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Artist Aurora Robson, whose new site-specific installation, “Human Nature Walk,” is on view at the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center (BMAC) through Feb. 11, 2024, creates art to bring about a circular economy and remove plastic debris from the waste stream.
For more than 20 years, Robson has been radically reframing the potential of plastic debris, creating otherworldly sculptures and installations - “transforming trash into beauty,” as BMAC Director Danny Lichtenfeld puts it - and supporting other artists in their efforts to do the same.
“Every minute, the equivalent of one garbage truck of plastic is dumped into the ocean,” states the Plastic Pollution page of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). “Approximately 7.7 billion of the 10 billion tons of plastic produced from 1950 to 2017 became plastic waste, ending up in landfills or dumped.” And the situation has only worsened since then. “Plastic pollution alters habitats and natural processes, reduces ecosystems' ability to adapt to climate change, directly affects millions of people's livelihoods, food production capabilities, and social well-being.”
UNEP Executive Director Inger Andersen has said, “We will not recycle our way out of the plastic pollution crisis. We need a systemic transformation to achieve the transition to a circular economy” - that is, an economic system based on the reuse of materials and the reduction of waste.”...
The Brattleboro Museum & Art Center (BMAC) will present its inaugural Award for Service to Art & Humanity to artist Aurora Robson at the museum's annual gala on Saturday, Aug. 19, beginning at 6 p.m. "BMAC believes in the power of art and artists to imagine new possibilities, to...
"Trash is trash - smelly, gross, harmful to the land and plants and animals," say Brattleboro Museum & Art Center (BMAC) organizers. But re-purpose trash and transform it into art, and not only are destructive materials removed from the environment, but the potential is also created to make a...
Aurora Robson, whose innovative works made of plastic debris are currently on view at the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center (BMAC) in the exhibit "Human Nature Walk," discusses her artmaking career on Saturday, Nov. 18, at 7 p.m. The recipient of BMAC's inaugural Award for Service to Art & Humanity, Robson has spent more than 20 years creating work with the aim of inspiring people to view plastic waste not only as a burden on the planet, but also as...
