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Join us TOMORROW, October 23rd, from 4:30 - 7pm for the opening of Eco-Social Realism!

We will have an opening talk at 4:30pm with curator Daniel Tucker and artists Keg de Souza, Sarah Kavage, Lize Mogel, and Kristen Neville Taylor, followed by a reception until 7pm.

Eco-Social Realism is a regional-scale, multi-site exhibition taking place at the Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery at Haverford College, Rowan University Museum of Contemporary Art, Street Road Artists Space, TILT Institute, and Big Ramp with public programs taking place at all of the exhibition venues and The WaterShed, Ulises, and Facing Bench. The exhibition brings together artworks that show an increased interest in bioregional and infrastructural practices that can visualize and embody the territorial scale of both problems and solutions related to the climate crisis.

More information at exhibits.haverford.edu/ecosocialrealism (link in bio)

Photos: 1. Daniel Tucker, 2. Keg de Souza, 3. Sarah Kavage, 4. Lize Mogel, 5. Kristen Neville Taylor

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The Eco-Social Realism exhibition and programs at the Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery and VCAM are supported by Haverford College’s John B. Hurford ’60 Center for the Arts and Humanities and the Tuttle Creative Residencies Program with faculty collaboration from Dylan Gauthier (Visiting Assistant Professor, Bi-Co Department of Environmental Studies).

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Save the date of Thursday November 5th from 5-7pm at @rowanuartmuseum for the final opening reception in the 5 venue Eco-Social Realism project! Featured Artists at this site include: Paper Buck, Carolina Caycedo, Federico Cuatlacuatl, Alicia Grullon, Aislinn Pentecost Farren and Karyn Olivier
RUMOCA is at 301 High Street in Glassboro NJ!
Let us know you are coming by RSVPing at the link in the bio!

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Please join us for TWO events with Eco-Social Realism artist Keg de Souza!

1. VCAMbient: Listening to Indigo - Bio-Sonification Demonstration
Weds 10/21, Noon, VCAM Lounge

Keg de Souza will host a deep listening session with indigo plants grown in the Haverfarm. Blue Gold links stories of indigo that are embedded in histories of both India (Keg’s ancestral lands) and the US, tracing the plant’s botanical entanglement with narratives of displacement, labour and exploitation. The event will use biofeedback sensors to translate the subtle electrical activity of living indigo plants into sound.

2. Banana Talk
Weds 10/28, 4:30, VCAM Screening Room

Bananas: A Wild Story explores the banana as a site of cultural, political and ecological entanglement. From colonial plantations to contemporary supermarkets, this everyday fruit reveals a complex story of globalisation, labour exploitation, monoculture plantations and myth-making. An original accompanying publication, Bananas: A Wild Story, will be printed and distributed to the public as part of the event. Alongside some banana-y tastings.

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Keg de Souza is an artist of Goan ancestry who lives on unceded Gadigal land in Sydney. Architecturally trained, she creates social and spatial environments, making reference to her lived experiences of squatting and organising with projects that use plant and food politics, temporary architecture, publishing and radical pedagogy.

Contact: dgauthier@haverford.edu

Organized by Dylan Gauthier, Visiting Prof. of Environmental Studies. Sponsored by HCAH in conjunction with the Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery exhibition Eco-Social Realism, curated by Daniel Tucker.

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The last day to view Extraction: A Dialogue of Extremes is this Saturday, October 17. Gallery hours are 10am-5pm Thursday & Friday and 11am-5 on Saturday.

Hope you can catch it!

#RUMOCA #artandscience #climatechange #landscape #NSFresearch

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Just a few days left to see the result of a partnership between Dr. Kipp and artist Diane Burko! Diane created paintings inspired by Dr. Kipp's work studying changing Arctic Ocean chemistry. The paintings (and a VR experience showing what it's like on a research ship!) are on display at the @rowanuartmuseum until Saturday.

Video by Rowan University

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We could not be more excited to invite you to the opening reception of Eco-Social Realism at Haverford College’s Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery (Whitehead Campus Center, 80 Coursey Rd, Ardmore, PA 19003).

Join us on Friday, October 23 at 4:30 PM for a talk by the curator and four of the participating artists, and then a reception in the gallery from 5:30 PM until 7 PM.

The Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery is one of five exhibit sites throughout the region and will include artwork from Keg de Souza, Sarah Kavage, Lize Mogel, Kristen Neville Taylor, Laurie Palmer, and Rosten Woo.

In addition to the opening, there will be several programs you will not want to miss, including:

+ VCAMBient Biofeedback Demonstration and Blue Gold Publication Launch on Wednesday, October 21 at 12 PM. in the VCAM Lounge, Haverford College

+ Banana Lecture and Bananas: A Wild Story Publication Launch on Wednesday, October 28, 4:30–6 PM in the VCAM Screening Room, Haverford College

+ SCALING UP & DOWN SCREENING
On Saturday, November 14, 5–7:30 p.m. at Ulises (1525 N American St Studio 104, Philadelphia, PA 19122). Featuring videos by Laurie Palmer, David Scott Kessler, Lize Mogel, and Brian Holmes & Jeremy Bolen (Moderator: Dylan Gauthier)

The exhibition and programs at the Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery and VCAM are supported by Haverford College’s John B. Hurford ’60 Center for the Arts and Humanities and the Tuttle Creative Residencies Program with faculty collaboration from Dylan Gauthier (Visiting Assistant Professor, Bi-Co Department of Environmental Studies, Haverford College)

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The DateKeepers’ Podcast: Let’s Have a Renaissance has just published my conversation with Mary Salvante, the Curator of Extraction: A Dialogue of Extremes. The full interview is on their YouTube channel. You can find it in the Linktree in my bio.

Our discussion takes place in Rowan University’s Museum of Contemporary Art diving deeper into the connection between these contrasting bodies of work: Arctic paintings based on NSF-funded climate research and mixed media works on Amazon mining and deforestation. We explore the tension between the two series— how the work uses beauty to address climate change.

The YouTube video illustrates the dynamic installation connecting the relationship between sculpture and painting while also diving deeper into my research and practice inviting a visual conversation to unfold…

Filmed by @k.supplee
Edited by @ava.hai

#dianeburko #datekeepers #RUMOCA #NSF #letshavearenaissance

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Join us for an artist talk with Eileen Neff on October 22 from 5 - 7 pm!

Gorillas on wheels. ⁠
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In 2018, Philadelphia artist Eileen Neff spent seven months photographing the restoration of two 1930s dioramas at the Academy of Natural Sciences. Arsenic in the taxidermy meant the crew worked in hazmat suits, and her camera caught them wheeling gorillas and takins in and out of their dioramas. "It was strangely emotional," Neff said.⁠
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Her archival research led her to Charles Willson Peale, the painter whose Philadelphia museum displayed taxidermied animals and whose portrait of Benjamin Franklin hangs in our current exhibition, At Liberty.⁠
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With the Academy of Natural Sciences museum now closed, Dr. Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw, Inaugural Faculty Director of the Arthur Ross Gallery, “would like to reflect upon the legacy of these institutions and the ways they were so key to the period of the early republic, and to the creation of a national culture around natural history and display and portraiture and museum practice, They were central to the cultural life of Philadelphia.” ⁠

𝗧𝗵𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵 𝗧𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗪𝗵𝗶𝗰𝗵 𝗜𝘀 𝗦𝗲𝗲𝗻: 𝗔𝗿𝘁𝗶𝘀𝘁 𝗧𝗮𝗹𝗸 + 𝗥𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻⁠
𝗧𝗵𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝗢𝗰𝘁. 𝟮𝟮, 𝟱–𝟳 𝗽.𝗺.⁠
𝗔𝗿𝘁𝗵𝘂𝗿 𝗥𝗼𝘀𝘀 𝗚𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗿𝘆⁠
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For the full story, visit the Arthur Ross Gallery Blog.⁠
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Image Credit: “Back in Place” by Eileen Neff, archival pigment on dibond, 60 x 61 inches, 2018; in the exhibition “Through That Which is Seen,” March 29 to May 22, 2027, Rowan University Museum of Contemporary Art. ⁠
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#EileenNeff #ArthurRossGallery #AtLiberty #AcademyOfNaturalSciences #RUMOCA #PhiladelphiaArt #PennArts

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Don't miss these 10 Shows closing soon in New Jersey ➡️
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Cover: Noelle Lorraine Williams: Black Revolutionary Women: 250 Years of a Colony Within a Colony. On view at Project for Empty Space through October 11, 2026. @blackpower_19thcentury @projectforemptyspace

#nj #njart #njartist #contemporaryart #gardenstateartguide

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Visit @rowanuartmuseum next Wednesday, Oct 7, 5-7pm for this student-only event!

Make art. See art. Eat snacks.

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Extraction, A Dialogue of Extremes, Diane Burko’s solo exhibition at Rowan University Museum of Contemporary Art, pairs two bodies of work: Arctic paintings based on NSF-funded climate research and works on Amazon mining and deforestation. The show was created as the research grant’s community engagement component. In this interview, curator Mary Salvante discusses how the exhibition came together, the tension between the two series, how the work uses beauty to address climate change, and what the museum hopes visitors take away.

Writer: Etty Yaniv @etty.yaniv

Featured Show: Extraction, A Dialogue of Extremes
Featured Artist: Diane Burko @dianeburko
Featured Venue: Rowan University Museum of Contemporary Art @rowanuartmuseum
On View through: October 17, 2026

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Can curiosity change the course of an artist's entire career? 🔬🎨

For Diane Burko, the answer began with a question about a landscape she had painted decades earlier.

That curiosity eventually led to scientific collaborations, environmental research and artwork that challenges us to consider our relationship with the planet.

Now, her work is on view at Rowan University Museum of Contemporary Art.

🌎 What unexpected connection between art and another subject would you love to explore?

Discover the story behind the art in this week's Jersey Arts Feature Story by Gina Marie Rodriguez.

Read more through the Linktree in our bio.
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#JerseyArts #DianeBurko #EnvironmentalArt #ArtAndScience #ContemporaryArt
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