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Art That Matters to the Planet: Wild America

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Posted by: Roger Tory Peterson Institute
Deadline: Fri, January 10th, 2025

Art That Matters to the Planet: Wild America
March 22 – July 27, 2025

Call link URL: CaFÉ
Contact Email: rkosinski@rtpi.org

The Roger Tory Peterson Institute in Jamestown, NY, invites artists to submit work for our fourth annual juried exhibition of Art that Matters to the Planet.

Art that Matters to the Planet explores the ways in which art and artists can help to shape a more sustainable future. Art that Matters to the Planet: Wild America will coincide with the 70th anniversary of the publication of Wild America: The Record of a 30,000 Mile Journey Around the Continent by a Distinguished Naturalist and His British Colleague, by Roger Tory Peterson and James Fisher.

 

We are pleased to announce that Kenn Kaufman will be serving as the juror for 2025. Kaufman is an American author, artist, naturalist, and conservationist who was strongly influenced by the artwork and writing of Roger Tory Peterson. In particular, Wild America inspired Kenn to pursue birds all over North America while he was still a teenager.

 

With Art that Matters to the Planet: Wild America, we will consider three main themes:

Exploration. In the spirit of the Big Year, we encourage submissions from artists who incorporate exploration of, knowledge about, and advocacy for the wild places of North America.  Place-based artworks. We hope to see artworks that share the unique spirit of the wilderness around you in a way that inspires us to discover it or re-discover it through new eyes. Environmental impact. With this exhibition, we hope to learn about the impact of conservation efforts which have taken place over the past 70 years, as well as ongoing efforts to preserve the natural world.

  

 Exhibition summary:

1953-55: Wild America

In April of 1953, Roger Tory Peterson met his British cohort James Fisher in Newfoundland, and together they began a 100-day, 30,000-mile journey around the continent, documenting the birds, scenery, and people they saw along the way. Their journey was later documented in a book called Wild America, first published in 1955.

 

2025: Art that Matters to the Planet: Wild America

2025 marks the 70th anniversary of the publication of Wild America. Along with this anniversary, the Roger Tory Peterson Institute (RTPI) is revisiting the journey and publication with Art that Matters to the Planet: Wild America, a juried exhibition of artworks which tell a story about the wild spaces in North America. With Art that Matters to the Planet: Wild America, RTPI will revisit the original journey through the eyes and voices of artists living in the areas visited by Peterson and Fisher, and by artists who incorporate exploration of nature into their practice.

 

Artists will be judged based on three criteria:

1)      Originality: artwork that explores dynamic ways to communicate and demonstrates the persuasive role that artists can play in advocating for the preservation of our earth.

2)      Personal Voice or Vision: artwork with an authentic and unique point of view and style, especially in regard to the artist’s understanding of/research about their subject(s).

3)      Technical Skill: artwork that uses technique to advance an original perspective or a personal vision or voice, and shows skills being utilized to create something unique, powerful, and innovative.

In a world of exceptional natural beauty and overwhelming environmental challenges, help us to make a case that art is indispensable to create a better world.

 

 

 

Posted on Mon, November 4th, 2024
Expires on Fri, January 10th, 2025

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