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'The Art of Climate Change' – with Zaria Forman

Thursday 12 October at 6:00pm (BST)

Zoom

You are invited to join us for a Zoom webinar with the acclaimed US artist, Zaria Forman.

Please use this link to connect to the webinar: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/92562310807

Zaria Forman’s remarkable pastel drawing ‘Lincoln Sea’ is on loan to Selwyn College for the next year and displayed in the Harrison Room. To celebrate this exhibit, we have invited Zaria to give an illustrated talk about her work and her mission to document climate change through hyperrealistic and beautiful artworks.

Zaria Forman began this project in 2016 when she was invited to join NASA’s Operation IceBridge, an ongoing airborne science mission that has been mapping changes in the ice over both polar regions for over a decade. The data collected is critical in helping us understand how climate change is affecting our planet. She channelled her experience into a series of pastel drawings, depicting the vast polar landscapes as seen from above—Lincoln Sea, completed in 2019, is one of these. To see something of the scale and quality of Zaria Forman’s artistry, watch the two-minute video of her creating the work ‘Whale Bay’: https://www.zariaforman.com/about.

The webinar will be hosted by Selwyn fellow - Professor Lynn Dicks – a conservation scientist and board member of Natural England. It will begin at 6.00pm (BST) and last for approximately 45 minutes.

Following her presentation, Zaria will be pleased to respond to your questions about her work. These can be submitted in advance to alumni-office@sel.cam.ac.uk or live via the ‘chat’ function during the webinar. There is no charge to join the webinar, which will also be recorded and available to view later on our YouTube channel.

Selwyn College gratefully acknowledges the support of alumnus Kelvin Chiu (2005) for the loan of Lincoln Sea and to Silverstrand Philanthropies in facilitating its display.

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