Art Installation

[Robert Neustadt]

The art installation, “What kind of world will we leave our youth,” that you and many of your students submitted photographs for is scheduled for install tomorrow, March 29, during the Climate Chance Teach-in. At this point the weather is looking dicey in terms of wind and snow on Thursday.

 

As of now, we’ll plan to begin installation of the portraits around 9:30 am. We’ll continue installing them throughout the day as people arrive to help. The final push to complete the installation will be between 3:45-4:45 pm.  We’d love to have lots of help! This is a collective art action it is meant to be a group activity.

 

So, please come and invite your students to come if and when they can!

 

What kind of world will we leave our youth? We posed this question to students, faculty, and community members and they responded with these photographs. 

Each one of these photos represents someone from our community who is confronting this question. The photos stand as a silent presence of people from our community who are now posing this question to passersby, viewers, to other members of our community. What kind of world will we leave our youth? The answer to the question remains unanswered, and yet the question is urgent. We are inviting people to join our action and to help us bring these photos and the question into view. What kind of world will we leave our youth?

 

This action, initiated by Robert Neustadt, Shawn Skabelund and implemented by a great number of students, faculty and community members is in collaboration with Inside/Out: The People’s Art Project, and sponsored by the Frances B. McAllister Climate Education, Engagement, and Design Fellowship Program.