Above and Especially Below
Join us for this workshop where you will explore your relationship with water and process its wonder and fragility aloud.
Water envelopes us. Vapor rises into the rain that grows our food, rain drops into the rivers that nourish our bodies, rivers flow into the oceans that connect us, oceans freeze into the sea ice that balances the Earth. The relationship between freshwater and saltwater is ever present. Yet it too often goes unnoticed. Science helps us organize the water cycle and stories help us understand it. But how do we come to appreciate something we seldom see?
In this space of curiosity, Jann Rosen-Queralt, artist, and Angelica Chavez Duckworth, activist, will lead participatory activities that aspire to express the value of water, both seen and unseen. In combining science, storytelling, reflection, and relationship, it is our hope that everyone walks away feeling anchored to their connection to water, above and especially below.
*We highly recommend visiting the One Chiliad exhibit at The Peale before the event. Families and friends of all ages are encouraged.
Sunday September 21st, 2:00 – 3:30 Closing Event, One Chiliad, The Peale Museum
GET TO KNOW:
Angelica (Jellie) Chavez Duckworth is an activist and artist dedicated to addressing social and ecological imbalances, including renter protections, freshwater conservation, and energy justice. Her experience as an environmental social scientist has led her to Baltimore to study the surface water-groundwater relationship while pursuing a Masters in Geography and Environmental Engineering at Johns Hopkins University.
Jann Rosen-Queralt an interdisciplinary artist whose artworks address the poetic nature of water, exploring social and ecological relationships. Her labors are that of a visionary and an aesthetician, balancing between collaborator and provocateur. She dedicates herself full time to her art practice after many decades at the Maryland Institute College of Art, her last four years as Interim Director of the Rinehart Graduate School of Sculpture.