UMMA is working with the Neutral Zone to bring young minds, talents, and interpretations to the table in response to UMMA's exhibition of The World to Come: Art In the Age of the Anthropocene (April 27 - July 28, 2019). High school students, working with Neutral Zone resident artist, Sajeev Visweswaran, will create multicolored serigraphy poster images in response to this exhibition. Students working in different media such as music, video, and poetry are also invited to create work. Themes from the exhibition that will prompt the student's work will include environmental devastation, justice, and action.  All works created as a result of this partnership will be on display at the 37th Potential Exhibition, opening at the Neutral Zone on April 27 and on view through May 1, 2019.

 

The 37th Potential Exhibition, Washtenaw County Juried Teen Art Competition, opens at the Neutral Zone on Saturday, April 27, 5:30 - 7 p.m., awards Ceremony at 6 p.m. This year's exhibition juried by Jennifer Friess, UMMA's Assistant Curator of Photography. Gallery hours: 4/29 - 5/1, 12 - 6 p.m. Free and open to the public. The Neutral Zone is located at 310 E. Washington St. in Ann Arbor. Please contact Mary Thiefels (thiefels@neutral-zone.org), Neutral Zone Visual & Media Arts Manager, for more information.

The World to Come: Art in the Age of the Anthropocene is organized by the Harn Museum of Art at the University of Florida and curated by Kerry Oliver-Smith, Harn Museum of Art Curator of Contemporary Art. Support for the exhibition is provided by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, UF Office of the Provost, National Endowment for the Arts, C. Frederick and Aase B. Thompson Foundation, Ken and Laura Berns, Daniel and Kathleen Hayman, Ken and Linda  McGurn, Susan Milbrath, an anonymous foundation, UF Center for Humanities and the Public Sphere, UF Office of Research and Robert and Carolyn Thoburn, with additional support from a group of environmentally-minded supporters, the Robert C. and Nancy Magoon Contemporary Exhibition and Publication Endowment, Harn Program Endowment, and the Harn Annual Fund.

Lead support for the local presentation of this exhibition is provided by Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch, the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Michigan Medicine, Tom Porter in honor of the Michigan Climate Action Network, the Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe Endowment, and the University of Michigan Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design and School for Environment and Sustainability.