The ARTx3 Campus is undertaking an interview project to capture an oral history video on how climate change has affected the people of the Arkansas Delta region. The video will be displayed alongside the upcoming art exhibition at the Arts & Science Center for Southeast Arkansas (ASC). We want to hear YOUR story!
We want to hear stories from the community about how the impact of climate-related issues such as floods, drought, landscape transformations, or climate-related legislation that may have affected your life or business. This will allow us to incorporate the Delta region’s agrarian history into the exhibition’s narrative. Have you noticed more or less of a particular species? Are the seasonal climate changes more or less pronounced since your time as a youth in the region, and has that had an impact on your business or health? Personal testimonies can be as simple as detailing how climate-related events have impacted one’s home, business or health.
“ASC is proud to exhibit artist Erica Daborn’s Dialogues With Mother Earth: Drawing To Save The Planet, a thought provoking series of large-scale murals focused on confronting the many complex issues surrounding the impact of climate change and cultural consumerism on not just our lives, but the lives of so many critical species around the world,” said Kevin Haynie, curator of collections and exhibitions.
“To accompany this exhibition, we are really interested to hear from the community any stories about how the region in which so many of us grew up in, work in, and invest our lives in has changed either through the effects of weather, the addition or depletion of important species of animals or plants, or how perhaps local, state, or national legislation has impacted your business as related to climate or agriculture.”
The exhibition and video project encourage members of the community to explore how they can be part of the solution in addressing climate change and in preserving that discussion for future generations.
Those who would like to share their story may contact Shakeelah Rahmaan at srahmaan@artx3.org.
Dialogues with Mother Earth: Drawing to Save the Planet is on view Feb. 23- Aug. 17, 2024, in the William H. Kennedy Jr. and International Paper galleries at ASC, 701 S. Main St. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesdays through Fridays, and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturdays.
The project and the exhibition are supported in part by the Arkansas Humanities Council, National Endowment for the Humanities, the Arts & Science Center Endowment Fund, and the Pine Bluff Advertising & Promotion Commission.
