Imago Foundation for the Arts (IFA) is issuing a juried Call for Art to Rhode Island artists called “Rising Seas: Envisioning the Future Ocean State.” The work will be on view at Imago Gallery from April 21 – May 29 with an artist reception scheduled for Saturday, April 23 from 5 to 8 p.m. Deadline for submissions is 11:59 p.m. PST Sunday, March 20. More details, including instructions for submitting art can be found here.
In conjunction with the exhibit, several related events are planned:
A public gathering at the Audubon Touisset Marsh Wildlife Refuge in Warren from 10 am – noon on Saturday, April 30. Leonard Yui, Associate Professor of Architecture on the Sustainability Faculty at Roger Williams University (RWU) and Audubon Senior Director of Conservation Scott Ruhren will lead a walk through an ecological art installation depicting future sea level rise.
A public walk into Jacob’s Point from 10 a.m. to noon on Saturday, May 14 (rain date on Sunday, May 15) led by Jenny Flanagan of the Warren Land Conservation Trust and Deirdre Robinson of the Saltmarsh Sparrow Research Initiative.
A talk at Imago Gallery in Warren at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, May 18 by Elizabeth Rush, author of RISING – Dispatches from the New American Shore (published by Milkweed Press in 2018) and Professor of the Practice, Department of English, Brown University, and Affiliated Fellow at the Institute at Brown for the Environment and Society. The book begins with a chapter called “The Password” about Jacob’s Point in Warren, RI and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in non-fiction.