Currently Speaking: Poetry and Consciousness, presented by Bianca Stone, 2024 Vermont poet laureate.

Currently Speaking:
Public Programming for Taking Time: A solo exhibition by Chakaia
Booker and Climate Imprints
July - October 2024

Stowe, Vermont - The Current is pleased to announce a robust series of Gallery Engagement
events aligned with the summer and fall exhibitions, Taking Time: A solo exhibition by Chakaia Booker and Climate Imprints. These public programming events offer the local and more global community of visitors a series of opportunities to learn, explore, discover, and engage with exhibition themes. Presenters have been invited based on their professional experience and capacity to inspire a curious audience. All listed events will be hosted from 5-6:30pm, onsite at The Current and are presented free to the public.

Thursday, September 12: Currently Speaking: Poetry and Consciousness, presented by Bianca Stone, 2024 Vermont poet laureate. A poetry reading and talk will explore how our Cartesian confining of consciousness to the human brain has allowed for the unprecedented destruction of the natural world. This talk will discuss how poetry uniquely situates language as a medium in which to illuminate a much greater consciousness, accessing complex psychical relations between people, nature, the cosmos, and the unknowable.

Thursday, October 17: Currently Speaking: Artist Talk, presented by exhibiting artists, Chakaia Booker and Justin Sanz. Booker and Sanz will discuss their respective artistic practices, the history of the EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop where Chakaia creates her prints and Sanz is the Master Printmaker, and their work with EFA RBPMW.

About the Exhibitions:
Taking Time: A solo exhibition by Chakaia Booker. Internationally renowned multidisciplinary artist Chakaia Booker is best known for pioneering the use of recycled rubber tires as a raw material for monumental sculptural works. A fixture of the New York City East Village art scene since the early 1980’s, Booker has exhibited across the US, in Europe, Africa, and Asia, with works
included in more than 40 museum and private collections.

Climate Imprints. From lithographs to embroidered screenprints to woodcuts, The Current presents Climate Imprints, curated by three master printmakers of the highly acclaimed EFA Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, Chakaia Booker, Tara Sabharwal, and Justin Sanz. Artists include John Andrews, Chakaia Booker, Edward Fausty, Anna Fiacco, Rie Hasegawa, Essye Klempner, Shervone Neckles, Mohammad Omar Khalil, Tara Sabharwal, Justin Sanz, Sarah Sears, Yasuyo Tanaka, Ethan Tate.

About Currently Speaking:
The Currently Speaking series hosts experts in various contemporary art genres and media to encourage casual discourse and meaningful interactions between our community, speakers, and the art they showcase. Artists in this exhibition use the metaphor of a garden to address climate change, decolonization, feminism, societal tensions, and our endangered environment by
presenting work on the topic.

Taking Time, a solo exhibition by Chakaia Booker, is curated by Rachel Moore. Climate Imprints is curated by Chakaia Booker, Tara Sabharwal, and Justin Sanz. For more information on Public Programming events, contact Alexandra Sherrill: Gallery Engagement Specialist, alexa@thecurrentnow.org |+1 802 253 8358.

Sponsors include:
Town of Stowe
Union Bank

Grantors include:
National Endowment for the Arts
The Oakland Foundation
Vermont Arts Council
Wolf Kahn Foundation

In-Kind support includes:
Stowetoday.com
The Stowe Reporter
Sun and Ski Inn and Suites

The Current is your center for contemporary art. Exhibitions of acclaimed international and emerging artists. Adult and youth art classes and private lessons. School tours, film screenings, lectures, outdoor exhibitions, and summer art camps. All brought to you through the generous support of our sponsors, grantors, and members like you.

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