GreenHill Center for North Carolina Art unveils H2O, an ambitious, multi-media exhibition that highlights novel approaches to environmental stewardship. Works feature large-scale, site-specific installations, documentary photography, and environmental art collaboration.
ARTIST TALK | CAROLINE ARMIJO
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23, 2022 | 5:30 – 6:30 PM
Join us in the gallery for an artist talk with H2O artist Caroline Armijo. Armijo is creating an immersive, site-specific installation for H2O composed of large hexagonal columns suspended from the ceiling and pavement stones made from encapsulated coal ash developed in partnership with the North Carolina A & T Center for Composite Materials. Interviews, photographs, and objects belonging to residents of Walnut Cove, North Carolina tell the stories of living in proximity to coal ash. Armijo is a mixed media artist who in 2017 was awarded an Art Place America, National Creative Place making grant.
H2O FAMILY ARTMAKING IN LEBAUER PARK
APRIL 5 - JUNE 20 | TUESDAYS | 1:00 – 2:00 PM
Join us in the LaBauer Park for water inspired art activities for kids and families.
ARTIST TALK | BRYANT HOLSENBECK & WILL WARASILA
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13, 2022 | 5:30 – 6:30 PM
Join us in the gallery for artist talkSs with H2O artists Bryant Holsenbeck and Will Warasila.
Holsenbeck is installing a mammoth, public water bottle “waterfall” to document the waste stream of our society. An environmental artist who specializes in large- and small-scale sculptures. Holsenbeck is also designing a meandering stream from ocean plastic forH2O.Her book The Last Straw: A Continuing Quest for Life Without Disposable Plastic, is the subject of a UNC-TV documentary.
Warasila is showing works from his thesis exhibition, “Quicker than Coal Ash,” soon to be published as a book. Warasila is a photographer who recently graduated from the MFA program of Duke Center for Documentary Studies. His images tell the story of the Stokes County community living next to Belews Lake and the steam station. Also on exhibit is a selection of photographs from his newest series on the Texas fossil fuel industry.
#H2O JURIED VIRTUAL STUDENT EXHIBITION
JUNE 1 - 25, 2022
We invite middle and high school students to submit artistic interpretations of water for #H2O, a statewide online exhibition.
OPEN NC ART REVIEW
SATURDAY, MAY 21, 2022 | 10:00 – 12:00 PM
North Carolina artists present their work in pecha kucha format for critique by Edie Carpenter, Director of Artistic and Curatorial Programs, invited curators and artist colleagues. Sign up online at greenhillnc.org/open-nc-art-review1.
ARTIST TALK | BARBARA TYROLER
WEDNESDAY, MAY 25, 2022 | 5:30 – 6:30 PM
Join us in the gallery for an artist talk with H2O artist Barbara Tyroler. Tyroler is a photographic image-maker producing collaborative multi-media art projects that address social and cultural issues. As an educator, she blends fine art and humanitarian work, which is central to her art practice. Her work explores how the lens inspires the journey, how the photographic image evokes stories and memories beyond the frame.
ARTIST TALK | KEVIN PALME
SATURDAY, JUNE 25, 2022 | 5:30 – 7:00 PM
Join us in the gallery for an artist talk with H2O artist Kevin Palme. Palme is producing a large-scale, site-specific floor drawing using salt crystals. The ephemeral work will emphasize the malleability and impermanence of water. Palme will disassemble the drawing at the exhibition’s closing reception. Palme earned a BA in studio art from Wake Forest University and an MFA in Painting from Savannah College of Art and Design. His well-known paintings of ice cubes are “meditations on water, something precious and necessary for life that we may take for granted”.
CLOSING RECEPTION
SATURDAY, JUNE 25, 2022 | 6:00 – 8:00 PM
Join us in the gallery for live music by Chapel Hill band Red Nucleus.
Sponsored by Unifi and REPREVE®
H2O exhibition partnerships include Greensboro’s Water Resources Department and the PNG Foundation in support of Eco-Art Education; H2O recycling initiatives with Unifi Corp., Greensboro Day School and the Rotary Club of Greensboro; funding from Kess and Boon Thongtheum and the Greensboro Airport Rotary Foundation; and generous in-kind services from Jim Gallucci Sculptor, Ltd, PDM, and Printery.