The Flow exhibit remained closed due to the stay-at-home COVId precautions, but concluded with this video artists talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5G44ksNurZw&feature=youtu.be.
Stacy Peterson and the Dubuque Museum of Art staff were great to work with on installing and all the effort to prepare images and the technical aspects of this, their first video talk. The four artists represented the region , Anna Metcalfe, Minneapolis, Minnesota;Jennifer Lynn Bates, Cedar Falls, Iowa ; Susan Knight, Omaha, Nebraska: and Missouri ( that’s Watershed Cairns) and different views of the river and ways of involving the viewers.
Anna Metcalfe used ceramic cups glazed with the stories people wrote about their experiences with the river at community tea parties. Many of the cups featured stories that Dubuque residents wrote at their tea Party last summer. Jennifer Lynn Bates created a large wall map of the river at Dubuque, with recycled plastic water bottles that she painted to to represent the levels of pollution in the river. Susan Knight’s work (on the right in this photo)involved layers of cutout and sometimes painted plastic to represent the currents deep under water.
Libby represented Watershed cairns and talked about the cairns and images from the Uppet Mississippi RIver that were in the exhibit. I was pleased to learn from Stacy’s introduction that the proposal for our Watershed Cairns traveling show was the impetus for this exhibit. Marketing occasionally bears fruit.