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Seeing Climate Change? Exhibition at The Benton

Name: Seeing Climate Change? Exhibition at The Benton
Start: 2024-01-16T00:00:00-05:00
End: 2024-03-06T23:59:59-05:00
Location: The Willian Benton Museum of Art

January 16 - March 6

Now through July 28, 2024

Technically, we can’t see climate change because climate is an abstraction, a categorical name for what we expect the weather to be. What we can see are natural phenomena related to climate such as tropical forests, desert dunes, and creeping ice sheets. This exhibition invites you to learn to see the effects of climate change in our daily lives by examining natural phenomena in works of art. How might the scene in a 19^th century painting look different today, and how could the scene in a 20^th century photograph look different in the future? Curated with Robert Thorson, Professor of Earth Sciences at UConn.

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