Mother Earth Art Exhibition

Curated by Virginia Shore and Sarah Tanguy

The climate crisis is no longer a distant threat; it is a stark reality that demands our immediate attention. Our planet is undergoing unprecedented changes that include rising global temperatures and sea levels, extreme weather events, and the loss of biodiversity. In a time when the enormity of this crisis can be overwhelming, art provides a means to process and channel our emotions, engendering a sense of ownership and empowerment. The exhibition Mother Earth considers these pressing issues through the vision of women artists. Ranging from drawings, paintings, textiles, works on paper, photographs to sculptures, installations, and video, the featured works harness the power of art to evoke emotions, spark conversations, and inspire meaningful action. By confronting this uncomfortable truth through artistic expression, together we can foster a deeper connection to the environment, a greater sense of urgency to protect our natural world, and a more holistic vision for a sustainable future.

The exhibition and ancillary programming will be open to the public at Culturefix Gallery Nights on June 13, 20, 27 and July 11, 2024.

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About the Speakers

Los Angeles–based artist Andrea Bowers (b. 1965, Wilmington, Ohio) makes art that activates. She combines artistic practice with activism and advocacy, speaking to deeply entrenched inequities as well as the generations of activists working to create a more just world. Bowers has built an international reputation as a chronicler of contemporary history, documenting activism as it unfolds and collecting research on the front lines of protest. Her practice contends with issues such as immigration rights, workers’ rights, climate justice, and women’s rights, illustrating the shared pursuit of justice that connects them.

Solo exhibitions have been presented at the Fondazione Furla and GAM – Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Milan, Italy (2022); Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2022); Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (2021); Abteiberg Museum, Mönchengladbach, Germany (2020); Weserburg Museum, Bremen, Germany (2019); Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA (2019); Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati (2017); Bronx Museum, New York (2016); Espace Culturel Louis Vuitton, Paris (2014); Pomona and Pitzer College Museum of Art, Claremont, (2014); Wiener Secession, Vienna, traveled to The Power Plant, Toronto (2007).

Neha Misra नेहा मिश्रा (she/her) is a contemporary eco-folk artist, immigrant poet, and award-winning climate justice advocate. Neha’s Mother Earth wisdom-centered interdisciplinary studio embodies the transformative power of art to build bridges between private, collective, planetary healing. Neha’s creative practice honors her roots as a first-generation, multi-lingual immigrant woman from New Delhi, India, who calls a solar-powered intentional community on the border of Washington, DC her adopted home. Neha is a 2023-25 Hamiltonian Artists Fellow. She has been honored as a Presidential Leadership Scholar, and as a Regenerative Artivist by the Design Science Studio—a partnership of the Buckminster Fuller Institute and habRitual for leading planet conscious artists. Neha is a 2022 Public Voices Fellows on the Climate Crisis —an initiative of the OpEd Project and the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication, to change who writes history. She currently serves as the inaugural Global Ambassador of nonprofit Remote Energy dedicated to making the solar photovoltaic field more inclusive for BIPOC communities, especially women of color. Previously, Neha served as the Co-Founder and Chief Collaboration Officer of award-winning social enterprise Solar Sister to bring women-led grassroots solar solutions to over four million people across East and West Africa. Neha has also been a Solar Suitcase Ambassador for We Care Solar whose portable solar suitcase innovation for maternal health centers has been recognized by Time Magazine.

Sarah Tanguy is an independent curator and arts writer, who believes in hands-on, face-to-face collaboration with artists and the power of art to connect with the general public and our lived experience. After interning at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Tanguy worked at the National Gallery, the International Exhibitions Foundation, The Tremaine Collection, the International Sculpture Center, the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, The Hechinger Collection, and the Office of Art in Embassies, U.S. Department of State, where she curated temporary exhibitions and permanent collections for US diplomatic facilities overseas. Many of her projects have explored the intersection of art with such topics as science, food, tools, and books. Recent exhibitions include At One with the Elements, Reveal: The Art of Reimagining Scientific Discovery, SUSTAIN, and Traces. She is a contributor to Sculpture magazine, among other publications, and serves on the Board of the Willem de Looper Foundation.