Elephant in the Room: A Community Climate Crisis Art Show

Elephant in the Room

The monthly exhibits just keep rolling on at the San Geronimo Valley Community Center.

In April (in conjunction with NextGen Greenstitch Climate Action) we hosted  “The Elephant in the Room: A Community Climate Crisis Art Show” featuring local artists sharing perspectives on climate crisis. 

 

The Greenstitch artists made a wire mesh elephant and filled it with trash from Sir Francis Drake Blvd.

Greenstitch is a committed group of teens who work together to educate and empower themselves and the community about the climate crisis.

Along with the NextGen Greenstitch artists, contributors to the show included Richard Lang, Judith Shelby Lang, Kathleen Edwards, Laura Kradjan-Cronin, Anne McClain, Laurel Marenelli, Peg Hunter, Rea, Larry Rippee, Reid Marple, Deliah Cohen, Poppy Henderson, Larkin Sylvester, Paolo & Eddy Scafani, Janey Hughes, Corey vanGelder and climate art posters by Christi Belcourt, Jan Burger, Jackie Fawn, Killjoy Mall and David Solnit as well). The Climate Fest was held on April 22nd, the exhibit concluded at the end of April.

 

Here’s a few (too few) shots from the show:

 

Molly Rea and Laura Kradjan-Cronin

Molly Rea, Laura Kradjan-Cronin and Janet Hughes

Anne McClain, Laura Kradjan-Cronin and Corey vanGelder

'Hungry Ghosts' by Laurel Marinelli

“Sea-Span” Richard Lang and Judith Selby Lang

 

SEA-SPAN Where's the remote? is the question, as we invite people to sit and enjoy the 24/7 programming on our TV set. Although we are ready-set for super-HD, 4K-resolution viewing pleasure, it seems that there is nothing but junk on the tube, just a live feed from SEA-SPAN. 

When our ages-old Samsung TV went kablooey, we bought one of the new HD big flat screens. We wondered what to do with the old one. Throw it away? But, where is away? Instead of hauling it to dump we decided to fill the screen with brightly colored bits of plastic collected from Kehoe Beach. We took out the inner workings; then laid in the pieces, pouring resin as we built layers from the front of the screen to the back. 

 

Gouach by Kathleen Edwards:

“The Weaving ‘by Kathleen Edwards

Molly and I joined in as well:

“Fracking Fairy Tales” by Molly Rea

“Canary in a Cold Mind” by Molly Rea

“Banjo at Armageddon” by Larry Rippee

Richard Lang and Judith Selby Lang’s “Trash Castle” (originally created and exhibited on Huntington Beach) closer to home, on the corner of Sir Francis Drake and Lagunitas School Road, as part of the Greenstitch Climate Action's Climate Fest. 

 

Each pole of the castle has a distinctive theme representing categories of items they have collected from Kehoe Beach in the Point Reyes National Seashore: water bottles, straws, caps, drink cups, food wrappers, cutlery, balloons, toothbrushes, and foam.

 

 It is estimated that 15 million metric tons of plastic flood into the world’s oceans every year. That’s the equivalent of two garbage trucks filled with plastic entering the water every minute. The Lang’s hope that visitors to their “Trash Castle” will marvel at the variety and amount of plastic on their castle towers and will be moved to take action to help stem the tide of plastic pollution.