InBetween: After 300,000 years on earth, and particularly since 1975, Homo sapiens have arrived at an ‘In-Between’ stage of planetary existence. As a species, we’ve managed to dramatically alter and transform what we call Nature. Changes in climate and the populations of plants and animals are happening at an unprecedented speed. Now we’re beginning to experience the initial results from our impact, and are facing an uncertain future.

InterTwined: Human activities, urbanization, and our subsequent disconnection from the natural world are the dominant causes of the climate and biodiversity crisis. One aim of this show is to emphasize the importance of Earth’s ‘InterTwined’ web of life. We are intimately connected with every living thing.

Hope: Our hope is for humans to love, nurture, and preserve our precious wild world. Conservation is economically wise, and essential to our survival.

Co-curators Joe Hemes and Anna Dibble selected artists Tim Christensen, Andreas von Huene, Anne Neely and Tom Zetterstrom whose work, like theirs, is driven by a deep emotional connection with, and concern for the air, land, waters, plant and all animal inhabitants, including human. The works in this show reflect the power of metaphor, symbolism, poetry, and humor.

Anna Dibble and Joe Hemes have been happily working together since 2018, organizing, designing, and making art for two large-scale, year-long arts and ecology installations in Maine, based on the effects of global warming and other human impact in the Gulf of Maine. Their last exhibit, SeaChange: Darkness & Light in the Gulf of Maine, will be part of an installation focused on the Penobscot River basin in an upcoming permanent Arts and Educational center at Wabanaki Public Health & Wellness in Bangor, Maine.

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