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Artists Deville Cohen, Jessica Gath, Jenny Kendler, Laura Lupton, and friends join Rail contributor Julie Reiss for a conversation.
In this talk
Jenny Kendler
Jenny Kendler is an interdisciplinary artist, naturalist and environmental activist based in Chicago and various forests. Over the last two decades, her research-driven projects—centered on climate change and biodiversity loss—have been shown at London’s Hayward Gallery, New York’s Governors Island, Storm King Art Center, the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, the MCA Chicago and public locations as diverse as urban riverwalks, remote deserts and tropical forests. From 2014 to 2024 she was artist-in-residence with environmental nonprofit NRDC. She sits on Boards for 350.org and the artist residency ACRE and is a founding member of Artists Commit, an artist-led effort to raise climate-consciousness in the art world.
Laura Lupton
Laura Lupton is the founder and principal of LHL Consulting, an incubator for ideas that center art, climate, and our collective future. Working at the intersection of art and climate, Laura is the co-founder of several collaborative ventures including Galleries Commit, Artists Commit, Barder, and the Visual Arts PACT, and is on the founding committee for the Gallery Climate Coalition New York chapter. In addition to recent climate action projects with clients like the ADAA, MOCA, and Hauser & Wirth, she is currently working with Getty to lead the PST ART Climate Impact Program.
Julie Reiss
Julie Reiss is an independent art historian and critic with a focus on contemporary art that addresses the climate crisis and the role artists play in social change. She is the editor of Art, Theory and Practice in the Anthropocene. She is also the author of From Margin to Center: The Spaces of Installation Art. Julie teaches courses on Art and Sustainability at Columbia University where she is also a Visiting Critic to the MFA department. She is Consulting Editor to the Harpo Foundation, working on an anthology of essays about its founder, artist and arts advocate Ed Levine.
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