EASTON, Pa. — Climate change through the eyes of artists is the focus of three upcoming exhibits at the Nurture Nature Center.
The shows will open with a reception that will feature music by the Allan Meyerson Trio from 6 to 9 p.m. Friday, April 14, at the venue at 518 Northampton St.
- The Nurture Nature Center's new "Risky Beauty" exhibit addresses climate change and features work by well-known environmental artists
- It coincides with two other shows featuring local photographers and painters
- A reception for the exhibits will take place from 6 to 9 p.m. on Friday, April 14 at the center
"Risky Beauty: Aesthetics and Climate Change" which runs through June features works by Diane Burko, Maureen Drdak, Stacy Levy, Deirdre Murphy, Amie Potsic, Hiro Sakaguchi and Chantal Westby.
Levy, an environmental artist, creates artwork to demonstrate how nature functions in big cities.
"In my practice, I search for sites that provide the opportunity to make visible some of the forces at work on the site. Interested in watersheds, tides, growth and erosion, I make projects that show how nature functions in an urban setting," she writes on her website.
"My previous projects have been about invisible microorganisms and their complicated relationships of eating and being eaten; spiraling hydrological patterns of a stream, mosaic of growth in a vacant lot, prevailing winds and their effects on vegetation, the flow of rainwater through a building."
The show was curated by environmentalist Cynthia Haveson Veloric, an independent curator and adjunct professor at University of the Arts.
Veloric has worked in the curatorial departments of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
She created the exhibition to "challenge viewers to consider how their aesthetic experience of nature might change in light of the scientific consensus about the validity of the climate crisis, the known societal forces that hasten environmental degradation, and the impact of climate change in their personal environments."
Nature in photos
In addition, the venue will feature a "5x5: Water and Works" exhibit showcasing photography by Richard Begbie, drawings and prints by Pat Delluva, paintings by James A. Depietro, and mosaics by Barbara Kozero, and Jacqueline Meyerson. The 5 x 5 Show closes on June 4.
Also, "Up Down, All Around" will feature panoramic and vertical photographic scrolls by Jamie Cabreza, a teacher at Lafayette College.
The center is open from noon to 4 p.m. Wednesday and Saturday. Visitors may use the parking lot on Pine St. between 5th and 6th streets, but then must walk around the block to enter by the front door.
