Climate Change and The Arts In Our Community

The video “Without Just Grounds”, features Elaine reflecting on her “deep concern for the protection of open space and natural resources” and the series of paintings that she created in response to her concerns. The series of eight stunning, 6-foot-high paintings represent native wildflowers that are precariously rooted in photomontages of severely degraded Cape Ann landscapes. “There they become the speakers for everything in nature that is displaced or denied its natural heritage.”

Following the screening, Starrett’s daughter, Dr. Amy Bower, an oceanographer at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, will be joined in conversation by Cape Ann environmental 3-D artist Sinikka Nogelo and the nationally-known public artist Mags Harries. The discussion will be moderated by Climate Arts Action member Axel Magnuson.