The Slide Show at the Art Farm

• Main Author: Dunaway, Finis
• Format: Book Part
• Language: English
• Published: University of North Carolina Press 2021
• Subjects: Arctic
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469661100.003.0009

Members of the Sonoma Coalition for the Arctic Refuge assembled The Last Great Wilderness show during the final weeks of the 1988 presidential campaign. This election brought George H. W. Bush, an ardent supporter of oil drilling, into the White House. Coalition members met at Kohm’s studio, which was located in a Sonoma bohemian enclave—a former turkey farm known as the Art Farm. This chapter explains how coalition members channeled their artistic impulses into a political movement, applying the principles of do-it-yourself culture to participatory democracy. The chapter considers how they selected photographs, harmonized the pictures with the soundtrack, and used a fade/dissolve unit to create a sense of movement between the images.