Five US-based coastal artists who found each other across screens and shorelines bonded by similar questions: are we listening to what the earth is saying? are we aware of the abundance in our environment? -and came all the way to Alaska to meet in real life for the first time.
The Climate Arts Collective was born as an experiment within Netvvrk, a mid-career artists’ international networking platform, and what began online arrived initially here, face to face, in Homer — a small town at the edge of the Kenai Peninsula with art running through its bones, its waters, its icy terrains, and high-contrast cold landscapes.
A place that may look freezing cold at first glance, even though the community we are meeting here is warm and inviting: a reminder that the most alive things often live inside the harshest exteriors.
Homer is home to one of our own, the artist, Sharlene Cline, who took the host and gathering role and made this live encounter real.
Fifteen days to meet, create, and exhibit — five voices, three works: a photo-based collage tracing the US coastal lines where we each come from and a painting born from six hands meeting in a single upcycled drop, both exhibited at Kenai Peninsula College, while a ceramic earth work installation shaped by one exhibited at the Pratt Museum.
The Climate Artist Collective members consists of Caroline Anderson (Rhode Island), Rebecca Carlton (Wisconsin), Sharleen Cline(Alaska), Rose Gleiser (New York), Elaine Miller (Illlinois).
“The Climate Artists Collective is supported, in part, by a grant from the Alaska State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.”
“The University of Alaska is an equal opportunity/equal access employer and educational institution. The University is committed to a policy of non-discrimination against individuals on the basis of any legally protected status.”
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