Get Dirty: Art, Environment, and Community
Steven Badgett, Amy Franceschini & Nance Klehm
Tuesday Jun 17, 7pm
Straddling the worlds of art, education, and activism, these three artists discuss working across boundaries for environmental change. Steven Badgett is a founding member of the SIMPARCH collaborative with Matt Lynch. Their work is an exploration of social aspects in art, architecture, and the environment, and their project, Clean Livin’ (2003–ongoing) is a live-work facility that attempts to be a self-sustaining system in terms of waste and energy use. Amy Franceschini is an artist, educator, and founder of Futurefarmers and Free Soil. Her solo and collaborative work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at venues such as the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and the Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany. Nance Klehm is a radical ecologist, designer, urban forager, teacher, and artist. Her solo and collaborative work focuses on creating participatory social ecologies in response to a direct experience of a place. She has shown and taught in Mexico, Australia, England, Scandinavia, the Caribbean, and the United States—including at UCLA.
Current social and political issues are addressed in this ongoing series of lectures, conversations, performances, and panel discussions. Past programs have featured actress and activist Janeane Garofalo, radio host and author Laura Flanders, author Gore Vidal, former Ambassador to Iraq Joseph C. Wilson IV, hip hop artist Chuck D, comedian Margaret Cho, Bernadette Corporation, Mona Eltahawy, author Elizabeth Kolbert, environmental strategist Laurie David, and others.
All Hammer public programs are free. Tickets are required, and are available at the Billy Wilder Theater Box Office one hour prior to start time. Limit one ticket per person on a first come, first served basis. Members receive priority seating, subject to availability. Reservations not accepted, RSVP's not required.
