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The Climate Museum Engages New Yorkers with Climate Change

A New Window Installation by Artist Zaria Forman

9.5 ft. x 14.5 ft. window installation now on view at the Parsons School of Design’s Arnold and Sheila Aronson Galleries at 66 Fifth Avenue

The installation, Whale Bay, Antarctica No. 4, will be celebrated on January 8, from 6:00pm to 8:00pm.

December 21, 2018, New York — The Climate Museum has opened the first leg of In Human Time, the organization’s inaugural exhibition in partnership with the Parsons School of Design’s Sheila C. Johnson Design Center (SJDC). The two-part exhibition In Human Time features work by artists Zaria Forman and Peggy Weil, and examines intersections of polar ice, humanity and time. The first part — Zaria Forman’s large-scale work Whale Bay, Antarctica No. 4 — is now on view 24-hours a day in the gallery’s street-facing window through January 15. The Climate Museum is an organization establishing a museum dedicated to climate issues and solutions in New York.

The massive, highly detailed drawing captures a breathtaking moment in time in a rapidly changing ecosystem. The reproduction is presented with a time-lapse video capturing the making of the work.

“I am thrilled and honored to be included in the Climate Museum’s first exhibition! I hope my drawing Whale Bay No. 4 will give viewers a chance to experience and connect with the otherwise distant landscape of Antarctica,” said artist Zaria Forman. “If people can experience the beauty of this remote region at the forefront of climate change, perhaps they will be inspired to protect and preserve it.”

The work, Whale Bay, Antarctica No. 4, will be celebrated at an informal public reception with the artist on January 8, from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. in the main lobby of the SJDC, 66 Fifth Avenue.  The artist will be joined at the reception by Joel Towers, the executive dean of Parsons and a trustee of the Climate Museum, as well as Miranda Massie, director of the Climate Museum.

The reception is open to the public and will include free hot drinks and treats that visitors can bring outside, as well as soundscapes Zaria Forman recorded on an expedition in Antarctica in 2015.

Forman’s works have appeared in The New York Times’s T Magazine, National Geographic, Smithsonian Magazine, The Wall Street Journal and The Huffington Post. Forman’s 2016 TED Talk has aired on PBS. 

“We are delighted to present Zaria’s work in partnership with the extraordinary Sheila Johnson Design Center at Parsons as the first part of our first exhibition, In Human Time,” said Miranda Massie. “Zaria’s work exemplifies the power of art to build the climate conversation, provoking intense feelings of intimate connection and awe, key emotional pathways toward a new climate citizenship. “

The second part of In Human TIme will begin on January 19, 2018 with the installation of work by artist Peggy Weil. 

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