“This project kind of grew and became very much about what are we giving to the next generation, and that’s kind of what I brought to it, and I was really invested in how we could get kids to be a part of the conversation,” Drake said. “So there are artworks that are put on the wall, and they are overlaid and juxtaposed together, and so their drawing or artwork of a park starts to disappear or stand out a little more based on what someone else has done,” Drake said. ![]() Participants are invited to color one of four Syracuse Parks – Barry Park, Elmwood Park, Onondaga Park, or Thornden Park – on plexiglass. Drake’s exhibition includes an interactive component, “Shared Impact,” that allows participants and viewers to reflect on the climate crisis. © 2023 Toluwanimi FajoluĬarrie Drake, a teacher at the Montessori School of Syracuse, uses community and the impact of climate change on future generations as a driving force of her installations. And so, we need to protect our environment in many ways, and not just to protect birds, to protect all living things, including ourselves.” Each bird on the map represents about 500,00 birds. They’re telling us something in their absence. “Therefore, birds are like the messengers for our whole environment. And I can do something about this, and that’s what I hope people leave with,” Welych said. And then I want you to think we have a problem. “I want you to feel kind of some love for them. She hopes her exhibition shows people that the dwindling of birds is a problem that affects us all and how we can help. Welych’s exhibit is accompanied by a series of collages of a bird and the percentage lost over 50 years. This installation uses scientific metadata from 50-55 years ago and 2016-2019 to show how some populations have decreased. Welych’s “Dwindle” is inspired by the gradual reduction of bird populations all over America. All three artists used the scientific and communal impact of climate change as a driving factor for their various installations. The exhibition is a three-part collection from Anita Welych, Christine Chin, and Carrie Drake. ![]() ![]() I hope that people feel empowered or inspired,” ArtRage community engagement organizer Kim McCoy said. “Issues around climate change can feel incredibly depressing and disempowering. This spike has accelerated the rise of sea levels and increased droughts, among other negative environmental impacts.Īt ArtRage Gallery, the current exhibition, “Climate Connections: Our Shared Future,” hopes to inspire and empower the community despite these detrimental impacts. What’s happening at the individual level of what’s happening as we work together or don’t, how are we impacting each other?ĭespite fewer people traveling during the pandemic, levels of carbon dioxide and methane continued to increase in 2020. And we were sort of missing or we could use more of that. Anita Welych: I decided to document visually, I’m creating sort of a giant infographic in a way of the decline in bird species over 50 or 60 years and that this is what we used to have for these species, and now what we have is really only 39% of what there used to be, and that moving forward, it’s going to get worse unless we act to preserve spaces for birds to live and make conscious decisions about how we live our lives.Ĭarrie Drake: The artwork that I put together for the gallery also came out of those conversations of, okay, who were we talking to? What’s happening in the gallery? What were Christine and Anita putting together for the gallery and where, where were some of the empty space or what we’re missing in our conversation about climate change here? And I thought Anita and Christine really beautifully talked about data and hard facts and information and share that in a very accessible and phenomenal way.
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