The State We’re In Water
The State We’re In Water:Constructing a Sense of Place in the Hydrosphere August 11, 2020 - May 29, 2021
The State We're In Wateris an interdisciplinary project that includes an arts-based research residency and multiple exhibitions. The exhibition features five installation works by Marguerite Perret, Robin Lasser, and exhibition designer Bruce Scherting, and scientists in water, environmental science, unmanned Systems Research, plant biology, and more. Through sensory-rich video, sculptured forms, and visually complex constructions, the exhibition explores wastewater recycling; watershed habitats; the imprint of water movement on the land. Symptomatic of global issues, the local situations presented will engage University, local, and regional communities of all ages in the inviting, immersive experiences the installations offer. The goal of the overall project is to activate visitors' sense of place and social involvement and to present art as a powerful learning platform for science.
Postcards from the Hydrosphere
Community Art Project
What is your relationship with water? Take a look at the many postcards sent to the museum that explore individuals experiences with water.
In the Spotlight
OETA Gallery America features The State We're In Water
OETA Gallery America features The State We're In Water
Learn more about OETA Gallery America.
Voices from the Hydrosphere
Hear from the exhibition artists, a water treatment expert, and environmental law expert on the research and partnerships that developed from The State We're In: Water.
Voices From the Hydrosphere with Lou Ann FisherVoices from the Hydrosphere with Jason Aamodt
Voices from the Hydrosphere with Marguerite Perret and Robin Lasser
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Press & Publications
Book |The Weather Report | Mother and Daughter
Book | Signaling Water
Stillwater Living |Experience the #MuseumFromHome
Stillwater NewsPress | OSU Museum of Art receives $50,000 CARES Act grant ...
Stillwater NewsPress | OSU Museum of Art exhibit mixes art and science
OSU | OSU Museum of Art features an interdisciplinary experience in arts and science
OSU | OSU Museum of Art dives deep with water lecture series
ART FOCUS | THE STATE WE’RE IN WATER: Constructing a Sense of Place in the Hydrosphere
OSU Research Matters | Absorbing Science Via Art
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Resources
Flyer |The State We're In Water
Flyer |Voices From the Hydrosphere
Flyer |Voices Spring Flyer
Press Kit |Images, Press Release & Artist Information
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Events
Second Saturday |August 8, 2020 - Watercolor Postcards
Second Saturday | September 12, 2020 - Create a flag
Voices from the Hydrosphere | September 24, 2020 - Jason Aamodt
Voices from the Hydrosphere | October 15, 2020 - Marguerite Perret and Robin Lasser
Voices from the Hydrosphere | November 5, 2020 - Lou Ann Fisher
Second Saturday | November 14, 2020 - Pokey the Piranha Needs a Friend
Second Saturday | February 20, 2021 - Make a Kaleidoscope
Voices Lecture | March 9, 2021 - Marguerite Perret and Robin Lasser
Second Saturday | March 13, 2021 - Self-watering Planter
Voices Lecture | March 30, 2021 - Bruce Scherting and Paolo Sanza
Second Saturday | April 10, 2021 - Cyanotypes
Voices Lecture | April 20, 2021 - Dr. Ali Mirchi and Dr. Marley Beem
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Credits
Signaling Water: Multi-Species Migration and Displacement is phase 2 of a 3 phase interdisciplinary arts-based research project, contributing to the full exhibition The State We're In Water: Constructing a Sense of Place in the Hydrosphere. The exhibition offers many opportunities for all to engage in workshops and experiences connecting art and science.
This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts and by the OSU Museum of Art Advocates. The National Endowment for the Arts also granted funding to the OSU Museum of Art through the CARES Act, supporting the expansion of programming for The State We're in Water.
Partnerships + Participants:
The Prairie Arts Center, Stillwater
Students and Faculty in the OSU Environmental Sciences Graduate Program (Dr. Scott Stoodley, Director)
Students and Faculty in the OSU Unmanned Systems Research Institute (Dr. Jamey Jacobs, Director)
Students and Faculty in the OSU School of Architecture (Faculty mentor & collaboration coordinator, Paolo Sanza)
The Office of the OSU Vice President of Research (Dr. Kenneth Sewell, VP)
OSU Center for Sovereign Nations
Oklahoma Water Resource Center
OSU Integrated Biology
OSU Allied Arts
Freshmen in Transition in the OSU Ferguson College of Agriculture
OSU Department of Art, Graphic Design, and Art History
OSU Edmon Low Library Science Cafe
OSU Science Education
OSU Environmental Engineering
OSU Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture Department of Natural Resource Ecology and Management
The Lake McMurtry Foundation (Jill van Egmond, Executive Director)
Sara Hill, Cherokee Nation, Attorney General, Formerly Secretary of Natural Resources
City of Stillwater, Oklahoma
Lou Ann Fisher, Former Superintendent, Wastewater Treatment, City of Stillwater currently, Compliance Coordinator for The City of Stillwater, Water Utilities
Jason Tyler, Superintendent, Wastewater Treatment
Kelly Kerr, Student Media Coordinator, OSU School of Media and Strategic Communications
Adam Johnson, Source Water Protection Manager, City of Tulsa
Jason Aamodt, Attorney, Environmental & Social Justice, professor, University of Tulsa, College of Law
Ashley Nealis, Regional Supervisor, Fish Division Kaw Lake, Ponca City, Oklahoma
Oka’ Yanahli Preserve: Nature Conservancy (Blue River), Stillwell
The McGregor Herbarium at the University of Kansas Biodiversity Institute
Great Salt Plains Lake
Lake Carl Blackwell
The Weather Report Contributors: Phyllis Lasser, Patrick Lydon, Suhee Kang, Takuma Usematsu, Masahiro Kawanaka
Image Gallery
