CURATORIAL PROGRAMS

We curate juried exhibits & events for artists and writers who are combining the arts with science to showcase and engage viewers in art/sci conservation projects. We also host Curatorial Fellows and Scholars who are exploring new ways to create exhibitions and public programs.

exhibitions

Our “Re-Conservation” exhibition series celebrates the work of artists, writers, and creatives around the globe who are combining art, science, and traditional ecological knowledge to study, celebrate and protect animals and their habitats. Each exhibit—Re-Examining Conservation, Re-Imagining Conservation, and Re-Populating Conservation—asks a different series of questions in an attempt to move us all closer to successful conservation.

RE-IMAGINING CONSERVATION: summer and fall 2023

“Re-Imagining Conservation” strives to create space for multidisciplinary and varied perspectives about conservation by asking artists: WHAT IF we imagine a new future for conservation? It encourages visitors to consider new ways to find a healthy balance in our human-animal relationships, including how we live together in shared environments.

To ask and answer these questions as fully and deeply as possible, our Arts Curator Heather McMordie curated “Re-Imagining Conservation” in two locations (Summer 2023): one in New York City in partnership with the URBAN SOILS INSTITUTE at SWALE HOUSE on Governors Island, subtitled “From the Ground Up”, and one in Jackson, WY at the NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WILDLIFE ART, subtitled “From Many Viewpoints.”

This East-West pairing of exhibitions features artworks from artists around the world and will be accompanied by a variety of public programs, both in-person and virtual, local, national, and international, to extend the reach of the exhibition.

Re-Examining conservation

Re-Examining Conservation invites viewers to examine how, where, and why each of us may seek to establish “a biological balance” in our human-animal relationships. Each painting, poem, print, sculpture, video, and more raised the question: “what is conservation.” Each artist tackled the same challenge: how to visualize the complex relationships between humans and animals.

“Re-Examining Conservation: Questions at the Intersection of Art and Science” premiered at the Granoff Center for the Creative Arts at Brown University from April 4-June 10, 2022.

URBAN WILDLIFE LEARNING TO CO+EXIST

The goal of this exhibit is to encourage the viewing public to take an active role in healthy co-existence with urban wildlife and their habitats.

See below images from our most recent urban wildlife exhibit in Jackson, Wyoming from October 10, 2020-January 10, 2021 at The National Museum of Wildlife Art.

See also the banner above.

WILDLIFE TRADE AND CONSERVATION

The goal of this exhibit is to consider the role of the global wildlife trade in species extinction and to empower the viewing public to take part in conservation.

Past gallery locations: premier at Rhode Island School of Design in 2016, a pop-up version at CITES in Johannesburg, traveling exhibit at Art Providence, National Museum of Wildlife Art (WY), Tiffin University (OH), and Sprout Warren (RI.) To find out more about the top ten animals in trouble from the trade, click here.