People-Nature-Art with Conceptual Photographer Jennifer Steen Booher

Description

Jennifer Steen Booher is an artist and conceptual photographer who lives on Mount Desert Island, where she has been exploring and studying the intertidal zone for over 20 years. She is fascinated by the way science and history intersect within issues like ecosystem dynamics, climate change, and marine debris. As her understanding deepens, she has been experimenting with ways to address the drama and poetry she finds in these specialized fields. Working in multiple media, including still life photography, cyanotype, and drawing, she teases apart the complex interactions underlying biological and cultural consequences of change in the local climate. And although they draw on verified and reliable data, the resulting images are rooted in curiosity and exploration. She never lost that childhood delight in poking around in seaweed on muddy knees, filling her pockets with shells and stones and sticky things, and incessantly asking, “Why?”

Join us at the Wendell Gilley Museum for this free and fabulous monthly event to learn more about Jenn and her art. There will be a 6pm reception followed by a 7pm program that will be simultaneously livecast on Zoom. No charge, but registration is required.

https://www.wendellgilleymuseum.org/reserve/LpnaQ

People-Nature-Artis a free monthly series that brings artists, writers, carvers, and creative types of all kinds to the Gilley to explore how nature and art interact in their work, and how their art impacts their own approach to nature.