by professionals and non-professionals, among them professors and students alike.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We wanted to exhibit the work of artists who are already working on climate change as well as to activate others to engage climate change as a new theme in their work,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said committee co-chair Sara Taliaferro.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Art in the exhibit includes paintings, prints, drawings, an artist book, sculptures, and installations. Some of the art pieces concern the roots of climate change and the effects of fossil fuel consumption on the weather, animals, and people. Some of the art pieces convey deep despair. One artist\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s work is a metaphor for creativity born from crisis. Additional art pieces offer hope, visualizing ways to work together toward solutions.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Justin Marable\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s prints, for example, with images of coal smoke, dinosaur bones, birds and buffalo, illustrate how fossil fuel use and consumerism affect the earth and animals. Damia Smith\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s colorful, intricate, enameled copper images reveal how burning coal in the United States brings drought and famine to north Africa.\u00c2\u00a0A painting by Haskell Indian Nations University student Geraldine Walsey shows a woman looking to the past through winged eyes, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153searching for the beauty of what nature once was, and now is rarely seen today.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Laura Ramberg\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s ceramic cloud vessels evoke sharing food and other resources as a way to reduce the need and greed arising from our reliance on fossil fuels. A team of artists (KU Professor Matthew Burke and then students Samuel Balbuena, Cameron Pratte, Vi Stenzel, and Cortney Wise) contributed a functional beehive that, once launched, offers a home for the dwindling honeybee population. Marin Abell\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s whimsical 9-foot long flat-bottomed trolling motorboat, complete with serpent heads, is made with Eurasian Milfoil (an invasive aquatic plant that threatens lakes) and runs on distilled Milfoil ethanol.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Jill Ensley\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s interactive board game playfully asks serious questions about our future: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Will the last iceberg melt?\u00c2\u00a0 Will the pollinators die off?\u00c2\u00a0 Will you opt to take in those climate refugees?\u00c2\u00a0 Do you believe we can step back from the edge, or that it’s too late?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Exhibiting artists include: Marin Abell, Angie Babbit, Rena Detrixhe, Jill Ensley, Neil Goss, Lisa Grossman, Eleanor Heimbaugh, Nancy Hubble, Lora Jost, Dave Loewenstein, Justin Marable, Nancy Marshall, Kaylyn Munro, Molly Murphy, Laura Ramberg, Hirsuta Pilosa, Michelle Rogne, Kent Smith, Damia Smith, Sara Taliaferro, Garret Tufte, David Titterington, Nicholas Ward, Ethan Candyfire, Georgia Kennidee Rikie Boyer, Kyuss Hala, Kayla Kent, Cleta LaBrie, Lori Hasselman, Alyx Stephenson, Geraldine Emily Walsey, Katie Manuelito, and KT Walsh. Three teams of the following artists have created collaborative works: Samuel Balbuena, Matthew Burke, Cameron Pratte, Vi Stenzel, and Cortney Wise; Amanda Monaghan and Pablo Cerca; and Amanda Maciuba, Tim O\u00e2\u20ac\u2122brien and Mary Wharff.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The exhibit and related events are sponsored by two Lawrence community groups, the USDAC-Lawrence Field Office and Lawrence Ecology Teams United in Sustainability (LETUS), in collaboration with Haskell Indian Nations University (HINU) and the Lawrence Percolator. (See USDAC-Lawrence Field Office at http:\/\/on.fb.me\/20riNAM<\/span><\/a><\/span>, the USDAC national office at http:\/\/www.usdac.us<\/span><\/a><\/span>, and LETUS at https:\/\/lawrenceecologyteams.wordpress.com\/about\/.)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Heating Up\u00e2\u20ac\u009d project grew out of a local event in 2014 that brought together these sponsoring groups with leaders from the Haskell Indian Nations University community, on a march and art event against climate change. The success of the 2014 event helped inspire the current collaboration.. (See link for 2014 collaboration http:\/\/usdac.us\/news-long\/2014\/10\/16\/the-peoples-climate-march-makerspeaker-party-lawrence-ks<\/span><\/a><\/span>).<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Heating Up: Artists Respond to Climate Change — to feature art exhibit, month-long series of educational and cultural events The exhibit is posted as a Facebook event: http:\/\/on.fb.me\/1T6XHsn. All project events are posted on the LETUS website: http:\/\/bit.ly\/1ngBiuv LAWRENCE — \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Heating Up: Artists Respond to Climate Change\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[288,18,3],"tags":[448,45,68,454,452,453,450,544,451,455],"class_list":["post-3029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collaboration-2","category-community-art","category-exhibits","tag-448","tag-exhibit","tag-final-friday","tag-hang12","tag-haskell-indian-nations-university","tag-lawrence-percoolator","tag-letus","tag-usdac","tag-usdac-lawrence-field-office","tag-watkins-museum-of-history"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lorajost.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lorajost.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lorajost.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lorajost.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lorajost.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3029"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"https:\/\/www.lorajost.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3065,"href":"https:\/\/www.lorajost.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3029\/revisions\/3065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lorajost.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lorajost.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lorajost.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153How Can We Work Together on Climate Change?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/b> is a panel discussion that is free and open to the public on Sunday April 10, 3-5pm, Parker Hall, Room 110, at Haskell Indian Nations University. The event includes five prestigious panelists, all local, with an exciting combination of experiences and expertise on climate change, arts and culture, community organizing, and practical steps to a sustainable future. Panelists include Saralyn Reece Hardy<\/b>, Director of the Spencer Museum of Art; Thad Holcombe<\/b>, retired Ecumenical Christian Ministries Campus Minister at KU and Moderator for Lawrence Ecology Teams United in Sustainability; Eileen Horn<\/b>, Sustainability Coordinator for Douglas County and the City of Lawrence and formerly with the Climate and Energy Project and Interfaith Power and Light; Jay T. Johnson<\/b>, Associate Professor and Associate Chair of Geography and Atmospheric Science at KU and directs KU\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Center for Indigenous Research, Science, and Technology; Dan Wildcat<\/b>, professor at Haskell Indian Nations University, Director of the Haskell Environmental Research Studies Center, and Convener of the American Indian\/Alaska Native Climate Change Working Group. The panel will be facilitated by Sara Taliaferro<\/b> with music by Alex Williams<\/b> and art by Haskell students. The panel discussion is listed as a Facebook event: http:\/\/on.fb.me\/1L6z6l8<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/a>“Mrs. Noah in Poetry and Dance”<\/b> is a collaborative performance by poet Elizabeth Schultz and dancer Joan Stone, on Friday April 15, 2016, at the Lawrence Percolator, with performances at 7 and 9pm.\u00c2\u00a0 The collaboration includes Stone\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s insightful dance interpretations of Schultz\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s poems that reflect on the relationships among humans and animals, examining how catastrophes disturb these relationships, how the resulting tremors connect us, and how we survive together, learning from one another. Elizabeth Schultz<\/b>, retired from KU\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s English Department, has published a large body of scholarly writings, books of poetry, short stories, essays, and a memoir, and is a dedicated advocate for the arts and the environment. Joan Stone <\/b>taught dance history and choreography at the University of Kansas from 1982 to 2010, and through dance explores nature, dance and politics, women as history makers, and the relationship between gesture and word. The performance is listed as a Facebook event: http:\/\/on.fb.me\/1njVj3i<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/a>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153A Change in the Weather: Writing From Climate Change Art,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/b> is a free all-ages writing workshop on Sunday April 17, 2-4pm at the Lawrence Percolator. Please plan to attend the whole workshop to help create a circle of deep sharing and reflecting. Led by former poet laureate Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg<\/b> and naturalist and writer Ken Lassman<\/b>, participants will consider their own \u00e2\u20ac\u0153internal and external weather\u00e2\u20ac\u009d in relation to climate change by dwelling among the art exhibit as a key writing prompt. The writing workshop is listed as a Facebook: http:\/\/on.fb.me\/1Qr1led<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/a>Hang12<\/b> \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Effecting Change\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/i><\/b>includes art made from repurposed materials by teens, coordinated by the Lawrence Art Center\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s youth curatorial board Hang12. The public is invited to the exhibit\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Final Friday opening on March 25, 5-8pm, Watkins Museum of History, 1047 Massachusetts St. The exhibit runs for a month and is open Tuesday – Friday, 10am-4pm (and on Thursdays in April from 10am – 8pm). \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Climate Change is an issue that impacts all of us. To bring awareness to this subject we asked artists to use repurposed materials within their artwork to take a stand on Climate Change and environmental issues.” Watkins website: http:\/\/bit.ly\/1Rsh4X7<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/a>Eco Ambassadors \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Haskell Wetlands Restoration Day\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/b>invites the public to join this Haskell student-led workday of seeding and planting to help restore the Haskell Wetlands, on Saturday April 16, 2016, 10am-2pm. Bring gloves and gardening\/landscaping tools. Directions: Come straight on Massachusetts St. heading S., continue S. past Indian Health Service. Massachusetts St. turns into\u00c2\u00a0W. Perimeter Rd. so keep going and follow road around campus until you get to the intersection of W. Perimeter Rd. and Barker Ave. Dr. Then turn\u00c2\u00a0right onto Barker Ave. Dr. (you are going south), go straight and you will run right into the\u00c2\u00a0wetlands access\u00c2\u00a0gate. The workday is listed as a Facebook event: http:\/\/bit.ly\/1ZtKmuh<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"