The Climate Museum presents LOW RELIEF FOR HIGH WATER by Gabriela Salazar, Washington Square Park, Sunday, October 10

WHAT

The Climate Museum presents Low Relief for High Water, a full-day participatory art and climate community-building event. Salazar will present a performative, interactive exploration of themes of home, vulnerability, caretaking, and collective responsibility in the face of climate change through the medium of a sculpture crafted from water-soluble paper. The artist will invite visitors to take a piece of her sculpture, cast directly from her own home, and interact with it as a surface upon which to actively contemplate their own experiences.

Adjacent programming includes civic action opportunities and youth activities. This is a one-of-a-kind climate arts event, joining a community connected through our response to the climate crisis, openly exploring worry, loss, or fear, and carrying it forward into action.

WHO

Gabriela Salazar (@belugasalazar) has recently exhibited at Socrates Sculpture Park, theQueens Museum, and Storm King Art Center; and her work has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, hyperallergic, and The Brooklyn Rail. Salazar has been selected for the City Artist Corps Grants program, presented by The New York Foundation for the Arts and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, with support from the Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment as well as Queens Theatre. Her residencies include the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, and The Lighthouse Works, and she was a participant at the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture. Salazar holds an MFA from RISD and a BA from Yale University.

WHEN

Sunday, Oct. 10, 2021, anytime between 10am - 5pm

WHERE

Garibaldi Plaza, Washington Square Park, New York City

RSVP

Free and open to the public

https://climatemuseum.org/low-relief-for-high-water

Vaccinations and masks are required. This event will be photographed and filmed; by attending, you consent to the public, non-commercial use of your likeness.