Artist Rachel Frank will discuss her research, sculptures, and performances as they relate to the environmental practice of Rewilding. Earlier this year, as an artist-in-residence at the Innoko National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska, Frank traveled down the Yukon and Innoko Rivers, gaining rare access to protected areas and visiting indigenous peoples to discuss the 2015 reintroduction of a population of Wood Bison, which marked the first time in over a century this species has lived in the United States. Frank will contextualize her experiences within the broader historical importance of the American Bison and its role in our ecosystem as a keystone species. Her talk will also feature one of her sculpted bison head masks and images related to Rewilding. Rachel Frank uses sculpture, theater, and performance to explore the tensions between the natural world and the man-made, the animal and the political, the past and the present. Her performance pieces have been shown at HERE, Socrates Sculpture Park, The Select Fair, and the Bushwick Starr in New York City, as well as The Marran Theater at Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She lives and works in Brooklyn.
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