I am now the overjoyed owner of a copy of the magnificent Hurricane Season: Caribbean Art and Climate Change (Gregory R. Miller & Co, 2024), thanks to the generosity of my dear friend [and founder & co-blogger of Repeating Islands] Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert!
Hurricane Season is the catalog for the exhibition “Hurricane Season: Caribbean Art + Climate Change,” curated by Mia Laufer. This fully illustrated catalog includes essays by Laufer and Dr. Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert (Vassar College), and poetry by Edwidge Danticat, Olive Senior, and Celia A. Sorhaindo.
Description: “Artistic resilience in the face of increasing meteorological threats to the Caribbean”
Hurricanes and the devastation they bring have long been a part of life in the Caribbean, but with climate change these storms are getting more frequent and more violent. In the face of these life-threatening climate catastrophes, artists can show us how these climate changes relate to a lived, everyday reality, and how they intersect with our experience of family, community and home. Hurricane Season is a story about a home under threat, cycles of environmental and political violence, and repairing communities despite the potential for them to be destroyed again.
“Hurricane Season” features 58 works in a range of media by six artists from across the Caribbean archipelago and its diaspora: Firelei Báez, Lionel Cruet, Teresita Fernández, Tamika Galanis, Deborah Jack, and Hew Locke.
These artists demonstrate the crucial role arts can play in this unfolding crisis by translating data sets and dire predictions into relatable terms, reframing the conversation around how changes in the climate relate to everyday lived experiences as well as to notions of community, family, and home. Through art, they succeed in converting a global crisis into human scale, acknowledging the grim realities of the climate crisis by emphasizing its toll on people and yet, also the possibilities of a better future. It is an exhibition about homes under threat as well as cycles of environmental violence and repair.
For more information on the exhibition, see https://desmoinesartcenter.org/art/exhibitions/hurricane-season/
For purchasing information, see https://www.amazon.com/Hurricane-Season-Caribbean-Climate-Change/dp/1941366619
See previous post https://repeatingislands.com/2024/07/12/hurricane-season-caribbean-art-climate-change/
I am now the overjoyed owner of a copy of the magnificent Hurricane Season: Caribbean Art and Climate Change (Gregory R. Miller & Co, 2024), thanks to the generosity of my dear friend [and founder & co-blogger of Repeating Islands] Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert! Hurricane Season is the catalog for the exhibition “Hurricane Season: Caribbean Art +
