Women in the North Country Series ft. Blake Lavia

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Women in the North Country Series feat. Blake Lavia
​Join SLC Arts as they celebrate women in the North Country! Listen to stories from residents of the North Country and learn about living and thriving up north.

Multimedia artist and community organizer Blake Lavia will speak in a series that complements the collaborative installation at SLC Arts, “The Dinner Party: Judy Chicago Reimagined,” to further enhance the project's impact.

About Blake:
Blake Lavia is a multimedia artist and community organizer. Their art practice dances between writing, video, photography, sculpture, animation and mixed media illustration. Through their art they share the voice of ecosystems and question structures of power. Blake is an advocate for change, and they imbue their art and writing with calls for action. Their art and short films have been exhibited in venues such as the The Wild Center, the Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, the Western Massachusetts Biennial, the New York K&P Gallery, and The ROAR.

Through their work with the environmental storytelling collective Talking Wings, Blake has produced documentary films, written and illustrated eco-centric stories, and curated the exhibitions  “Water and Origin,” “Listening to Water,” and “Memory Flow/ Water of Boston.” Blake is also one of the funders of Talking Rivers, Inc., an organization that is dedicated to educating communities about the Rights of Rivers and their ecosystems. Under Talking Rivers, Blake has co-curated conferences such as the “We Are All In This Together Symposium,” and events such as “We LOVE Raquette River.”

Blake is also writing and illustrating a series of speculative fiction novels. The first novel is titled “Panoptic Snow.” The novels grapple with how individuals stuck within systems of corporate power can liberate themselves and others, heal and build a new society.