Author Elizabeth Rush to address responses to climate change at Imago

36 Market Street,Warren RI 02885

18 May, 2022

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Join author Elizabeth Rush as she addresses voices that have been traditionally left out of environmental discourse. Her talk, “On Rising Together: Creative and Collective Responses to the Climate Crisis" is one of a series of free, public community events being held as part of an exhibition called “Rising Seas: Envisioning the Future Ocean State” taking place at Imago Gallery in Warren and nearby saltwater marshes being impacted by sea level rise from April 21 – May 29. In this talk, Elizabeth Rush will speak about a small community on the eastern shore of Staten Island–– a place that Sandy both undid and remade from the ground up––investigating the storm's aftermath and the radical decision residents made to retreat from rising seas in an attempt to overcome their shared vulnerability. Rush is the author of Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction, and Still Lifes from a Vanishing City: Essays and Photographs from Yangon, Myanmar. She is the recipient of fellowships from the National Science Foundation, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, National Geographic, the Andrew Mellon Foundation, the Howard Foundation and others. Rush teaches at Brown University and is currently at work on a book about motherhood and Antarctica’s diminishing glaciers. Other events taking place after this event as part of this exhibition include: • A community open house on Saturday, May 21 from 10 a.m. to noon at Imago Gallery with Warren’s Director of Planning & Community Development Bob Rulli on resiliency projects currently underway in Warren and work the Town is doing to anticipate the impact of projected sea level rise in Warren residential neighborhoods in order to develop mitigation plans. • IFA-sponsored Conversations with Exhibiting Artists, Planners and URI experts on sea level rise from 5 to 8 p.m. on Thursday, May 26 at Imago Gallery in Warren. This program is being supported in part by a grant from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts, through an appropriation by the Rhode Island General Assembly and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, with additional funding from BankNewport.