| The See Change exhibition in East Gallery draws on collective community experience about sea level rise. The show is a marker in an ongoing social practice engagement project that recognizes that the arts have a unique ability to bring us together, and that artists can serve as agents of change. Funded by the San Mateo County Office of Sustainability through a Community Resilience Grant, the project is focused on providing the community space for reflection and fear free conversation about sea level rise. San Francisco Bay Area artists Kim Anno and Alicia Escott were awarded the project and have included in their collaboration Heidi Quante and Modesto Covarrubias.
Early in 2020, a series of community engagement projects were planned, only to subsequently be cancelled due to the shelter-in-place order for safety during the pandemic. Smaller groups have been engaged in person and via Zoom to continue a facilitated process named the "Bureau of Linguistical Reality," creating neologisms (new words) to help describe community feelings, concerns, our relationship to the ocean, and our hope that we can come together in a positive way to plan for our shared future. The exhibition includes photographs, paintings, and sculpture by local artists about sea level rise and some of the neologisms (new words) that have been created through the See Change project. The See Change grant artists have installed an interactive space in the center of East Gallery where visitors can participate. Activities include weaving and knitting with repurposed plastic materials, embodying the idea of working to knit the community together, as well as the creation of words.
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A special community engagement event is planned for Sunday, March 7.
Additional information will be shared soon! |
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