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Catalina Island Museum Presents Reflecting on Tipping Point
08.25.20
Catalina Island Museum continues to bring art and culture to the community through virtual programming. In alignment with its ongoing Tipping Point sculpture exhibition exploring the concept of “extinction,” the museum will host acclaimed sculpture artist and MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship Awardee Elizabeth Turk in a conversation with Executive Director Julie Perlin Lee for “Reflecting on Tipping Point” on Thursday, August 27, via Zoom at 7 p.m. Admission is free with registration online at catalinamuseum.org/calendar.
Inspired by a changing natural world, Turk’s art elicits conversation and deep emotion surrounding ideas of extinction. Bird songs, archived by the Macaulay Library at Cornell University, create the foundation for Tipping Point, an outdoor sculpture installation at the museum. The exhibition gives three-dimensional form to extinct and endangered bird, whale and dolphin sounds, many of which have ties to California’s Channel Islands.
One year ago this summer, the Catalina Island Museum presented the official opening of Tipping Point. Turk’s work was only a portion of the event where attendees participated in an experience honoring loss and the loneliness of being the last. Yet, they did this, together. With many of California’s Channel Island birds on the cusp of extinction, Turk titled her work Tipping Point to highlight the danger to us all but also to show that there is hope. That we have an opportunity to make a difference. She asked all attendees to wear white to represent “ghosts” and ended the night in darkness to represent extinction.
Join the museum for a virtual event as it gathers again to reflect upon what was created together at Tipping Point and what extinction means in today’s environment. Lee will speak with Elizabeth Turk (Artist), Erik Thienes (Lead Photographer), Lara Wilson (Choreographer), dancers from The Assembly Dance Company and others to reveal their process and thoughts, then and now.
Like the first Tipping Point gathering, this event will also feature an interactive element. Participants are encouraged to watch from a dark room in their home and using a candle or flashlight, they will be given certain directives to follow which will end in darkness once again.
Check out the virtual tour and behind-the-scenes making of Tipping Point on IGTV.
Admission is free with a suggested donation of $20 online at catalinamuseum.org/calendar. The first 60 guests to donate $20 or more will receive a Tipping Point CD created with the music composed and performed by Michael Mortilla along with Nicole Garcia from last summer's live event. A dedicated Zoom link and instructions to join the event will be sent to registered participants a couple of days prior to the event.
To help keep the art and culture of the iconic Santa Catalina Island alive, please support the museum by texting “Magic” to 50155 or visiting catalinamuseum.org/donate.
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Roseland y Mar: A Sustainably-Conscious Pop-Up at The OC Mix
08.24.20
Come say hello to Roseland y Mar – a new pop-up boutique at The OC Mix that’s open now through September 15. Carrying sustainably conscious clothing, accessories, and self-care items, all clothing pieces are created to “grow and change with the individual over time” (and they offer a unique ‘buy-back” option to help keep clothing out of landfills!)
Roseland y Mar (RyM) was born from a founder with a passion for sharing designers’ unique stories while helping consumers make more socially conscious buying and clothing care decisions.
The result is a collective of sustainable and durable fashion and wellness essentials that support the slow fashion movement. RyM uses interactive and eye-catching visuals in its retail store to educate the public on the role of clothing and fashion in sustainability (currently, there is a visual in front of the store that shows you what 81 lbs. of clothing looks like – the average amount per person that’s sent to landfills each year.) To further aid the slow fashion movement, Roseland y Mar is developing a Care Society to teach and inspire clothing care and longevity.
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