Amplify Action: Panel Discussion - learn more about our moderator and participating artists!

Next Thursday, March 29^th will mark the first event of the Amplify Action exhibition – a Panel Discussion on themes of art and community sustainability. We’re excited to announce our moderator, Pratt Professor Ann Holder, and our participating artists, Mary Mattingly, Kristyna Milde, and Simonetta Moro. Find out more about our panelists by reading their bios, exploring their artwork, and viewing samples of their exhibition pieces, below. This is going to be a fantastic event, and we invite you to join these creative, innovative voices in a discussion on art, sustainability and social change this Thursday.

Amplify Action Panel Discussion
Thursday, March 29, 2012 | 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
Pratt Institute Brooklyn Campus
Myrtle Hall | 200 Willoughby Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11205
2nd Floor East Lecture Room | 2E.3
Free - RSVP here.

Dr. Ann Holder, an Associate Professor of History, Social Science & Cultural Studies at Pratt Institute, specializes in American social and cultural history, women’s history, African-American history, and sexuality and gender studies. She is a Fellow at Harvard’s W.E.B. DuBois Center and is currently studying citizenship in the post-Bellum South.

Mary Mattingly is a New York City-based artist who creates “autonomous living/traveling systems” and wearable environments, in an exploration of environment, autonomy, and interdependence. She is currently an artist in residence at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and at New York University. Her piece featured in Amplify Action is entitled “Flock House”, a series of photographs that chronicle a migratory, public space constructed of recycled and reprocessed vehicles that has been choreographed in various locations throughout the city. “Flockhouse” explores patterns of human migration and movement in metropolitan life.

Flock House | 2011| Photograph | 16 x 20

Kristyna Milde, born in Prague, Czech Republic currently lives in Brooklyn, New York. Her work deconstructs cultural meaning to question traditional boundaries between archetypes and stereotypes. She employs a variety of media including photography, sculpture, and installation. Her interdisciplinary work has been exhibited in galleries across the globe over the past decade. Her exhibition piece for Amplify Action is titled “In-Tree-Net” and is a site-specific installation of tree trunks and branches wall-mounted with electric hardware. Resembling a system of pipes and wires, the piece explores the interconnection between our ecosystems and the machine and investigates the influence of architecture on our relationship with Nature.

Kristyna and Marek Milde | In-Tree-Net | 2011 | Gallery Califia
Site-specific installation, tree branches, plumbing hardware

Simonetta Moro works with painting, drawing and installation. Her practice focuses on map-making, psychogeography, and teaching. She lives and works in New York City and is a faculty at Eugene Lang College, The New School for Liberal Arts. Her exhibition piece, "Signs of Growth/Mobile Gardens Map", is the product of a collaboration with Eve Mosher, Tattfoo Tan and students of Eugene Land College and The New School for Liberal Arts. It consists of photographs of a 2009 site-specific installation and performance piece that marked sites with potential to support locally grown food and paraded Tattfoo Tan's Mobile Gardens along 14th Street to disseminate information on local urban agriculture.