VisionShift! Art in the Age of Climate Change hits Santa Fe
The art of energy flows through many currents, and art without purpose is really nothing more than a Thomas Kinkade painting. But when Santa Fe’s collective environmental consciousness streams forth and blends with its equally progressive art scene, the collaboration becomes a movement; and those first steps ascend this weekend when the city celebrates Vision Shift! Art in the Age of Climate Change.
To call it a festival is a cop-out. Vision Shift! is really more of an awakening amidst a climate of self-righteous zealots who can’t stop barking about deforestation and weeping over melting ice caps as if cartographers were already sketching Arizona Bay. The quest of the Art Collaborative, an organization that spearheads this caravan of organizations and institutions, is to communicate the realities of our current environmental and economic crises through the universal language of art and in the process create an open dialogue for positive change.
To read more about what’s on tap for VisionShift! for the next few weeks, get more descriptions and a full schedule below the jump.
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