“Climate of Change”

Works by Susan Calza and Ken Leslie

The exhibition opens with ArtWalk in Montpelier on December 3, 2021. On view through January 15, 2022*

Susan Calza and Ken Leslie team up for this multi-sensory exhibition. The artists explore the impact and dynamic nature nature of change in terms of both the Earth’s climate and the resilience of the human psyche.

Works of mixed media, video and audio are on view. Included in the exhibition are the artists’ sketchbooks revealing the intimate thought processes of these two mature artists and how they respond to the world around them.

“Most Americans know little about Greenland beyond its enormous, melting ice shelf.  This world's largest island is the size of the US east of the Mississippi, with a population of fewer than 60,000.  Nearly 90% are Inuit, living mostly in villages of a few hundred up to just a few thousand, scattered along islands and fjords along the western coast. I've been fortunate to be their guest many times, in several towns--during their summer's endless midnight-sun days and (even better!) their rich and dark polar nights.”
- Ken Leslie

“blame-less.
It is the second part of a video
project started while a
MASS MoCa artist in 2021.
This new work was created for
the “Climate of Change”
exhibition at the Susan Calza
Gallery. The 14 minute video
”blame-less” explores the beauty
and vulnerability of the natural
environment through human
relationships whether with each
other, the earth or those we share
the planet with. The relationships
in our post industrial world.” - Susan Calza