Nnenna Okore: Earth Matters
@ Drake Garden
4643 N Drake Ave Chicago, IL 60625
Opening Friday, June 16th, from 6:30PM - 8PM
Join us for the opening program for Nnenna Okore’s sculpture installation Earth Matters. This program is the third of four opening festivities for the Dreaming of a Future exhibition on the occasion of Threewalls’ 20th anniversary. Learn more about the program below!
Cost: Free and Open to the Public
Transportation: Participants are encouraged to use CTA public transportation and/or bikes to reach the event location. Drake Gardens is approximately an 8 minute walk from the Kimball stop on the CTA Brown Line, and 2 blocks away from the #81 CTA bus stop at Lawrence and Central park. If traveling by car, there is parking in the surrounding neighborhood.
Earth Matters, a sculpture, is designed as a response to our critical era when global waste production and climate change present an existential threat to humans and nonhumans alike. It offers an opportunity to call attention to waste issues through art, dialogue, and participation.
The sculpture project addresses the community-expressed desire to see more action taken by the local authorities to provide efficient and sustainable ways to curtail the number of reusable items that end up in landfill. It seeks to engage artmaking processes with bioplastics derived from organic waste, given that little attention has been paid to synthetic art materials’ negative ecological impact in schools, community centers, and homes.
Earth Matters is co-sponsored by the North River Commission and Threewalls.
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