Watershed Lessons opens at the Art Gallery of Sudbury

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The Art Gallery of Sudbury invites you to the opening of the exhibition Watershed Lessons, featuring works by students from Laurentian University’s McEwen School of Architecture.

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Watershed Lessons explores the importance of Sudbury’s watersheds and water systems; our connections to them; and the lessons we can learn from them. This multi-faceted relationship is presented through drawings, a co-created sculpture and selected projects.

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The exhibition also encourages visitors to reflect on their own connections to Sudbury’s watersheds through Watershed Stories, a community map in the gallery space that invites visitors to share stories and memories related to local waterways.

The opening reception takes place on Oct. 23 from 5:30-7 p.m. at 174 Elgin St. The show runs until Nov. 23.

The gallery is open Tuesday to Saturday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. For more information, go to www.artsudbury.org or call 705-921-6666.

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“Watershed, by definition, is a geographical area that drains precipitation and snowmelt into streams, creeks, rivers, lakes, and oceans,” the Art Gallery of Sudbury said of the exhibition. “It’s what holds us together–the geology, topography, plant and animal lives, groundwater, from the smallest of fields to the largest of water basins as big as the Great Lakes. It bestows us lessons about multi-species, organic, and inorganic relations. It teaches us to be mutually responsible in the Anthropocene.

“Watershed Lessons features work on Sudbury ecologies initiated by the design research practice a.field (www.afield.ca). The exhibition, curated by a.field, contains drawings, a co-created sculpture, and selected projects by Laurentian University’s McEwen School of Architecture students. Watershed Lessons provides a snapshot of how a.field co-directors Kai Wood Mah and Patrick Lynn Rivers conduct their practice — through research, consultations, publications, and exhibitions.”

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The artists include Mah, Colin O’Neil, Andreo Mendoza, Jayden Igiraneza, Ifechkwu Elvis Kurume, Anna Sunil Alexiose, Rhys Price, Nadiene Saadawi, Sarah Clamp, Darby Bailey, Aiden Brown, Yumna Khan, Mathuri Muhunthan, Lauren Cailipan, Aidan Evans, Ryan Parker, and Zsofia Iszlai.

Cora-Rae Silk, Mah and Patrick Lynn Rivers are the curators.

A.field is a design research practice bringing comparative interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary perspectives to contemporary global challenges. The work of a.field is differentiated by its alignment of design with other disciplinary methods and approaches.

Mah is a licensed architect, design historian, and co-founder and co-director of a.field.

Rivers is a political scientist and interdisciplinary designer as well as co-founder and co-director of a.field.

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