Manship Artists Residency is proud to partner with the Cape Ann Climate Coalition in bringing awareness and encouraging action to mitigate the effects of sea level rise and other environmental concerns our community faces as a result of climate change. Since Manship Artists Residency’s founding in 2015 as an international, interdisciplinary artists residency, we have embraced the latter goal by providing time, space, and community interactions for several artists and thought leaders whose creative practice and public work address climate change and the impacts of human activity.
As someone who will ultimately bear the brunt of older generations’ actions and inactions, Wolfe, Manship Artists Residency’s 2022-23 college intern who is pictured below, contributed in significant ways to our work, most especially by designing an Electrify Everything (EE) logo that we are now using to promote CACC’s EE campaign.
“This logo was inspired by classic depictions of puttis that protected the Gods’ realm. The planet is in a state of decay, and the lightning bolt represents clean energy, reinvigorating people to care about our delicate universe. The child is our future, those who will have the responsibility to care for our world and clean up the chaos older generations have created.
The Electrify Everything campaign is especially important to centralize our message and collaborate with the community. Without everyone’s support nothing will change.” – Wolfe
Wolfe is a senior at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago with a focus on painting. They use recycled burlap coffee sacks, tablecloths, and repurposed house paint to depict large-scale abstract bodily works that connect our fragile humanity to the space we occupy. Wolfe often works outside, suspending their paintings between trees, embedding organic elements with the man made.
