Public Art and Ethics Seminar Seminar Series 2019
IUPUI Arts and Humanities Institute
Co-Organized by Jason M. Kelly and Pam Napier

Deep Time/Deep Futures with Nina Elder
4 April 2019
4:00-5:30 PM

Nina Elder will discuss her newest installation, The Score, commissioned as part of the IU Grand Challenges Prepared for Environmental Change project in partnership with City State. Nina Elder is an artist, adventurer, and arts administrator. Her work focuses on changing cultures and ecologies. Through extensive travel and research, resulting in meticulous drawings and interdisciplinary creative projects, Nina promotes curiosity, exploration, and a collective sense of stewardship. Nina advocates for collaboration, often fostering relationships between institutions, artists, scientists and diverse communities. She is the co-founder of the Wheelhouse Institute, a women's climate leadership initiative. Nina lectures as a visiting artist/scholar at universities, develops publicly engaged programs, and consults with organizations that seek to grow through interdisciplinary programing. Nina's art work is widely exhibited and collected and has been featured in Art in America, VICE Magazine, and on PBS. Her research has been supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation, the Rauschenburg Foundation award for Arts & Activism, the Pollock Krasner Foundation, and the Mellon Foundation. She is currently an Art + Environment Research Fellow at the Nevada Museum of Art, a Polar Lab Research Fellow at the Anchorage Museum, and a Researcher in Residence in the Art and Ecology Program at the University of New Mexico.

Co-hosted with the IU Grand Challenges Prepared for Environmental Change project and City State

I/C Book Club: Hope in the Dark
5 December 2019
6:30-7:30 PM
1002 E Washington St.

Join us for the next title in the I/C Book Club, recommended by artist Nina Elder as part of the exhibition, The Score. “Hope in the Dark was written to counter the despair of radicals at a moment when they were focused on their losses and had turned their back to the victories behind them—and the unimaginable changes soon to come. In it, [Rebecca Solnit] makes a radical case for hope as a commitment to act in a world whose future remains uncertain and unknowable." (from the publisher). Participants are urged to read the books, collect the stickers, get a reward!

Co-sponsored with King Dough and Indianapolis Contemporary