Join MA-NMWA for a very special tour of the outdoor exhibition Nature Sanctuary with Sarah Montross, Chief Curator & Museum Director of the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum. We will also hear directly from participating artists Venetia "Tia" Dale and Evelyn Rydz, speaking in front of their works in the exhibition.
Nature Sanctuary is an outdoor exhibition that explores relationships between the natural world and ideas of home. Spanning the Sculpture Park’s front lawn and beyond, this exhibition features original, site-inspired commissions and loans by six women artists: Venetia Dale, Kapwani Kiwanga, Joiri Minaya, Zohra Opoku, Kathy Ruttenberg, and Evelyn Rydz.
The artworks of Nature Sanctuary express refuge, care, and shared protective relationship between humans and the natural world. Through their work, these artists consider past, present, and future ramifications of climate change, as well as deeper histories of land use and the migration of people, plants, and animals across homelands. Their projects also reveal contradictions inherent to a “nature sanctuary” and expose how the exclusion or displacement of living beings has been justified to protect the natural world.
More details to come.
