The Canary Project: Landscape of Climate Change
Cleveland Museum of Natural History
March 15, 2008 - August 10, 2008
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The Canary Project: Landscape of Climate Change
March 15 through August 10, 2008
Location: Kahn Hall
Our climate is changing: glaciers are melting; underwater reefs are dying; droughts, fires, and extreme weather events are mounting. Surely our environment is under stress, but how do we measure the impact and separate the fiction from the solutions?
The Canary Project is one of only two U.S. organizations that is using art to communicate the plight of the planet. The project derives its name from an earlier practice that was common in the coal mines. Miners would bring caged canaries deep into their underground shafts. As they worked, the miners kept a watchful eye over their canaries as the bright yellow songbirds would quickly grow ill and die if lethal levels of poisonous gas were present.
In a related way, the Museum’s exhibition of 22 of The Canary Project’s photographs offers a similar warning to humanity. The large, color images of landscapes ravaged by an unstable global climate were captured by artist and Canary Project co-founder Susannah Sayler; the landscapes reveal evidence of human-induced climate change at sites selected by leading scientists and journalists.
For More information and to buy ticket visit: http://www.cmnh.org/
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