Imagine a Day Without Water
A panel discussion on the many facets and dimensions of water as the source of all life.
This event is part of the US Water Alliance’s Imagine a Day Without Water, and the opening of well · ness at The Commonwealth, Sweet Water Foundation’s inaugural art exhibition in the Thought Barn.
The event features panelists Emmanuel Pratt, Sweet Water Foundation Executive Director; Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle, Toward Common Cause exhibiting artist; Debra Shore, Commissioners of the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago; and Amy Stelly, artist, designer, urban planner, and SWF Human in Residence.
Presented by Sweet Water Foundation in partnership with the Smart Museum of Art. The event’s livestream and recording are produced by Public Media Institute.
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If art for me is a platform from which to speak, but not tell you something, that’s good. If that’s a way I give you a platform from which to think and debate, that’s even better. Ultimately, art for me does not reside in the object: it resides in what is said about the object. All of my work, even the most formal work, has an underlying politics to it, but I don’t want to reveal my position.