Mary Mattingly: Last Library
Mary Mattingly: Last Library
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Mary Mattingly is the Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØArt Museum’s 2020 artist-in-residence. In her artwork, Mattingly combines Earth sciences, ecology and utopian ideas to communicate information about the Earth’s changing climate and human response to our physical environment. Her installation, Last Library: Reading Rooms, Bridges and Tools for Integrating Ecological Ethics into Practice, stems from her belief that art and ecotopian thought can cultivate social change. Architects, artists, ecologists, farmers, indigenous knowledge holders, museum visitors and philosophers contribute their knowledge and stories to the toolkit to enhance our understanding of a shared ecology.
The Last Library includes designs for an Ecotopian Library created by undergraduate students in the Program in Environmental Design and artifacts, specimens and other materials from the College of Engineering; Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØArt Museum; departments of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and Geological Sciences; the Museum of Natural History; private lenders; and University Libraries.
As part of the Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØArt Museum biennial residency program, artists are invited to mine Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder’s creative and intellectual resources to create new artwork while interacting with faculty and students. The artist-in-residence program and exhibition is curated by Sandra Q. Firmin, director, Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØArt Museum. It isÌýgenerously supported by Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder Student Arts and Cultural Enrichment fees, and Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØArt Museum members.
On view February 6–July 18, 2020.
Opening reception, February 6, 5–7 p.m.