An Interactive Art Installation by Interdisciplinary Artist Jane D. Marsching
Jane D. Marsching will create a banner in honor of Earth Day as part of her ongoing
Utopia Press (2020-) project. Taking the form of a mobile letterpress studio designed for collective use with a large scale wooden alphabet in a font designed by Marsching, visitors are invited to participate and collectively choose or author a phrase to be collectively printed and hung on in the front garden of the Goethe-Institut Boston. The banners are printed with tree ink made from materials foraged from the local environment: in this case, from trees and street dust from the Fens area. All are welcome to join in the process to take place outside in front of our back bay brownstone!
Photo by Rebecca Uchill
Interdisciplinary artist,
Jane D. Marsching explores our past, present and future human impact on the environment through collaborative research-based practices. Projects have been sited in museums and galleries as well as weather observatories, public parks, city streets, radio waves, and the internet. She has worked with scientists, educators, kite builders, meteorologists, architects, and musicians, among others. Recent exhibitions include: Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Ketchum, Idaho; University of Massachusetts, Boston; Northern Spark, Minneapolis, MN; Kilroy Metal Ceiling, Brooklyn; Galerie Lucy Mackintosh, Lausanne, Switzerland; Tierra des Explorades, Buenos Aires; and MassMoCA. She has received grants from Creative Capital and Artadia, among others. She coedited a book of essays by 12 authors entitled
Far Field: Digital Culture, Climate Change, and the Poles, with Andrea Polli, published in 2012 by Intellect. She is a cofounder and member of Platform2: Art and Activism (2009-2012), an experimental forum about creative practices at the intersection of social issues. Currently she and Andi Sutton are working together with many others as part of the collective Plotform on projects that activate engagement in our local communities around climate activism, citizen science, and water ecologies. At Massachusetts College of Art and Design she is Professor and Sustainability Fellow and tries to teach in as many different departments as possible.
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