Americans are increasingly worried about climate change, and a narrative of hopelessness and helplessness has taken hold in certain segments of the population. This talk will be an antidote to those feelings of impotence. This has been a record-shattering year for the deployment of all sorts of clean energy technologies. We added a record-high of [...]
To celebrate the end of our exhibition Of Baskets and Borers, we will host one final in-person event of the summer. Visiting us from Odanak in Quebec, Annette Nolett and her nephew, Luc Nolett, will provide us with a demonstration of basket making—from start to finish. Luc Nolett will demonstrate the ash tree pounding needed to separate the [...]
From New Hampshire’s Notches to the moors of England, the Arctic tundra, and beyond, this talk will root us in soil, moor, and stone as an invitation to inhabit and explore the alive-spaces at the intersection of ecological thinking, movement practice, and human and more-than-human worlds. Grounded in this place-based and practice-led methodology, the talk [...]
We hope you can join us in celebrating the opening reception for our new exhibition in the Silver Center for the Arts, Echoes of Resilience: Unveiling Stories of Devastation, Survival, and Hope. There will be remarks from MWM staff and light refreshments will be provided. After the devastating earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria in [...]
Wednesday, September 18, 7:00-8:00pm Silver Center for the Arts, Smith Recital Hall This lecture will explore various perspectives on resilience, trauma, and trauma prevention. Dr. Bayrak will approach these topics through a comprehensive lens, incorporating neurobiology, child development, physical and mental health, culture, and community. Her talk will emphasize the importance of early childhood and [...]
Please join us in celebrating the opening of our new exhibition, In the Path of Totality! The reception is from 3:00-5:00pm on Friday, October 4. There will be brief remarks and light refreshments will be provided. Plymouth State University students and faculty joined teams from 75 participating institutions as part of the NASA Nationwide Eclipse [...]
For the recent annular and total solar eclipses, the Nationwide Eclipse Ballooning Project (NEBP) immersed student teams in an innovative NASA-mission-like adventure in data acquisition and analysis through scientific ballooning. NEBP is unique in that it is an education project that has significant science objectives. First and foremost, NEBP focused on providing a career-changing hands-on [...]
What makes people care about sustainability? How can art be a motivational force for non-artists? Those were the questions I asked myself when the weight of the environmental crisis became so heavy I could no longer justify staying in the comfort zone of my studio. This talk is about the steps I took to figure [...]
Join artist Kim Bernard for a show and tell about how she creates sculpture that is recycled, kinetic, interactive, involves the community and is public. Working with materials such as ocean debris, bicycle inner tubes, bowling balls, reusable nylon bags and plastic, she aims to inspire and raise awareness about environmental issues, overconsumption and preserving [...]
The lecture will examine Robert Frost's 1914 book North of Boston through the lens of his links to New Hampshire. It will examine the ways that Frost sought to push back on ideas of rural backwardness and inferiority that were current at the time, especially in rural eugenics and rural improvement initiatives. Frost’s poems responded [...]