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DESCRIPTION:Since the 1970s, Helen and Newton Harrison have been creating art inspired 
 by the earth and the environmental impacts of human development. They 
 established a worldwide network among biologists, ecologists, architects, 
 urban planners, politicians, and other artists to initiate collaborative 
 dialogues about ideas and solutions which support biodiversity and 
 community development. \n\nThe definitive survey of the Harrisons' 45 year 
 art career, The Time of the Force Majeure: After 45 Years Counterforce is 
 on the Horizon​, was released by Prestel Publishing in 2016. The book 
 offers an overview of almost five decades of works by these pioneers of the 
 eco-art movement, including recent projects which show their unwavering 
 commitment to educating people about global warming and designing large 
 scale responses to the phenomena of climate change.\n\nJoin us March 9, 7-9 
 pm, to celebrate Helen and Newton Harrison, their influential practice, and 
 the publication of this important and weighty book. Anne Spirn and William 
 Fox, two of the essayists from The Time of the Force Majeure, will speak, 
 followed by remarks from the Harrisons.\n\n6:30 p.m. Wine and cheese 
 reception\n7 p.m. Program\n\nThis event is FREE and open to the public. 
 Metered parking is available in the Performing Arts 
 lot.\n\nPresentations:\n\nAnne Spirn, "Helen and Newton Harrison: The Art 
 of Inquiry, Manifestation, and Enactment"\n\nWilliam Fox, "Winding up the 
 Planet"\n\nAnne Whiston Spirn, professor of landscape architecture and 
 planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is an award-winning 
 author and distinguished landscape architect, photographer, teacher, and 
 scholar. Her workis devoted to promoting life-sustaining communities: 
 places that are functional, sustainable, meaningful, and artful, places 
 that help people feel and understand the relationship of the natural and 
 built worlds. Her books include The Granite Garden: Urban Nature and Human 
 Design (1984), The Language of Landscape (1998), Daring to Look: Dorothea 
 Lang's Photographs and Reports from the Field (2008) and The Eye is a Door: 
 Photography and the Art of Visual Thinking (2014). She has received 
 numerous fellowships and awards, including the Guggenheim Fellowship and 
 the President’s Award of Excellence from the American Society of 
 Landscape Architects. In 2001, she received the International Cosmos Prize 
 for “contributions to the harmonious coexistence of nature and 
 mankind.”\n\nWilliam L. Fox, Director of the Center for Art + Environment 
 at the Nevada Museum of Art in Reno, Nevada, has variously been called an 
 art critic, science writer, and cultural geographer.  He has published 
 fifteen books on cognition and landscape, numerous essays in art 
 monographs, magazines and journals, and fifteen collections of poetry. Fox 
 has researched and written books set in the Antarctic, the Arctic, the 
 Himalaya, and the deserts of Chile, Australia, and the United States. He is 
 a fellow of both the Royal Geographical Society and Explorers Club, and 
 recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, National Endowment 
 for the Humanities, and National Science Foundation. He has been a visiting 
 scholar at the Getty Research Institute, the Clark Art Institute, the 
 Australian National University, the National Museum of Australia, and the 
 Oslo School of Architecture and Design.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2017/03/04/18797034.php
SUMMARY:Celebrating Helen and Newton Harrison - 45 Years of Ecological Art
LOCATION:Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) 108, UC Santa Cruz
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2017/03/04/18797034.php
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