Confluence Gallery presentation

Posted 20 September 2010 by Benj in Exhibits and Presentations, Facing Climate Change

I just picked up our prints from the Confluence Gallery in Twisp. Last Thursday night, we presented our Facing Climate Change work as part of the gallery’s beautiful Weathering Change exhibit that has been on view since the end of July. We had seven prints in the show from our reindeer and wildfire work.

Show opening at the Confluence Gallery

Posted 31 July 2010 by Benj in Announcements, Exhibits and Presentations, Facing Climate Change

Weathering Change opens Saturday, July 31 at the Confluence Gallery in Twisp, Washington. The show explores how society and the arts adapts to an evolving, changing world. A number of images from our Sámi and wildfire climate change work are on display. These are new prints made with Tyler Boley that were in the Ansel Adams Gallery last fall. As we enter the peak of fire season, we’re particularly excited to bring our wildfire images back to the valley from which they came.

We’ll be giving a talk at the gallery on September 9, at 7 p.m. Weathering Change runs through September 18, 2010.

Exhibit at SRG Gallery

Posted 6 May 2010 by Benj in Exhibits and Presentations, Facing Climate Change

Our show at the SRG Gallery in downtown Seattle opens today featuring seven prints from our Nordic stories. Work from local artists Sara Osebold and Vaughn Bell is also on display. The exhibit coincides with the Living Future 2010 UnConference for Deep Green Professionals to be held in Seattle May 5-7, 2010. (You can follow Worldchanging for more coverage of the conference.)

If you’re out for First Thursday, stop by between 5 and 8 p.m. and say Hi. The SRG Gallery is at 110 Union Street, on the third floor (across the street from SAM.)

The future of storytelling?

Posted 14 October 2009 by Sara in Exhibits and Presentations, Facing Climate Change, Press

Recently, we were lucky enough to spend a long-weekend in the North Cascades. Tucked beneath Sourdough Ridge, lined with its first dusting of snow for the season, Benj and I were co-teaching a workshop for North Cascades Institute called Will Write for Change: Communication Tools and Techniques for Activists. The team of instructors also included Pulitzer Prize winning author William Dietrich; Sam Knox, a guru on e-mail alerts and newsletters from One/Northwest; and senior researcher and blogger extraordinaire for Sightline Institute, Eric de Place. It was humbling to be in their company and also amongst so many inspiring participants, all working to make a difference in their own ways.

The night that everyone arrived, Benj and I were invited to share our work from Facing Climate Change and the next morning we presented more generally on multimedia storytelling. After the workshop, our new friend Eric wrote a blog post about us and the medium on Sightline Daily. Here’s an excerpt from “The Future of Storytelling:”

“It’s not as if Drummond and Steele invented multimedia – in fact, high-quality multimedia is getting cheaper and easier to produce all the time – just that they seem to be mastering an art form as it matures. Most importantly, they’ve got the knack that the best storytellers have for enlivening a scene and fleshing out a character, but not beating you over the head with The Moral Of The Story.”

What an honor! Thanks, Eric.

Changing Earth exhibition at the Ansel Adams Gallery

Posted 30 September 2009 by Benj in Exhibits and Presentations, Facing Climate Change

Blue Earth has partnered with the Ansel Adams Gallery at Napa’s Mumm Winery for Changing Earth: Photographer’s Call to Action. The exhibition opened in September and will run through March 2010. Six new prints from our Sámi and fire work are on display alongside images from seven other Blue Earth photographers: Daniel Beltrá, Stephen Harrison, Annie Marie Musselman, Camille Seaman, Florian Schulz, John Trotter, and Rebecca Norris Webb. I understand five prints were sold at the opening reception!

On November 7, 2009 we’ll kick off a five-part Saturday lecture series at the Mumm Winery with an hour-long presentation of our multimedia work. The series will continue with Camille Seaman on December 5, Stephen Harrison on February 6, John Trotter on March 6, and Florian Schulz TBD.

The Mumm Napa Fine Photography Gallery is located at 8445 Silverado Trail, Rutherford, CA 94558. The visitor center and fine art photography gallery is open from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. daily. If you’re in the Bay area on November 7 we’d love to see you!