CALL invites you to join us in conversation. CALL/ Conversations is a 3-part discussion series, that will help create new windows of understanding for our key projects and broader mission. Join us at the first session at 6 pm, on November 7th, at the home of Tom Bishop and Katie Ford. Light refreshments will be served.
CALL/Conversations Part 1 will focus on Mary Miss’s 1996 project Greenwood Pond: Double Site, covered in this recent Art News article. Former museum director Max Anderson, arts attorney Christine Steiner, and Charles Birnbaum, who leads the Cultural Landscape Foundation, will consider the issues raised by removing this landmark environmental sculpture from the Des Moines Art Center’s collection.
All of the ticket costs are tax-deductible
The second conversation will take place on February 12th and highlight Double Site as a fulcrum point that led to shifts in Miss’s practice and the conception of City as Living Laboratory (CALL). The third event in mid-April will focus on two major CALL initiatives – the urban scale projects WaterMarks in Milwaukee and the Cloudburst Project in New York City.
These events will help CALL support artists to work with scientists and communities to address critical environmental challenges. Please consider supporting CALL with a contribution if you cannot attend. Through conversation, we can convey our first-hand knowledge as well as consider the larger fields and impacts of our work.