OLD TAR MEANS QUALITY , SAID THE ARTIST TO THE BOSUN,I PAINT WITH PLASTIC SCUM THAT FLOATS UPON THE OCEAN

Hey Extractionistas, Extraction: Art on the Edge of the Abyss is a multimedia, multi-venue, cross-border art movement seeking to provoke change by exposing and interrogating the negative social and environmental consequences of extractive industry in its many forms...  As Groundwork Director Veronica Sekules writes,  "On-going throughout the summer are artistic projects which highlight the incredible strains on the environment caused by extraction. The practice of taking resources out of the earth has become one of the biggest problems of the modern world.   Everything we live in, walk on and touch daily is somehow extracted from the earth.   Robert Frost's poem Fire and Ice aptly articulates the focus of the exhibition at Connecticut College: nature's fragility in the face of untamed capitalist growth and the climate crisis,"   co-curator Barbara Zabel notes.   "... the overriding emotion is anger; anger toward petro-capitalist influence, social and economic injustice, and human obtuseness." EXTRACTION ART BOZEMAN Next, we have a few updates from the Bozeman, MT, hub of the Extraction Art ruckus. Several exhibitions are currently on view, or will be opening over the next few months.