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SUMMARY:To Understand A Tree – A Conversation with Artist Gina Siepel and Dr. Michael Mann
DESCRIPTION:To Understand A Tree – A Conversation with Artist Gina Siepel and Dr. Michael Mann | Thurs. April 25\, 2024 | University of Pennsylvania | The Agora Room in Annenberg Public Policy Center\, 202 S. 36th St\, Philadelphia | 12:00 – 1:00 pm ET | In-person & Zoom\nClick HERE to RSVP \nJoin the Penn Center for Science\, Sustainability & Media\, and the Museum for Art in Wood for an event during Penn Earth Week. Dr. Michael Mann will be in conversation with interdisciplinary artist and woodworker Gina Siepel\, whose exhibition To Understand A Tree is currently on display at the Museum for Art in Wood now through July 21\,2024\, and is a part of their environmentally-focused exhibitions. This event will be in person and via Zoom. \nPictured: The red oak tree at the height of autumn color\, 2019. Photo by Gina Siepel \nAbout the Speakers \n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				Portrait of Gina Siepel  \nGina Siepel is an interdisciplinary artist\, designer\, and woodworker\, based in Greenfield\, MA (Pocumtuc land). Their artistic practice reflects an engagement with place\, history\, queer experience\, and ecology\, and their work integrates conceptual concerns and craftsmanship with a focus on wood as a natural and a cultural material. Gina’s works have been shown in museums and galleries nationally\, she is currently a MacLeish Field Station Artist-in-Residence at Smith College\, and a 2023 recipient of a Teaching Artist Cohort Grant from the Center for Craft. \n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				Protratit of Dr. Michael Mann  \nMichael Mann is Presidential Distinguished Professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Science at the University of Pennsylvania\, with a secondary appointment in the Annenberg School for Communication. He is director of the Penn Center for Science\, Sustainability\, and the Media (PCSSM). He has received many honors and awards\, including NOAA’s Outstanding Publication award in 2002 and selection by Scientific American as one of the fifty leading visionaries in science and technology in 2002. He contributed\, with other IPCC authors\, to the award of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. He received the Award for Public Engagement with Science from the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2018 and the Climate Communication Prize from the American Geophysical Union in 2018. In 2019 he received the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement\, and in 2020\, he received the World Sustainability Award of the MDPI Sustainability Foundation. He was elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences in 2020. He received the Leo Szilard Award of the American Physical Society in 2021 and was named Humanist of the Year by the American Humanist Association in 2023. He is the author of several books including Dire Predictions\, The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars\, The Madhouse Effect\, The New Climate War and Our Fragile Moment. \n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				Please contact Katie Sorenson\, Director of Outreach and Communications\, at katie@museumforartinwood.org.
URL:https://museumforartinwood.org/event/to-understand-a-tree-a-conversation-with-artist-gina-siepel-and-dr-michael-mann/
LOCATION:Annenberg Public Policy Center\, 202 S. 36th St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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SUMMARY:Art for Action: Creativity in the Face of Climate Change
DESCRIPTION:Art for Action: Creativity in the Face of Climate Change | Thurs. March 27\, 2025 | University of Pennsylvania | The Agora Room in Annenberg Public Policy Center\, 202 S. 36th St\, Philadelphia | 12:30 – 1:30 pm ET | In-person\nClick HERE to RSVP \nJoin the Penn Center for Science\, Sustainability & Media\, and the Museum for Art in Wood for a discussion with artists and their call to action for our environment. Dr. Michael Mann will moderate the conversation with artists Katie Hudnall\, Kiersten Adams\, and Jessica Gath. This event will be in person only. A recording will be made available afterward. \nPictured: Katie Hudnall\, The Blower (detail)\, 2024. Photo by John Carlano \nAbout the Speakers \n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				Michael Mann is Presidential Distinguished Professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Science at the University of Pennsylvania\, with a secondary appointment in the Annenberg School for Communication. He is director of the Penn Center for Science\, Sustainability\, and the Media (PCSSM). He has received many honors and awards\, including NOAA’s Outstanding Publication award in 2002 and selection by Scientific American as one of the fifty leading visionaries in science and technology in 2002. He contributed\, with other IPCC authors\, to the award of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. He received the Award for Public Engagement with Science from the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2018 and the Climate Communication Prize from the American Geophysical Union in 2018. In 2019 he received the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement\, and in 2020\, he received the World Sustainability Award of the MDPI Sustainability Foundation. He was elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences in 2020. He received the Leo Szilard Award of the American Physical Society in 2021 and was named Humanist of the Year by the American Humanist Association in 2023. He is the author of several books including Dire Predictions\, The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars\, The Madhouse Effect\, The New Climate War and Our Fragile Moment. \n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				Jessica Gath is a possibilitarian who makes artwork in paint\, garments\, zines\, food\, correspondence\, community\, activism\, songs\, dirt\, plants\, videos and whatever else gets the job done. Cycles of life and our connections to Earth and one another are integral to her practice. Jessica is a founding member of Artists Commit\, an amorphous collective of artists working to support one another\, arts workers\, institutions\, and businesses built up around art and the art world in bringing environmental justice into mainstream conversation and practices. \n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				A Philadelphia native and [word] enthusiast\, Kiersten Adams writes proudly about her hometown and community. She is a West Chester University and Covid-19 pandemic graduate holding a B.A. in English with a focus on writing. A lover of art and culture\, Kiersten explores these concepts in multitudinous forms. Through journalism\, non-profit work\, photography\, and creative writing she is constantly finding new ways to obsess over what’s going on around her. Current Obsessions: Black joy\, Black futures\, Black Lives \n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				Katie Hudnall received her BFA in Sculpture from the Corcoran College of Art & Design and her MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University in Furniture Design/Woodworking. Hudnall lives in Madison\, Wisconsin\, where she runs the Woodworking and Furniture Program at the University of Madison\, Wisconsin. When she’s not teaching\, she spends her time making tools for problems both real and imagined. \nHudnall’s distinctive work is held in public and private collections and has been presented in exhibitions throughout the United States\, including Making a Seat at the Table: Women Transform Woodworking (Museum for Art in Wood\, 2019). She was a 2016 artist fellow in the Museum’s Windgate International Turning Exchange residency and a 2022 documentary artist fellow in the Windgate Arts Residency Program in Wood (WARP Wood). \nKatie Hudnall’s first museum exhibition\, The Longest Distance between Two Points\, is on view at the Museum for Art in Wood until July 20\, 2025. \n			\n				\n				\n				\n				\n				Questions? \nPlease contact Katie Sorenson\, Director of Outreach and Communications\, at katie@museumforartinwood.org.
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LOCATION:Annenberg Public Policy Center\, 202 S. 36th St\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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