Great Stair Hall
Main Building
Take a “detour” through the European and American galleries with artist and public historian Aislinn Pentecost-Farren to examine the origins of the climate crisis through the arts and culture of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This detour is being co-organized by the Eco-Social Salon, an ongoing series in Philadelphia about ecological art.
About the speaker:
Aislinn Pentecost-Farren is an artist, curator, and public historian. Her current work sites the climate crisis in objects from the origins of the catastrophe. She takes artifacts, collections, buildings, and landscapes as the starting point for interpretation, sculpture, ceramics, publications, and public interventions.
Over the past 10 years, Aislinn has led dozens of interdisciplinary projects that convene communities and publics to create collaborative, site-specific projects at historic places and green spaces. She creates public projects and gallery interventions that facilitate criticality and accessibility at sites of historical and cultural authority. Both through her studio practice and through projects with public heritage organizations, her work brings current environmental realities into conversation with art, culture, and history. Aislinn has an MFA and a Masters of Science in Historic Preservation from the University of Pennsylvania, and a BA in Anthropology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.