Like the Waters, We Rise: Climate Justice in Print
The Nathan Cummings Foundation (NCF) in collaboration with Interference Archive, is pleased to announce Like the Waters, We Rise: Climate Justice in Print, a celebration of the bold, graphic work of print-based artists on the frontlines of the climate justice movement.
Like the Waters, We Rise documents the contemporary Climate Justice Movement (2005-present), which is in truth, a movement made up of movements, illuminating the many struggles, flashpoints, and victories by which communities have taken collective action.
The exhibit takes place in two parts. The first opens at NCF, and includes a selection of recent print based work (2005-present) beginning the year that Hurricane Katrina crashed onto the shores of the Gulf Coast. The second opens at Interference Archive in February 2020, and will include a collection of archival prints documenting the historical legacies of movements that gave birth to the current climate justice movement, including the Indigenous sovereignty movement, the farmworker movement, Black liberation struggles, and more.
The work shown within these exhibitions provides a partial look at a continually growing body of work, one that shows the growing strength and reach of the climate justice movement, a movement through which so many of our issues, struggles, and communities are connected.
This project was organized by Raquel de Anda (lead curator) and Nora Almeida, Ryan Buckley, Sophie Glidden Lyon, Josh MacPhee, and Siyona Ravi.
Participating artists include: AgitArte, Nikila Badua, Bemba PR, Rae Breaux, Mona Caron, Hannah Chalew, Onaman Collective, Kate DeCiccio, Alec Dunn, Design Action Group, Dignidad Rebelde, Extinction Rebellion, Juan R Fuentes, Gan Golan, Lacy Hale, Aaron Hughes, Jakarundi Graphics, LMNOP, Louisiana Bucket Brigade, Nicolas Lampert, Cesar Maxit, Saiya Miller, Dylan Miner, Sunrise Movement, The Natural History Museum, Peter Pa, Paperhand Puppet Intervention, Sadie Red Wing, David Solnit, Chip Thomas, Rommy Torrico, Jessica Sabogal, Rachel Schragis, Jess X Snow, Meredith Stern, Eleanor Warner, Josiah Werning, Ernesto Yerena, Bec Young.
Please join us for an opening reception on Thursday, November 21 from 6:00 – 8:30 p.m. at the Nathan Cummings Foundation. RSVP via Eventbrite is required to attend as space is limited. Guests are first come, first served.
To set up an appointment to visit the exhibition Monday-Friday 10:00 a.m – 5:00 p.m., please contact exhibits@nathancummings.org.