Earth, Air, Fire, Water: A climate week art exhibition at the Mills Building

About this episode

The episode features a discussion about a climate-themed art exhibition at the Mills Building in San Francisco.

For the past couple of years KALW has had a second home at the Mills Building on Montgomery Street in Downtown San Francisco. Besides making great radio here, and training new journalists, we host lots of live events for listeners… like you! Recently one of those events brought guests deeper into the building… to a curated installation inside the halls of the Mills Building: Earth, Air, Fire, Water. It's a multimedia exhibition featuring Bay Area artists that focus on climate change and elemental forces, and invites viewers to consider climate change as an ongoing condition embedded in everyday life. The evening was hosted by KALW’s Ben Trefny in partnership with the Swig company. In this excerpt we hear from the curator of this exhibit, Carey Hurtado, and artists Tanya Geis and Andrew Owen. First, Ben asks Carey - what’s the exhibit all about?

People in this episode

Host: Ben Trefny

Guests: Carey Hurtado, Tanya Geis, Andrew Owen

Topics covered

• climate change
• art exhibition
• multimedia
• Bay Area artists
• elemental forces
• live events

Keywords

• climate change
• art exhibition
• Mills Building
• Bay Area artists
• multimedia installation

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: KALW

Places: Mills Building, San Francisco

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