<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><span style="color:rgb(61,133,198);font-size:large;font-weight:bold;font-family:Roboto">Climate's Shipwreck Ballad</span><span style="color:rgb(61,133,198);font-size:large;font-family:Roboto"><b> </b></span><br><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:15.6933px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><font color="#3d85c6" size="4"><span style="font-family:Roboto">by Robin Lasser<br><b>& Transmutation Traces </b><br>by Marguerite Perret</span></font><span style="font-size:12pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:15.6933px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b style="color:rgb(11,83,148);font-size:11pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Roboto"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Open through December 6, 2024</span></span></b><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:15.6933px"><font color="#0b5394"><span style="font-family:Roboto;font-size:12pt">Burke & Slatkin Galleries, Myers Building<br><br></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:15.6933px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(7,55,99);font-size:12pt;letter-spacing:-0.1pt">Shipwrecks may serve as an iconic metaphor for the current state of our earth. There are 300 wrecks below the waters of Plattsburgh’s Lake Champlain, as well as 300 species of birds, flying above, utilizing the lake as habitat. Lake Champlain’s shipwreck burial ground serves as a timeline, a mariner archive of the industrial revolution to the present demarcating the era responsible for the climate crisis profoundly affecting our shared global commons, water. </span><span style="color:rgb(7,55,99);font-size:12pt;letter-spacing:-0.1pt;background:rgb(250,250,250)">This exhibition features room-size immersive video projections, musical compositions, a series of large-scale photographs and sculpture that are all inspired by faculty research occurring in the Lake Champlain Research Institute and The SUNY Plattsburgh Center for Earth & Environmental Sciences. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;line-height:15.6933px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;letter-spacing:-0.1pt"><font color="#073763"><span style="background:rgb(250,250,250)">The Plattsburgh State Art Museum is grateful for the collaborative efforts of the following faculty who have contributed tremendously to the success of the exhibit: Aude Lochet, Timothy Mihuc, <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Danielle Garneau, </span>Michael Burgess, Dexter Criss, Norman Taber, </span></font></span><span style="background-color:rgb(250,250,250);color:rgb(7,55,99);font-size:16px;letter-spacing:-0.133333px">Julia Devine and Erika Guay. We are also grateful for community contributors: Dave Fadden,<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"> Christina Holland,</span> Jacqueline Madison and Chris Rosenquest.</span></p><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><img src="cid:ii_m330mgja0" alt="PSAM2024FL_ShipwreckTracesWEB.png" width="326" height="504"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><div style="font-family:"Google Sans",Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;clear:both;margin:0px;padding:16px 0px;border-top:none"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-weight:700;text-transform:uppercase">IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, PLEASE CONTACT PSAM OFFICE AT 518-564-2474 </span></div><div style="font-family:"Google Sans",Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;clear:both;margin:0px;padding:16px 0px;border-top:none"><span style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;text-transform:uppercase;font-size:small">OR EMAIL </span><a href="mailto:artmuseum@plattsburgh.edu" target="_blank" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-weight:700;text-transform:uppercase;font-size:small">ARTMUSEUM@PLATTSBURGH.EDU</a></div><div style="font-family:"Google Sans",Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;clear:both;margin:0px;padding:16px 0px;border-top:none"><b style="font-size:small;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(255,0,0)"><u><a href="http://plattsburgh.edu/plattslife/arts/art-museum/" target="_blank">plattsburgh.edu/plattslife/arts/art-museum/</a></u></b></div></div></div>