Performative Reading + Artist Talk Featuring Ruth Wallen
My Stained Hands: The Stickiness of Touch
Thursday, November 13th · 7 PM (EST)
Virtual Session via Zoom Free · RSVP
Hosted by Women Eco Artists Dialog (WEAD) in partnership with The 109 Gallery
Join us for an intimate evening of poetic & creative dialog with Ruth Wallen (www.ruthwallen.net), presented virtually through Zoom and in person at The 109 Gallery in Historic Downtown Chickamauga, GA.
Ruth will share intimate conversations with a girdled tree, whose bark has been circumferentially removed as part of an effort to prevent forest fires. Through these exchanges she will reflect on how to touch and be touched by a tree in the forest, the power of fire, the legacy of settler colonialism, and the ongoing ecological degradation of our times.
Artist's Biography
Ruth Wallen, www.ruthwallen.net, is a multi-media artist and writer whose work is dedicated to encouraging dialogue around ecological and social justice. For over a decade she has been bearing witness with trees dying because of urbanization, globalization, in the form of introduced species, and climate change in all its guises, including drought, bark beetles and fire.
📍 In-Person Experience:
Guests at The 109 Gallery will join the live Zoom session from the gallery space, allowing them to listen, ask questions, and engage directly in the conversation with Ruth and virtual participants. After the talk, the group will share additional poetry and reflections inspired by Ruth's work and our local community voices. Arrive a little before 7pm EST to get settled in. Leah Dalton will begin th evening with a poem, and then the atist talk will begin promptly at 7pm.
💻 Virtual Experience:
Online attendees will join via Zoom for Ruth's full presentation and group discussion, connecting in real time with both Ruth and the in-person audience.
About the Exhibition:
Bodies and Borders: Ecologies of Consent explores care, connection, and multispecies consent through the work of women artists worldwide. Presented by WEAD, the full exhibition is viewable online, with select works featured in person at The 109 Gallery.
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Walk-ins welcome at the gallery.