Critical Messages: Contemporary Northwest Artists on the Environment March 31, 2011

This exhibition focuses on the ways in which a group of Northwest artists are currently responding to the heightened awareness of global issues and specific environmental concerns in the Northwest region. Through their artwork these artists are discussing eight specific environmental issues: growth management, waste management -- land and sea, mass production/consumption, transportation, preservation of wilderness and wetlands, biodiversity, climate change and energy which have been identified by top environmentalists as primary concerns.