Join the William Benton Museum of Art for a new exhibition, First Thursdays and more during February
February free events
William Benton Museum of Art • 245 Glenbrook Rd, Storrs, CT 06269
Seeing Climate Change?
January 16 – July 28, 2024
Opening Reception, Thursday, January 25, 4:30 – 6:30pm
Exhibition Walkthrough with Guest Curator Robert Thorson, Friday, February 16, 12:30pm • Click here to register
Salon – Building a Sustainable Future, Friday, March 1, 2024, 5-7pm • Click here to register
Technically, we can’t see climate change because climate is an abstraction, a categorical name for what we expect the weather to be. What we can see are natural phenomena related to climate such as tropical forests, desert dunes, and creeping ice sheets. This exhibition invites you to learn to see the effects of climate change in our daily lives by examining natural phenomena in works of art. How might the scene in a 19th century painting look different today, and how could the scene in a 20th century photograph look different in the future? Curated with Robert Thorson, Professor of Earth Sciences at UConn.
Exhibition highlights include Professor Thorson’s climate primer, which defines six key terms and explains their relationship to climate science through works of art; landscape paintings from 1850-1900, the interval used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change as a baseline for measuring climate change between “then” and “now”; and a series of Connecticut landscape photographs by James Welling that encourage us to visualize the year 2100.
First Thursdays
4:30-6:30PM
Visit with cute Pet Therapy dogs Wrigley and Tori
In partnership with Student Health and Wellness (SHaW)
3-6:30PM
At The Beanery
The Beanery Café will be open for drinks and snacks
4:30-6:30PM
In the Galleries:
- Live DJ with WHUS
- Craft: Create your own Valentine Cards
- Pick up an art sticker
- Do a fun scavenger hunt in the galleries with friend
For more information on First Thursdays click here.
Art Encounters: Sewing for Resistance
Sewing for Resistance is an interactive two-part Zoom workshop exploring the Museum’s collection of arpilleras.
Join Benton educators for an interactive two-part workshop exploring the Museum’s collection of arpilleras, brightly-colored patchwork pictures that chronicle the lives of the poor and oppressed in Chile during the 1970s and 1980s. Learn more about arpilleras through close looking and discussion. Then design and construct an arpillera-inspired notecard.
Click here to register.
Materials kits available for registrants at the front desk one week before the program.
This is a free event
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