Groundings: Care and Climate Justice
Emily Johnson, Cannupa Hanska Luger, Courtney Desiree Morris, and Sarah Rosalena
March 26-May 12
March 26 Artist Roundtable and Opening, 6pm
Sarah Lawrence College’s Gallery at Heimbold Visual Arts Center is pleased to announce the exhibition opening of Groundings: Care and Climate Justice with artists Emily Johnson (of the Yup’ik Nation), Cannupa Hanska Luger (of the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nation, and the Lakota Nation), Courtney Desiree Morris, and Sarah Rosalena.
Groundings insists on care as a slow, attentive, relational foundation for climate action, climate adaptation, and energy transition. Against the urgency and presentism that tends to dominate climate discourse, Groundings is rooted in the radical care traditions of those who have long endured environmental crisis on this continent, now centuries deep into settler colonialism and racial capitalism. The artists in the exhibition invoke care as a form of grief and remembrance, slowness, attention and refusal, expansive imagination and speculative worldmaking. In works that are communal and collaborative, they model forms of interconnectedness, pleasure, and kinship. In response to violent pasts and presents, they imagine and prefigure diverse visions of Indigenous, Black, and Brown futurity. Across media and from a particular place and experience, these artists explore possibility and becoming, which loosens the grip that despair and anxiety have on us as dominant moods of the Anthropocene. Care is more than collective survival, more than resistance; it is the necessary relational infrastructure for collective flourishing.
This group show is the final exhibition in the Mellon-funded Care and Climate Justice series. More information can be found at careandclimatejustice.org
Image: Courtney Desiree Morris, My Heart Belongs to Daddy Solastalgia series, 2019, photograph printed on canvas.
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The mission of The Gallery at Heimbold Visual Arts Center is to cultivate appreciation and understanding of the arts and to foster creativity and intellectual growth in ways that reflect the interdisciplinary nature of the Visual and Studio Arts program. Through rotating exhibitions, artist lectures, hands-on workshops, and regular publications, The Gallery at Heimbold Visual Arts Center seeks to bridge the classroom with the art world. Our programming supports a diverse range of artists in terms of gender, race, perspectives, methodologies, and disciplines, whose works inform and challenge our students and the community. Primarily a teaching gallery, we involve students in all aspects of our exhibition programming—installation, curation, artist lecture selection and preparation, and collaborative publication efforts—simultaneously supporting our students, the teaching artists within the college, and the vibrant community surrounding us.
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Current Exhibit
Groundings: Care and Climate Justice
Sarah Lawrence College’s Gallery at Heimbold Visual Arts Center is pleased to announce exhibition opening of Groundings: Care and Climate Justice with artists Emily Johnson (of the Yup’ik Nation), Cannupa Hanska Luger (of the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nation, and the Lakota Nation), Courtney Desiree Morris, and Sarah Rosalena (Wixárika).
On view: March 26 - May 12, 2024
Artist Roundtable Event: March 26 at 6 pm Donnelly Film Theatre, Heimbold Visual Arts Center
Workspace Residency Program
Artist in Residence: Gabriela Salazar
The Gallery at Heimbold Visual Art Center is pleased to announce its inaugural Workspace Residency Program with artist Gabriela Salazar. Located in the Heimbold Visual Arts Center at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, NY, the residency will take place from November 6th to January 23rd, followed by a solo exhibition made possible by a grant from the Mellon Foundation.
This new program dynamically bridges the classroom and art world by reframing the gallery space as a temporary extension of the artist’s studio. Participating artists are provided with time, funding, student assistance and access to fabrication facilities. In this exchange, the college supports the artist, enabling them to explore new ideas, materials, and processes. Simultaneously, the institution benefits from the artist's creative contributions within an academic setting. During the course of their residency the artist will provide open hours and participate in Visual and Studio Arts programming.
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The gallery will be open on Monday (2/26) for those who have not gotten a chance to see Gabriela Salazar “Observed”
Don’t forget to stop by on Tuesday (2/27) for the Closing Event from 12:00-3:00 PM
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Gabriela Salazar “Observed” Closing Event February 27 12-3pm
In her recent “Leaves” series, Salazar cast natural and inorganic objects in water-soluble paper to create a metaphor of fragility, care, and temporality. On February 27, 2024, in a collaborative process, Salazar will break apart the large-scale, site-specific artwork, “Leaves (One 365 (November, December)),” and distribute the pieces to the exhibition’s final visitors. Through this exchange, Salazar seeks to transmit an understanding of responsibility, community, and care.
All are invited to participate in the breaking apart and giving away of “Leaves (One 365 (November, December))”.
Observed is one of three exhibitions that will take place at Sarah Lawrence College in winter and spring 2024; each exhibition is focused on the theme of Care and Climate Justice, and is co-curated by Sarah Hamill and Izzy Lockhart. The exhibitions are funded by a grant from the Mellon Foundation, which supports the Sarah Lawrence Interdisciplinary Collaborative on the Environment (SLICE), a collaboration to teach climate justice across the humanities at Sarah Lawrence and Bronx Community College.
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Reception for Gabriela Salazar’s “Observed” that was held on January 30th in the Gallery at Heimbold Visual Arts Center (photographs by Conner Crosby)
“Observed,” which serves as a response to the overwhelming scale of the global climate crisis, is on display until February 25th, 2024
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Gabriela Salazar, "Observed"
January 24 - February 25, 2024
Salazar's work focuses on the beauty, fragility, and the temporality of the present. Her work reminds us of the intergenerational transference of knowledge of our built environment, and the ways in which we access our relationship to its construction and endurance.
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Sarah Lawrence College’s Gallery at Heimbold Visual Arts Center is pleased to announce that Gabriela Salazar’s solo exhibition Observed will be on display from January 24 to February 25, 2024. Salazar was the inaugural artist in the Gallery’s Workspace Residency Program in fall 2023, and her exhibition is made possible by a grant from the Mellon Foundation.
Gabriela Salazar, Observed
January 24 - February 25, 2024
Opening Reception January 30, 5-7pm
Closing Event February 27, 12-3pm
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Artist in Residence - Gabriela Salazar
December 9 and 10, 12-5pm
THE GALLERY WORKSPACE RESIDENCY
This new program dynamically bridges the classroom and art world by reframing the gallery space as a temporary extension of the artist’s studio. Participating artists are provided with time, funding, student assistance and access to fabrication facilities. In this exchange, the college supports the artist, enabling them to explore new ideas, materials, and processes. Simultaneously, the institution benefits from the artist's creative contributions within an academic setting. During the course of their residency the artist will provide open hours and participate in Visual and Studio Arts programming.
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Image: Photo by Gabriela Salazar.
The Gallery at Heimbold Visual Art Center is pleased to announce its inaugural Workspace Residency Program with artist Gabriela Salazar. Located in the Heimbold Visual Arts Center at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, NY, the residency will take place from November 6th to January 23rd, followed by a solo exhibition made possible by a grant from the Mellon Foundation.
Gabriela’s expertise will be accessible to students and visitors much more substantially than in traditional gallery exhibitions. Salazar will be working on-site each week, opening her studio practice to visitors, allowing us to witness her artwork’s development up close and in real time. Classes from across the college will have the opportunity to schedule appointments (as well as walk-ins on Fridays) to engage with Salazar and visit the evolving space. Salazar will also participate in VASA’s critique week and conduct an in-depth workshop in February 2024.
Appointments available, Tuesdays starting November 13th
Open hours, Friday 1-3pm
Weekend hours: December 9-10 12-5pm
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Elizabeth Bonaventura—If we change the way we look at things, do the things we look at change?
Boxing, 2015
Casein on panel
48 × 60 inches
Totem, 2013
Casein on panel
40 × 48 inches
September 7 - October 22
Tomorrow is the last day! Come to visit at the last chance!
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Elizabeth Bonaventura - If we changed the way we look at things, do the things we look at change?
Postcards
Untitled, circa 1997-2003
Casein and collage on postcards
Loaned by artist and PoA
On view through October 22
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