The Barry Lopez Foundation for Art & Environment introduces its exhibition program with an installation of three videos by Janet Biggs—Warning Shot, 2016, Brightness All Around, 2011, and Fade to White, 2010. Traveling to the high Arctic with a group of artists and scientists aboard the Noorderlict, a two-masted schooner build in 1910, Biggs’ compositions are a clarion call for a heroic landscape that will be completely transformed within our lifetimes. As the subject of centuries of exploration by Europe and the New World, the Arctic was once seen as indifferent to human enterprise, so vast and inhospitable as to be immune to any imposition. But the mining and fossil fuel industries established a firm hold in the twentieth century, and climate change is now projected to leave Arctic summers ice-free in as few as a dozen years.
January 21 - March 28, 2025
Center for Visual Arts at Boise State, 1110 S Capitol Blvd, Boise, ID 83706
Tuesday - Friday: 10 AM - 5 PM
Monday: CLOSED
Free admission
