Roundtable Conversation: Cross Pollination, Art, and Ecology
How can art spark a new appreciation for nature and our relationship to the world around us?
Join us in the Modern Art Galleries for a panel discussion on our temporary exhibition Cross Pollination: Heade, Cole, Church, and Our Contemporary Moment. Cross Pollination draws from collections at Olana State Historic Site, Thomas Cole National Historic Site, and Crystal Bridges to explore interconnections between art and science extending from the nineteenth century until now.
Exhibition artist Paula Hayes will join curators from each site to discuss how nature guides the art experience: William L. Coleman, Director of Collections and Exhibitions, The Olana Partnership; Kate Menconeri, Chief Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs, Contemporary Art, and Fellowship, Thomas Cole National Historic Site; and Mindy Besaw, Director of Research, Fellowships and University Partnerships and Curator, American Art, Crystal Bridges.
Don’t miss this chance to meet the people behind the art, explore the themes of Cross Pollination, and get an inside look at how exhibitions come together. See you there!
Free, no tickets required.
Support for this exhibition and its national tour is provided by Art Bridges.
Additional major support has been provided by the Henry Luce Foundation and Terra Foundation for American Art, and Galen, Debi, and Alice Havner.
About the Artist
Paula Hayes (born 1958 in Concord, Massachusetts) is an American visual artist and designer who works with sculpture, installation art, and landscape design. Hayes lived and worked in New York City for over two decades and now lives in Athens, New York since 2013. Hayes is known for her terrariums and other living artworks, as well as her large-scale public and private landscape commissions. A major theme in Hayes’ work is the connection of people to the natural environment, and much of her work is about the evolving relationship to growing and maintaining large and small-scale ecosystems.