{"id":1267,"date":"2023-03-24T05:37:57","date_gmt":"2023-03-24T05:37:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.science.smith.edu\/climatelit\/?page_id=1267"},"modified":"2025-02-28T02:22:36","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T02:22:36","slug":"big-weather","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.science.smith.edu\/climatelit\/big-weather\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Weather"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 1930px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1269 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.science.smith.edu\/climatelit\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/97\/2023\/03\/gallery1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.science.smith.edu\/climatelit\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/97\/2023\/03\/gallery1.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/www.science.smith.edu\/climatelit\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/97\/2023\/03\/gallery1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.science.smith.edu\/climatelit\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/97\/2023\/03\/gallery1-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.science.smith.edu\/climatelit\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/97\/2023\/03\/gallery1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.science.smith.edu\/climatelit\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/97\/2023\/03\/gallery1-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.science.smith.edu\/climatelit\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/97\/2023\/03\/gallery1-624x351.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Big Weather exhibit featuring works by Fiona Foley, Julie Gogh, Nicholas Hovington, Anchor Kolumba, Laurie Nona, Dot Peters and many other Indigenous artists from Australia (National Gallery Victoria, 2021).<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ngv.vic.gov.au\/exhibition\/big-weather\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i style=\"font-size: 1rem\">Big Weather<\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (2021-2022) art exhibit at the National Gallery of Victoria featured a collection of <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">paintings, photographs, films, weavings and sculptures <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">by over fifty Indigenous artists from Australia. This exhibit recognized the significance of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples\u2019 cultural knowledge for deep understanding of natural environments, landscape evolution, weather systems and climate change.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_1270\" style=\"width: 870px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1270\" class=\"wp-image-1270 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.science.smith.edu\/climatelit\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/97\/2023\/03\/gallery2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"860\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.science.smith.edu\/climatelit\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/97\/2023\/03\/gallery2.jpg 860w, https:\/\/www.science.smith.edu\/climatelit\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/97\/2023\/03\/gallery2-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.science.smith.edu\/climatelit\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/97\/2023\/03\/gallery2-768x536.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.science.smith.edu\/climatelit\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/97\/2023\/03\/gallery2-624x435.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 860px) 100vw, 860px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1270\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Big Weather exhibit featuring &#8220;Stolen Climate&#8221; by Clinton Naina (on the left wall), &#8220;We are on fire (not in a sexy way)&#8221; by Karla Dickens (gallery floor), and &#8220;Fire Story for Kulin Nations&#8221; by Donna Blackall (right wall) (National Gallery Victoria, 2021).<\/p><\/div>\n<h2>How is this related to climate?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The works displayed in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Big Weather <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">address climate change by drawing inspiration from the impact of extreme weather- and climate-related events like flooding or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.smith.edu\/climatelit\/history-social-studies\/wildfires-recent\/\" rel=\"noopener\">bushfires in Australia<\/a>:<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;Eye of the Storm&#8221; <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">(2020) by Treahna Hamm (photo below), for example, honors loss of wildlife due to climate change. This art piece depicts a baby kangaroo in its center as a tribute to animals who died in Australia\u2019s bushfires (2019-2020).\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;Stolen Climate&#8221; <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">(2020) by Clinton Naina (photo above) is made with cotton and bleach as reflections of the world history of colonization and slavery and their relation to global industrialization that results in destruction of native lands and fuels modern-day climate change.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_1271\" style=\"width: 635px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1271\" class=\"wp-image-1271 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.science.smith.edu\/climatelit\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/97\/2023\/03\/eye-of-storm-947x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"676\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.science.smith.edu\/climatelit\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/97\/2023\/03\/eye-of-storm-947x1024.jpg 947w, https:\/\/www.science.smith.edu\/climatelit\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/97\/2023\/03\/eye-of-storm-277x300.jpg 277w, https:\/\/www.science.smith.edu\/climatelit\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/97\/2023\/03\/eye-of-storm-768x830.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.science.smith.edu\/climatelit\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/97\/2023\/03\/eye-of-storm-624x675.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.science.smith.edu\/climatelit\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/97\/2023\/03\/eye-of-storm.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1271\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u201cEye of the Storm\u201d (2020) by Treahna Hamm (National Gallery of Victoria, 2021).<\/p><\/div>\n<h2><strong>References and additional resources<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Big Weather, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">NGV<\/span><\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ngv.vic.gov.au\/media_release\/big-weather-3\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/www.ngv.vic.gov.au\/media_release\/big-weather-3\/<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ngv.vic.gov.au\/school_resource\/big-weather\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/www.ngv.vic.gov.au\/school_resource\/big-weather\/<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cBig Weather: Indigenous Artists Reflect on Climate Crisis \u2013 in Pictures.\u201d <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Guardian<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, Guardian News and Media, 14 Apr. 2021, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/gallery\/2021\/apr\/14\/big-weather-indigenous-artists-reflect-on-climate-crisis-in-pictures\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/gallery\/2021\/apr\/14\/big-weather-indigenous-artists-reflect-on-climate-crisis-in-pictures<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cBig Weather Exhibition Introduction.\u201d <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">YouTube<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, 29 June 2021, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TmyQOTIuNTo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TmyQOTIuNTo<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cBig Weather at the Ian Potter Centre.\u201d <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">NGV and Broadsheet,<\/span><\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/amp.broadsheet.com.au\/melbourne\/event\/big-weather\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/amp.broadsheet.com.au\/melbourne\/event\/big-weather<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Presley, H. \u201cBig Weather.\u201d <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">NGV<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, 11 Mar. 2021, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ngv.vic.gov.au\/essay\/big-weather\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/www.ngv.vic.gov.au\/essay\/big-weather\/<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Virtual Tour of the Big Weather Exhibit. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ngv.vic.gov.au\/virtual-tours\/big-weather\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/www.ngv.vic.gov.au\/virtual-tours\/big-weather\/<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>How to cite this page<\/h3>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Big Weather<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. 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