[Headline]BGC Forum Presents Mary Miss, Charles Vörösmarty, and Andrew Revkin on Water

Clemencia Echeverri (b. 1950). Treno, 2007. Video installation. Courtesy of the artist.

If you have any interest in the environment, you ought to check out an event at the Bard Graduate Center this week bringing together three people who are grappling with the changes affecting the world’s waterways. Learn more below:

June 19, 2014, 6 – 8 pm
$10 general admission
212.501.3011, programs@bgc.bard.edu
bgc.bard.edu/restoring.html

Bard Graduate Center
38 West 86th Street
(between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue)
New York, New York 10024

Restoring Troubled Water: Mary Miss and Charles Vörösmarty in conversation with Andrew Revkin

The world’s rivers, streams, and lakes are under increasing stress as a result of climate change, development, and water mismanagement, all of which threaten aquatic biodiversity and the global water supply. This forum presents scientist Charles Vörösmarty on the challenges facing Northeast waterways and environmental artist Mary Miss on her work linking art with sustainability to redefine how we use water resources. Environmental writer Andrew Revkin will provide a context for understanding the global crises of water and the ways in which artists and scientists are involved in solving these problems.

Mary Miss is a New York-based artist and director of City as a Living Laboratory. Her recent project FLOW: Can You See the River? reveals how ordinary activities are connected to the history, ecology, origin, and potential of the White River water system in Indianapolis.

Charles Vörösmarty is professor of civil engineering at The City University of New York and director of the CUNY Environmental Cross-Roads Initiative. His research focuses on the development of computer models and geospatial data sets used in synthesis studies of the interactions among the water cycle, climate, biogeochemistry, and anthropogenic activities.

Andrew Revkin is a science and environmental writer who has been covering environmental sustainability for more than three decades, primarily for the New York Times. He is the author of the blog Dot Earth and is the senior fellow for environmental understanding at Pace University.

This program is presented in conjunction with the exhibition Waterweavers: The River in Contemporary Colombian Visual and Material Culture [hyperlink: https://www.bgc.bard.edu/gallery.html] , on view through August 10 at the Bard Graduate Center Gallery.

About the BGC [hyperlink: https://www.bgc.bard.edu/]

The Bard Graduate Center’s Gallery exhibitions, MA and PhD programs, and research initiatives explore new ways of thinking about decorative arts, design history, and material culture. Located in New York City, the BGC is an academic unit of Bard College.

Bard Graduate Center Gallery
18 West 86th Street
New York, New York 10024

Gallery Hours
Tuesday through Sunday from 11 am to 5 pm
Thursday from 11 am to 8 pm

Admission
$7 general, $5 senior and students (valid ID); admission is free Thursday evenings after 5 p.m