Greg Mort – eARTh The Art of Stewardship
Rosenberg Gallery
Greg Mort is a widely recognized American contemporary artist whose signature images combine his twin passions for science and nature. Throughout his career Mort has recognized the power of imagery and used art to share his passion for promoting environmental awareness. In 2007, he established The Art of Stewardship Project, a family foundation that supports and inspires ecological consciousness through the arts. When offered an exhibition at Goucher College in conjunction with the MAEOE Conference, Mort held true to his passion for community involvement and proposed we mount a public art project to run simultaneously with his exhibition. yOUR eARTh – The Art of Stewardship invites people to submit a 4” x 6” photograph answering the question, “What does earth stewardship mean to you?” The images will then be used to create a large-scale, site-specific photo collage installation which will continue to expand for the duration of the exhibition.
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ARTIST STATEMENT The arts have always had the ability to transcend language, culture, and the centuries. Since the dawn of our collective human memory, art in its myriad forms has expressed our hopes, our fears, and our loves while also serving as an interpretive record of the world around us. Then as now, the voice of art remains a powerful communicative tool. In the new millennium, the realization that we indeed live on “one world” carries with it responsibilities never dreamt of by our distant ancestors as they expressed their visions on cave walls and with carved fertility icons. We now recognize the fragility of our planetary home and the profound role each of us plays in the drama of life on Earth. Now more than ever the “artist” will play an ever-increasing part in a cast that must include…all of humanity. The Art of Stewardship is in fact a calling out to those who speak the language that is universally understood. One that has the potential to raise awareness, inspire, and celebrate our role as “stewards” of our tiny oasis in space. At this point in history no challenge is more important or more immediate in nature. Our very survival depends on it. Knowing this, I call on artists worldwide to help bring the notion of “stewardship” to the forefront of our conversations and consciousness.
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Splashdown, 2016 archival Giclee print on canvas 26” x 33” Stewardship II, 2016 archival Giclee print on canvas 23” x 40” Night Into Day, 2016 archival Giclee Print on canvas 29” x 40”
Stewardship III, 2016 archival Giclee print on canvas 28” x 40” One Worlds, 2016 archival Giclee print on canvas 35” x 48” Stewardship, 2016 archival Giclee print on canvas 28” x 45”
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January 3 – February 22, 2017 ARTIST’S TALK & RECEPTION:
Friday, February 3, 2017, 7-8:30 p.m. Rosenberg Gallery Presented in conjunction with the MAEOE conference, February 2-5.
Rosenberg Gallery GALLERY HOURS
DIRECTIONS
9 a.m. to 5 p.m. | Monday – Friday 410-337-6477
Baltimore Beltway, I-695, to exit 27A. Make first left onto campus.
The exhibit is free and open to the public. The Rosenberg Gallery program is funded with the assistance of grants from the Maryland State Arts Council, an agency funded by the state of Maryland and the National Endowment for the Arts, as well as the Baltimore County Commission on the Arts and Sciences.
17267-5470 12/16
www.goucher.edu/rosenberg