In the G.B. Stuart Gallery:

August 9 - September 14 

Opening Reception August 9, 5:30-7pm

The Gift of Nature

Marti Yeager, Rod Stabler and Ann Ruppert

Nature is a wellspring of inspiration for artists, but it isn’t her only gift. She also provides the materials used to create works of art. Oil painter; Marti Yeager celebrates the natural world by creating sumptuous landscapes in heightened color. Rod Stabler and Ann Ruppert work collaboratively on turned wood vessels, often decorated with organic motifs. 

In the Upper Gallery

Working Backwards

Mia Cinelli

What if we could view a future which has already happened? Just as archaeologists sift through historic refuse for insights on culture and behavior, this exhibition offers a retrospective view of a speculative future told through discarded ephemera. What will our future selves require, use, and discard? What stories might these objects and images tell us about who we are—or who we want to be?

Here, ordinary advertisements, packages, and paperwork showcase one hundred years of cultural shifts and historical events. Thrown-out flyers for climate-proofing homes or packages for personal desalination machines seek to expose our preferable, probable, or problematic trajectories—and the actions required to achieve or avoid them. Engaging with contemporary inquiries and inspired by science fiction’s historical influence on futures of the past, these speculative artworks seek to make visible what we otherwise might deem impossible.