CALL welcomes you to join us in conversation. CALL/ Conversations is a 3-part discussion series, that will help mold and create new windows of understanding for our key projects and broader mission.

For our second CALL/ Conversation on February 12th, we will look at Double Site as a fulcrum point that led to shifts in Mary’s practice and the conception of City as Living Laboratory (CALL).

In the first session, we focused on Mary Miss’s 1996 project Greenwood Pond: Double Site. Former museum director Max Anderson, arts attorney Christine Steiner, and Charles Birnbaum, who leads the Cultural Landscape Foundation, spoke about the controversy raised by removing the landmark environmental sculpture from the Des Moines Art Center’s collection.

These events will help CALL support artists to work with scientists and communities to address critical environmental challenges. The importance of the work lies in our framework – our working processes. This fundamental framework is incremental, long-term, and difficult to capture and share. Through conversation, we can convey our first-hand knowledge as well as consider the larger fields and impacts of our work.