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October 27, 2018 – March 23, 2019

Geologists have been thinking about how the Holocene, the geological period that began after the end of the last ice age around 12,000 years ago, has been replaced by the Anthropocene. This potential new epoch is named for humans and is defined as one in which our impact on the world has been so acute that it is in the geologic evidence. A debate continues about this idea, and about the precise beginning date of a new era. Several dates and causes are often discussed as the beginning of the Anthropocene: 1610, the huge migrations of Europeans to the Americas, the germs they brought and death of 50,000,000 indigenous people and the change on the plant-life, carbon and atmosphere from this that is in geologic evidence in Antarctic cores; 1950, the peak of soot from high-temperature coal combustion worldwide due to the accelerating industrial revolution; and 1945 or 1964, years that are discernable by high levels of radioactive isotopes in rock layers due to fallout from nuclear testing. Regardless of whether one is ultimately chosen as the beginning of the Anthropocene, each provides rock solid evidence that humans have had environment-changing impact on the natural world. And we could also consider them collectively, because, after all, a few decades or centuries are negligible in The Geological Time Scale.

Anthropocenic: Art About the Natural World in the Human Era is a topical and compelling group exhibition by artists who make art about nature, the natural world, and our effect on and interrelation with it in the 21 century. The artists explore the relationship of humans to the world with widely varied conceptual strategies, artistic practices, and media. Some address the human impact on the natural world directly, while for others the relationship to the Anthropocene is more oblique. The exhibiting artists work in mos

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Achimba, Bhion (2022-2023)

Ademoroti, Adeniyi (2023-2024)

Adeola, Gbolahan (2019-2020)

Aguilar, Leslie Marie (2015-2016)

Akella, Shastri (2021-2022)

Albarelli, Dean (1993-1994, 1989-1990)

Alexander, Pamela (1976-1977, 1975-1976)

Alsadir, Nuar (1995-1996)

Althaus, Keith (1970-1971, 1969-1970)

Amadon, Samuel (2006-2007)

Ammirati, Domenick (2013-2014)

Anders, Molly (2021-2022, 2023-2024)

Andersen, Kirsten (2010-2011, 2002-2003)

Arnold, Elizabeth (1997-1998)

Artman, Deborah (1991-1992)

Avant, A.H. Jerriod (2015-2016, 2016-2017)

Banias, Ari (2013-2014, 2011-2012)

Barresi, Dorothy (1987-1988)

Bartel, Nathan (2005-2006)

Battin, Wendy (1977-1978, 1976-1977)

Bauer, Steven (1978-1979)

Beete, Paulette (1999-2000)

Behrens, Peter (1984-1985)

Bellas, Katie (2012-2013)

Beresford, Hannah (2017-2018)

Bernhardt, Deborah (2008-2009, 2000-2001)

Biddle, Wayne (1975-1976)

Black, Malachi (2010-2011)

Black, Sophie Cabot (1988-1989)

Booker, Brian (2009-2010)

Boone, Leslie (1980-1981)

Bowles, Brendan (2017-2018)

Briccetti, Lee (1997-1998)

Brock-Broido, Lucie (1982-1983)

Brooks, Ben (1976-1977, 1975-1976)

Brown, James (1977-1978)

Budnitz, Judy (1995-1996)

Burkard, Michael (1979-1980, 1978-1979)

Bush, Catherine (1987-1988)

Byock, Lila (2004-2005)

Carter, Danella (1991-1992)

Carter, Michelle (1983-1984)

Carty, Bill (2013-2014)

Cassara, Joseph (2016-2017)

Cassells, Cyrus (1982-1983)

Cassens, Denise (1978-1979, 1977-1978)

Cervantes, Lorna Dee (1979-1980)

Chao, Grace (2023-2024)

Chatti, Leila (2016-2017)

Choi, Susan (1997-1998)

Clark, Acie (2024-2025)

Clark, Tia (2015-2016)

Clatterbuck, Carl (1982-1983)

Clevidence, Carin (1997-1998)

Clover, Joshua (1992-1993)

Cohen, Judith Beth (1977-1978, 1975-1976)

Collier, Michael (1979-1980)

Collins, Callie (2019-2020)

Conley, Charles (2011-2012, 2008-2009)

Connolly, Ed (1972-1973)

Conradi, Kai (2024-2025)

Cook, Molly Malone (1972-1973, 1971-1972)

Cooperman, Mat

Fellows Notes is a monthly listing of the latest news from awardees in our Artist Fellowships Program.

Due to COVID-19 restrictions and cancellations, you should always double-check any event details with the listed venues.

John Gianvito (Film & Video Fellow ’15), Jessica Hankey (Film & Video Fellow ’19), and Adam Mazo (Film & Video Fellow ’21) are among the New England filmmakers who received awards through the Summer 2021 Moving Image Fund from the LEF Foundation.

Nathalie Miebach (Sculpture/Installation/New Genres Fellow ’17, ’09) and Laura Petrovich-Cheney (Crafts Fellow ’21) are among the artists exhibiting in CraftsBoston: Fiber Stories, an online exhibition hosted by the Society of Arts+Crafts (thru 8/29). There will be a shop tour online event 8/4, 12 PM ET.

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Roya Amigh (Drawing & Printmaking Fellow ’20) has a solo exhibition, Absolutism and Sexuality, at Boston Sculptors Gallery (thru 8/15).

Pelle Cass (Photography Finalist ’15) is among the artists featured in the article 8 Contemporary Artists Taking Fresh Approaches to Sports on Artsy.

Madge Evers (Photography Finalist ’21) has a solo exhibition, The New Herbarium, at ArtsWorcester (8/19-9/19, reception 9/2, 6-9 PM ET). She also has work in the group exhibition Whistling in the Dark, at Kingston Gallery (thru 8/29).

Tsar Fedorsky‘s (Photography Fellow ’15) work is featured in the online arts journal Nowhere Diary.

Congratulations to Magdalena Gómez (Dramatic Writing Fellow ’01), who was awarded a Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellowship. The awards support US Poets Laureate (Magdalena is the Poet Laureate of Springfield) with $50,000 grants.

Sara Hendren (Fiction/Creative Nonfiction Fellow ’18) published the essay A Free Tool to Improve Cities in the New York Times Opinion Section.

Marky Kauffmann‘s (Photography Fell

Data can be analyzed from anything, not just from most commonly used words.  Artist Nathalie Miebach uses weather data to create sculptures that can also be translated into musical scores.  Mieback created a visual and musical representation of Hurricane Noel called Hurricane Noel in 2015.  This piece looks a like a bright child’s toy as it is a warped and twisted basket that has various colorful pieces of plastic attached to it.  However, each visual element on this sculpture represents a piece of data from Hurricane Noel.  This piece can also be read as a score from the barometric, wind, and temperature readings.  Mieback’s piece highlights the many ways that data can be interpreted and visualized.  Unlike DuBois, her work is not just viewed on a flat piece of paper.  She provides new ways that data can be represented as both a sculpture and a song.  Various representations of data sets can reveal hidden meanings about the data.  Yet like Dubois, her sculptures are not just visually pleasing her work has meaning that is dependent on data.  Also similar to Dubois, Mieback collects her own data and uses data that she finds online. 

In an increasingly information-dependent world artists are finding meaning in data visualization.  Data visualization can be presented in many different ways but provide a new context to present complex data.  Both Miebach and DuBois use data in different ways but their works provide new information about the data they started with.  Data visualization can often reveal hidden patterns which suggest that data is a great new medium for artists. 

Links:

https://www.ted.com/talks/r_luke_dubois_insightful_human_portraits_made_from_data

http://lukedubois.com/

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/12/arts/design/r-luke-dubois-mines-data-to-reveal-art.html

http://thegovlab.org/luke-dubois-portraits-in-data/

https://www.ted.com/talks/nathalie_miebach

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