Join us on a tour of the Waterlines exhibition with Community Curator, Arlinda Shtuni.
As a Somerville-based curator, Arlinda has organized successful art shows, literary, and musical salons at local galleries and other art spaces including the Nave Gallery, the French Cultural Center, the Dante Alighieri Society, I AM Books, and others.
Having recently held a communications and curatorial role at the oldest architecture firm in Boston, Shepley Bulfinch, she directly engages with exploring the inextricable role of water in urban development and the concerns and opportunities around climate change, especially for a coastal community such as Boston.
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ADMISSION: $10/person; Somerville Museum active members free (with code MEMBER); no charge for children under 12 years old. Admission to this event also includes exhibition admission.
PARKING: The Somerville Museum has no dedicated parking spots. Please note visitor parking spots on Westwood Road, Central Street, and Highland Ave. Visit our website for more information.
ACCESSIBILITY: The Somerville Museum is now ADA compliant. For more information contact us at info@somervillemuseum.org.
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Curated by Community Curator, Arlinda Shtuni, Waterlines: Stories of Urban Ebb and Flow presents newly rendered works by five noted local artists that invite us to consider the ecological, spiritual, and social dimensions of water and ask us to reawaken our personal connection with it. What is your relationship with water? Take the water questionnaire: https://artsalon.survey.fm/waterlines-questionnaire.
Participating Artists: A+J Art + Design/ Ann Hirsch + Jeremy Angier, Caitlin & Misha, Faith Johnson, Georgie Friedman, and Heather Kapplow
As human beings, we are powerfully drawn to water. Every important passage of our lives is touched by water. However, as urban dwellers, we often have an abstract connection to it, as invisible infrastructures and complex systems of water lines bring it to us. How has our need for water shaped the city over time? And as our cities densify and water cycles change, how can we envision the future? How will we navigate droughts and floods, learn to adapt to our changing environment, and move in new ways?
The exhibit also showcases, Dialogues with Water, a site-specific installation of soundscapes and sound acousmatic works by a group of Northeastern University music students guided by Pr. Hubert Ho. From inviting us to follow the journey of underground water rise to the surface, to letting us meditate near calm waters, and thrusting us into a storm, these aesthetically eclectic pieces respond to the exhibit in myriad ways. At times, the sonic landscapes meld naturally with the artworks; at others, the sounds work in counterpoint with them, prompting full immersion and deep reflection on our complicated relationship with water.
You can learn more about Waterlines here: https://www.somervillemuseum.org/waterlines