ARK/\HIVE

March 9 – May 18, 2018

Opening Reception Thursday, March 8 | 6 – 8 pm
Artist-led tour at 7 pm

An exhibit that looks at preserving and examining nature via ark, zoo, library, archive and collection. In other words: enclosures for sampling the natural world, to be looked at, categorized, examined, admired or protected.

Bayla Arietta, Marion Belanger, Alexis Brown, Helen Cantrell, Leah Caroline, Jeremiah Dine, Lys Guillorn, Stephen Grossman, Gabriella Radujko, Mark R. Smith, Joseph Smolinski, Sarah Stengle & Eva Mantell, Judi Harvest, Allard van Hoorn, Hanna von Goeler, and Adam Waimon with specimens from the historic collection of the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station & poems by John Hollander & Susan Donnelly.

Recorded poems featured in the exhibit:

John Hollander reads Adam’s Task Audio Player

Susan Donnelly reads Eve Names the Animals Audio Player

Curated by Martha Willette Lewis

This event is free and open to the public; we do want to remind people who’ve never been here before that the Institute Library can only be reached by walking up a flight of stairs, and the Library is not ADA-compliant.