Imaging the Climate Crisis. The Ceramic Art of Horie, Galloway, Snider, and Rhymer-Zwierciadlowska

• Published in: E-rea
• Main Author: STEGGLES, Mary Ann
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Laboratoire d’Études et de Recherche sur le Monde Anglophone 2021
• Subjects: céramique; art; urgence climatique; Ayumi Horie; Julia Galloway; Amy Snider; Julianna Zwierciadlowska-Rhymer; environnement; extinction; droit animal; fonte des glaciers; installations; gaspillage; additifs alimentaires; industrie pétrolière; Anthropocène; pollution; plastiques; justice sociale; destruction des habitats naturels; Greta Thunberg; ceramics; social change; climate emergency; The Democratic Cup; environment; animal rights; non-human rights; glacier disintegration; sculpture installations; food waste; food additives; social discourse; mining; equality; oil pipelines; ocean pollution; plastics; social justice; habitat destruction; factory farms; glaciers; socio; Wandering Albatross
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/erea/11940

This contribution focuses on four contemporary ceramists who believe that art can be a vehicle for social change. The climate emergency informs the work of Ayumi Horie, Julia Galloway, Amy Snider, and Julianna Zwierciadlowska-Rhymer. Each desires to create a dialogue with the viewer and to incite positive environmental action. Horie began The Democratic Cup in 2016. She adapted the concept in 2018 to bring people with divergent views of the environment together for civil discussions in four different cities of Minnesota. Galloway was so shocked at the decapitation of the Wandering Albatross and its near extinction that she set about to create classical funerary urns to draw attention to the endangered species of New England. Amy Snider’s objects concern the world’s melting glaciers and the climate crisis that is causing their disintegration. Julianna Zwierciadlowska-Rhymer’s sculptural installations explore society’s relationship with food. She creates banquet tables of beautifully crafted cakes on their delicate pedestal holders to call attention to both the extravagance and waste of living in the twenty-first century as well as the treatment of animals and food additives. Cette contribution aborde la question de l’urgence climatique et environnementale par le biais des arts, plus particulièrement à travers les travaux des quatre céramistes activistes nord-américaines Ayumi Horie, Julia Galloway, Amy Snider et Julianna Zwierciadlowska-Rhymer.