A reading with Ann Rosenthal
Contributor to Regenerative Infrastructures, published by Prestel
Thursday, August 22, 2013 // 6:00 p.m.
The Arsenal Gallery
Central Park, 64th Street and Fifth Avenue
"Our civilization has been built on non-renewable resources and an outmoded presumption that nature is limitless. Certainly art will continue to serve many purposes; however, for artists and designers who choose to engage in what Joanna Macy terms The Great Turning, what is the role of beauty?" Ann Rosenthal
Ann Rosenthal’s art installations address the local manifestation of global concerns, including climate change, food safety, and nuclear waste. Her work has been shown over the last decade at The Andy Warhol Museum and the Mattress Factory in Pittsburgh, Exit Art and the Hudson River Museum in New York, the Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education in Philadelphia, and Kunsthaus Kaufbeuren in Germany.
Ms. Rosenthal’s essays have been published most recently online in “Atomic Legacy Art” in the Women Environmental Artists Directory Magazine and the peer-reviewed Ecopsychology Journal. She teaches environmental art and design courses in Pittsburgh, and has developed an online graduate course, “Introduction to Eco/Community Art” for Plymouth State University in New Hampshire. She received her MFA from Carnegie Mellon University in 1999. Ms. Rosenthal owns an industrial building in Pittsburgh where she directs LOCUS—a creative commons where art, community, and ecology meet.
Regenerative Infrastructures was partially funded through:
Furthermore: a program of the J.M. Kaplan Fund
