Our Exhibits

AUDIENCE: General

RENTAL FEE: $4,000 + shipping for an 8-week booking

SIZE: Approximately 1,500-2,000 square feet

SECURITY: High

The catalyst for this traveling exhibition was an event planned by the Green Museums Initiative (GMI) of the California Association of Museums in October 2011.

GMI hosted statewide dialogues on regional ecological issues and the role museums might play in building healthy communities, both human and in nature.

Contemporary artists from each region joined museum leaders, scientists, environmentalist, and community stakeholders for the daylong discussions.

Ignite! The Art of Sustainability will exhibit the dynamic works created by these artists based on their discussions and the issues that arose in each regional dialogue. The Exhibition will organically emerge featuring artworks by these contemporary California artists who work in mixed media, often using found, reused and recycled materials. Curated by Kate Davies, independent curator and writer.

Roundtable Artists / Region
Kim Abeles  / Los Angeles Basin
Robert Dawson / Bay-Delta-Monterey Peninsula
Sant Khalsa / Southland Deserts-Inland Empire
Judith Lowry / Sierra Nevada Western & Eastern Foothills
Linda MacDonald / Northern California-Redwood Empire
Ann Savageau / Central Valley
Kim Stringfellow / San Diego

Additionally, Ignite! will include other contemporary California artists whose work also addresses themes of environmental sustainability. These artists include:
Penelope Gottlieb / Santa Barbara
Newton and Helen Mayer Harrison / Bay Area
Gyöngy Laky / Bay Area
Luke Matjas / LA Basin
Daniel McCormick / Bay Area

More artists to be announced.

The exhibition includes:

• 27 original artworks with labels
• Introductory and theme text panels
• Public Program Grants available