Daily Archives: April 5, 2024

Saturday & Sunday, April 27 & 28, 11:00 am – 3:00 pm – Rise Up Boston: A Climate Event

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Join The Museum of Science on April 27 and 28 for a lively weekend of hands-on activities, enlightening live presentations, climate conversations, and much more! Meet with some of the people who are making a difference addressing climate change at tables throughout the Museum, and talk with Museum educators. This two-day event is all about informing, empowering, and inspiring action. And it’s just the beginning, as we all work together to make a difference!

The Museum of Science is committed to offering experiences that highlight the impacts of climate change around the world and here at home. We encourage visitors (in-person and online) to learn about the impacts of a changing climate, consider the perspectives of others, become more confident in taking action, and discover ways to be part of the solution through individual and collective action. Event highlights include exhibits on Changing Landscapes, Arctic Adventure: Exploring with Technology, and the Gaia Glob, UK artist Luke Jerram’s awe-inspiring artwork. There will be live presentations and activities as well – explore at www.mos.org

Through June 30 – PLATFORM 32: Andrea Carlson, Last Out

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Andrea Carlson’s works bring liminal dreamlike places, somewhere between the reality of our current colonial wasteland and the world our ancestors brought into existence. Through painted and drawn surfaces, her real and imagined spaces confront western notions of the form and function of landscape paintings. Her arresting images often utilize the organization and visual frameworks of campy horror films and graphic comic books to address issues such as cultural cannibalism, stereotypes, and survival of Native culture and stories. Last Out will be on view at the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, 51 Sandy Pond Road in Lincoln, through June 30. Visit www.thetrustees.org for more information and directions.

Last Out uses traditional indigenous storytelling to confront the history and present circumstances of the violent colonial repression against native peoples in New England. Taking inspiration from the text Firsting and Lasting: Writing Indians out of Existence in New England by Jean O’Brien (White Earth Ojibwe), the title Last Out references how local histories have become the way in which European Americans assert their own modernity and deny native realities. In particular, the story of one woman: Weetamoo, a Wampanoag chief who led her people against English invasion in an attempt to stave off colonialism. Rather than focus on the legacy of Weetamoo’s tragic death or the violent landscape that she was born into, Carlson attempts to show a path, a history, a journey – framed by bent trees, soaring mountains, and distant oceans – where indigenous people are no longer the “last out” but rather the ones who continue to remain.

Andrea Carlson earned her BA in studio art and American Indian studies from the University of Minnesota (2003), and her MFA in Visual Studies from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design (2005). Her art is in numerous museum collections, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, Walker Art Center, and National Gallery of Canada. Major group exhibitions include Hearts of Our People: Native Women Artists, 2019-21, which traveled to multiple venues including Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum, and Art for a New Understanding: Native Voices, 1950s to Now, Crystal Bridges Museum of Art, Bentonville, AK, 2019-20.