Saturday, September 27 | 1-3pm
at The Arts Center at Governors Island, Studio A4 (Upper Level)

What do you think your shoreline will look like in the year 2100?
What role will climate change play in shaping that future?

Carolyn Hall and Clarinda Mac Low of Sunk Shore invite you to participate in an interactive workshop where we playfully explore our own specific shorelines and speculate about what that shoreline may look like 75 years from now. In this two hour workshop Hall and Mac Low will lead participants through the Sunk Shore methodology they use to create their shoreline and climate change based artworks which includes: local history, embodied knowledge of place, discussing climate change predictions, participating in fun exercises and imaginings, and building a group vision based on each person’s expectations, fears, and hopes for the future of their shorelines and homes. This workshop is open to participants ages 15 and up.

Sunk Shore is Hall and Mac Low’s approach to making climate change data local, relatable, and tangible so together we can plan for a future that we want to see happen. sunkshore.com

ARTIST BIO
Sunk Shore is a multidisciplinary art action and social engagement created by dancer/marine ecologist Carolyn Hall and multidisciplinary artist/microbiologist Clarinda Mac Low. With Sunk Shore we want to help people feel and relate to climate data so that it becomes personal and visceral. Sunk Shore started out as a physical walking tour into the climate changed future that takes place along specific shorelines and has expanded from there.

The Works on Water 2025 Triennial is a multi-sited exhibition and series of public art interventions made on, in, and with urban bodies of water, created in response to our global climate crisis. Participate in a series of workshops led by Works on Water Triennial artists, inspired by bodies of water and NYC waterways. The Works on Water 2025 Triennial exhibition will be on view in Upper and Lower Galleries of The Arts Center starting August 28 through October 26, open Saturdays and Sundays, 12-6pm.

Works on Water is an experimental organization and triennial exhibition dedicated to artworks, performances, conversations, workshops and site-specific experiences that explore diverse artistic investigation of water in the urban environment. We seek to strengthen and nourish the community of artists working on and with bodies of water and to provide a platform to increase awareness of artists and organizations working on and with the waterways.

Made possible with support from the Cultural Development Fund, Invoking the Pause, exhibiting artists, and Works on Water’s partner organizations.