Exhibit Reception - In The Flow: Art Ecology and Pedagogy

The Flow Art & Ecology Symposium on November 3 & 4 and the concurrent gallery exhibit, In the Flow, brings together community partners, educators, and students from the Salish Sea and the Columbia Basin to share material and place-based knowledge practices and understandings of how to listen and learn from local ecologies.

The symposium is free but interested participants will need to register here.

• Reception for In the Flow Exhibit 4-5 p.m.
• Poetry Reading 5-5:30 p.m.
  • Daniela Naomi Molnar, independent artist and poet
• Panel Discussion: Decolonizing Land’s Imaginary 5:30-7 p.m.
  • Donna Haraway discusses the need for “a thousand names…to erupt out of the Anthropocene into another, big enough story.” Telling “big-enough” stories in this time of global warming and globalization requires critical and creative links between language and land. Decolonizing Land’s Imaginary explores how naming, classifying, and representing the world animates reciprocal human and non-human relationship, contends with notions of indigeneity, and examines both a sense of place and displacement. Facilitator: Elise Richman, Professor, Art and Art History, Painting, University of Puget Sound; Participants: Cynthia Camlin, Professor, Art and Art History, Western Washington University; Rachel DeMotts, Professor, Environmental Policy and Decision Making, University of Puget Sound; Renee Simms, Associate Professor & Leadership Team Member, African American Studies, and the Race and Pedagogy Institute, University of Puget Sound; Banu Subramanium, Professor & Chair, Women’s and Gender Studies, Wellesley College