In The Flow: Art, Ecology, and Pedagogy

Mon. October 23, 2023 - Sat. December 9, 2023


Off-Campus Location: Kittredge Gallery

Open Monday through Friday 10:00am - 7:00pm, Saturday 12:00pm - 5:00pm (closed during university holidays)
Admission: see venue for details

Disability Accommodations

Equal Opportunity Institution. 24+ hours advance notice is appreciated for accommodations.

In the Flow: Art, Ecology, and Pedagogy embodies and demonstrates place-based and land-based ways of knowing through art, artifacts, and interactive projects by artists, educators, and students from the Cascadia region. It serves as the nexus for the Flow: Art and Ecology in a Changing Climate symposium.

Full details on the exhibition website

Flow: Art and Ecology Symposium

densely spaced green and brown wiggly lines showing waterflow on an island
Workshops Panels Poetry Art

November 3 - 4

The Flow Art & Ecology Symposium on November 3rd & 4th and the concurrent gallery exhibit, In the Flow, brings together community partners, educators, and students from the Salish Sea and the Columbia Basin to share material and place-based knowledge practices and understandings of how to listen and learn from local ecologies.

The symposium is free but interested participants will need to register.

Gallery Statement

In the Flow features the work of nine artists and collaborative teams working in the Salish Sea Watershed and Columbia River Basin. The artworks explore how land and place can help us contend with histories and build new kinds of relationships in the face of accelerated climate change.

The word pedagogy, seems like an old-fashioned and academic way to refer to teaching, but its greek roots (paidos’ (child) and ‘agogos’ (leader) are useful in helping us honor the childhood wonder and immediacy of the sensory world that can sit at the heart of teaching and learning. The artists of this exhibit all practice forms of pedagogy that connect us to the wonder of our immediate environment and multi-sensory engagement with land and place. They approach pedagogy as a form of reparation, remediation and healing that can refigure old relationships in new ways. 

It matters who and what we listen to and in this moment, place and land are critical teachers. Pedagogy is not bound to institutions, it occurs in our communities, the natural world, through oral traditions and through other species. The artists in this show find teachers and collaborators among rocks, glaciers, earth, fungi, oceans, Nch’i-wana/Wimal/Columbia River, plants, other humans and pre-colonial languages of place.


This exhibition serves as a touchstone for the two day symposium: Flow: Art and Ecology in a Changing Climate. Many of the symposium’s workshops are directly tied to the artworks on exhibit. They offer physical engagements with matter and materials like pigments and inks, mycelium, plastic waste, and rocks. This exhibit and the symposium model and provide direct, interactive opportunities to integrate and embody place/land based knowledge through art and ecology.

Artists

Flow: Art and Ecology in the Time of Global Warming co-organizers

  • Melonie Ancheta, Director Pigments Revealed International, researcher, artist, educator
  • Natalie Baloy, Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology, Western Washington University
  • Cynthia Camlin, Professor, Art and Art History, Western Washington, University
  • Heidi Gustafson, artist and ochre specialist
  • Beverly Naidus, Emerita Professor of Interdisciplinary Studio Arts, University of Washington, Tacoma
  • Daniela Naomi Molnar, independent artist and poet
  • Matt Reynolds, Associate Professor of Art History, Whitman College
  • Elise Richman, Professor Art and Art History, University of Puget Sound
  • Cara Tomlinson, Professor Art, Lewis and Clark College

 

Additional Participants

  • Rachel DeMotts, Professor, Environmental Policy and Decision Making, University of Puget Sound
  • Dann Disciglio, Visiting Professor of Digital Media, Lewis and Clark College
  • Amanda Leigh Evans, Visiting Assistant Professor, Art, Whitman College
  • Cleo Wölfle Hazard, Assistant Professor School of Marine and Environmental Affairs, University of Washington
  • Yixuan Pan, Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Studio Arts, University of Washington, Tacoma
  • Sasha Petrenko, Assistant Professor of Sculpture and Expanded Media, Western Washington University
  • Renee Simms, Associate Professor & Leadership Team Member, African American Studies, and the Race and Pedagogy Institute, University of Puget Sound
  • Robert Yerachmiel Sniderman, Assistant Professor in Socially Engaged Art, Fairhaven College of Interdisciplinary Studies, Western Washington University + Visiting Professor, Institut für Kunst im Kontext, Universität der Künste Berlin (2023-24)
  • Banu Subramanium, Professor & Chair, Women’s and Gender Studies, Wellesley College
  • Arianne True, Washington State Poet Laureate (Choctaw, Chickasaw)

Lewis and Clark Art and Ecology course students

  • Sophie Abbassian
  • Miriam Baena
  • Summer Dae Binder
  • Owen Clark
  • Allison Clarke
  • Mallory Dubois
  • Margo Gaillard
  • Liv Ladaire
  • Gillian Largay
  • Paloma Richeson
  • Gabriel Rosenfield
  • Stella Scheffer
  • Anthi Sklavenitis
  • Ezequiel Walker
  • Lila Ward
  • Aiden Wilkson

Western Washington Art and Ecology Students

  • Ashley Anshus
  • Hillary Banks
  • Kayla Bunton
  • Sophia Dart
  • Novaya Estrella
  • Carly Gadzuk
  • Grace Gamblin
  • Kat Gibson
  • Hadley Hudson
  • JoLynn Karnas West
  • Ryan Lien
  • Eden Light-Czingula
  • Kaylee Lyons
  • Brandon Manikhoth
  • Ilah Mittelstaedt
  • Maya Olson-Wickstrom
  • Isabelle Simons
  • Galen Soleimanipour