Artists
Dec
3
Jan 29
Water Bar & Public Studio, Artists

Exhibition: Regan Golden, Thaw

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Image: Prairie Constructs, Regan Golden

Image: Prairie Constructs, Regan Golden

In conjunction with our Water Bar Winter Social, artist Regan Golden will be exhibiting Thaw, a selection of images that evoke our winter season from her series Prairie Constructs. 

"Thaw documents the end of one of the warmest winters on record in Minnesota. As the snow and ice melted, it revealed rotting leaves, bits of moss, and discarded plastics in the thin strip of woods that buffers my house from the massive rail yard and the busy transit way that connects the two campuses of the University of Minnesota. This swatch of urban nature, now called Kasota Ponds, was once a vast wetland that lay at the heart of the two cities. My work explores how landscapes are made and unmade through the mixing of photography, drawing, painting and found materials. I am fascinated by how pictures of landscapes are crafted and I am haunted by the possibility that we might someday have to fabricate winter. The images in Thaw consist mostly of surfaces, or materials that don't quite meet the definition of objects -- muck, melt, and twisted light." - Regan Golden-McNerney

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Regan Golden-McNerney depicts ecological change in the American landscape using altered photographs and drawing materials. Golden's images have been exhibited in solo and group shows both nationally and internationally, including Harvard University's Fisher Forestry Museum, The Cue Gallery in New York City and the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago. She has received grants and fellowships from the Jerome Foundation, the Core Program and the National Science Foundation. Golden is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Art and an Artist-in-Residence at the College of Biological Sciences Conservatory at the University of Minnesota.

This is an ongoing project, but a portion of this work was included in the 2015 Jerome Emerging Artist Fellowship Exhibition at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design.

Visit her website.

Nov
19
7:00 pm19:00
Water Bar & Public Studio, Artists

Water Support Group

Join Plotform (artists Jane D. Marsching + Andi Sutton) in a storytelling event that paints a portrait of the challenges facing Minnesota waters with a focus on empathy, activism, and change. Invited guests will share personal stories of water crisis, failure, challenge, solution, and connection from across the state and from a myriad of perspectives and communities. The event, a cross between an AA meeting and a Moth Story Hour, will amplify the work of water activists and advocates as well as individuals reflecting on current challenges to promote a vibrant understanding of the interconnected issues of water, ecology, place, community, policy, and behavior. Culminating in a facilitated group dialogue, it will be accompanied by a sing-a-long of water quality data from a select Twin Cities waterway as well as video projections of local waters and watery beings who inhabit them. Water Dance Party, 9 PM Stay after Water Support Group to smooth (or sharpen) the edges and effects of the evening’s stories by dancing to selections from Plotform’s growing song archive, Songs for Water. From Tina Turner to 50 Cent, Sam Cook to Joan Jett, the Highwaymen to the Pixies, the playlist uses popular music to narrate our human relationship with water: floods, metaphors, pollution, pop, and more. What better way to be together in the mourning, reflection, rage, and celebration the evening’s stories inspire? This event is part of a larger Plotform event, Water Quality Chorus, in R&D now for a performance June 10, 2017, in Minneapolis at the amazing NorthernSpark festival. Project partners include: Clean Water Action/Clean Water Fund of Minnesota Mississippi Park Connection Prairie Fire Lady Choir Northern Lights.MN Minnesota Pollution Control Agency


Join Plotform (artists Jane D. Marsching + Andi Sutton) in a storytelling event that paints a portrait of the challenges facing Minnesota waters with a focus on empathy, activism, and change.

Invited guests will share personal stories of water crisis, failure, challenge, solution, and connection from across the state and from a myriad of perspectives and communities. The event, a cross between an AA meeting and a Moth Story Hour, will amplify the work of water activists and advocates as well as individuals reflecting on current challenges to promote a vibrant understanding of the interconnected issues of water, ecology, place, community, policy, and behavior. Culminating in a facilitated group dialogue, it will be accompanied by a sing-a-long of water quality data from a select Twin Cities waterway as well as video projections of local waters and watery beings who inhabit them. 

Water Dance Party, 9 PM
Stay after Water Support Group to smooth (or sharpen) the edges and effects of the evening’s stories by dancing to selections from Plotform’s growing song archive, Songs for Water. From Tina Turner to 50 Cent, Sam Cook to Joan Jett, the Highwaymen to the Pixies, the playlist uses popular music to narrate our human relationship with water: floods, metaphors, pollution, pop, and more. What better way to be together in the mourning, reflection, rage, and celebration the evening’s stories inspire?

This event is part of a larger Plotform event, Water Quality Chorus, in R&D now for a performance June 10, 2017, in Minneapolis at the amazing NorthernSpark festival.

Project partners include:
Clean Water Action/Clean Water Fund of Minnesota
Mississippi Park Connection
Prairie Fire Lady Choir
Northern Lights.MN
Minnesota Pollution Control Agency