Curator Tours at AU

Register Now for Curator Tours of Two Exhibitions at American University’s Katzen Arts Center

WPC board member and exhibition curator Laura Roulet will lead a tour of The Human Flood, a site-specific collaborative installation conceived and created by artists Ellyn Weiss and Sondra N. Arkin. The exhibition focuses on the mass migration of human populations caused by climate change. Years of extreme heat, rising sea levels, wildfires, drought, and water shortages make the environments in which millions of people have lived no longer able to sustain human life. The installation evokes the more visible markers of this movement – extreme weather, nomadic refugee scenarios – and also the human and societal impacts of uprooting.

Led by curator Vivienne Lassman, program participants will also tour the exhibition The Tree Around the Corner featuring the work of artist and educator Barbara Kerne. Barbara has been making art inspired by nature since childhood, as is evident in her myriad interpretations of trees throughout the decades. Her paintings display a varied and intriguing perception of trees ranging from the magical to the humorous to the intensely poetic. Her fascination with forests also led her to create a series of trees in the woodcut print medium, which are on view in the exhibition.

All three artists, Ellyn Weiss, Sondra Arkin, and Barbara Kerne, will be present during the WPC tours of the exhibitions.