Artists Respond to Global Warming, Reach Across Generations

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Artists Respond to Global Warming, Reach Across Generations

Can sixteen high school students, working with a handful

of established artists, change the world?

OREGON, PORTLAND, Sep. 25 -/E-Wire/-- Can sixteen high school students, working with a handful of established artists, change the world? That was the agenda of week-long workshop that teamed young artists with prominent figures from the Northwest art scene, including Native American sculptor Lillian Pitt, and public space artist Buster Simpson.

The teams had spent several weekends earlier in the summer studying how global warming threatened to fundamentally reshape the Pacific Northwest: dramatic losses in snowpack from warming are likely to lead to large scale summer water shortages for this normally water-rich region.

Pitt's team response was to build a dome-like sculpture from willows, and people it with the creatures historically dependent on summer stream flows. Simpson's group traveled across the landscape-from coastline to snowline-- creating public sculpture out of white dress shirts, colored paint, trees, stones, water and life-jackets.

Other students worked with reknowned photojournalist Gary Braasch, poet Michelle Glazer, and videographer Brian Lindstrom.

"It is an inspiring show", said project organizer Emily Thomas. "We are starting to see how dramatically global warming will change our world. These kids are opening people's eyes to the impacts".

The work goes on display Thursday, October 3rd, 2002 at the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA), 219 NW 12th Ave. The exhibit is free and open to the public and will run from October 3-19, 2002. Call PICA at [REDACTED-PHONE] for more information.

NW Artists Respond is a program of Portland's Green House Network, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization committed to public education about clean energy solutions to stop global warming.

Chris James - [REDACTED-EMAIL]

Lorien Sekora - [REDACTED-EMAIL]

http://www.greenhousenet.org/

http://www.racetostopglobalwarming.org

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