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Reimagining Progress: Production, consumption, and alternative economies
We face an urgent problem: our current consumption patterns outstrip our planet’s available resources, and yet our society continues to…
Learn MoreThe Lexicon of Sustainability: Information Artworks by Douglas Gayeton
Can we meet our country’s growing agricultural demands in a way that honors our earth? The David Brower Center explores…
Learn MorePetrochemical America: Richard Misrach and Kate Orff
Every autumn, the Brower Center presents the Art/Act Exhibition, an award presented to an artist who has demonstrated extraordinary achievement at the…
Learn MoreAlmost Together
We live in a digital age, in which video chatting with someone in another country is often easier than visiting…
Learn MorePromise and Peril: A Study in Biodiversity
The natural world is in a state of constant flux. It seems that more and more often, we hear about…
Learn MoreBefore California: Laura Cunningham
The David Brower Center believes that art has unique transformative power, especially when placed in the service of activism. As…
Learn MoreThinking Like A River: Art, Advocacy, and the Legacy of David Brower
Environmentalist, mountaineer and visionary David R. Brower changed the way our society thinks about natural places and, consequently, changed the…
Learn MoreLand, Use: Works by Amy Franceschini and Fernando García-Dory
Amy Franceschini and Fernando Garcia-Dory share artistic interests and approaches. Using social practice methods such as direct engagement with communities,…
Learn MoreOne Cubic Foot: Miniature Surveys in Biodiversity, Photographs by David Liittschwager
How much life grows or passes, on land or sea, through one cubic foot of space? To find out, and…
Learn MoreHello Tomorrow: Bay Area Artists Envision the Future
The Brower Center asked Bay Area artists to respond to David Brower’s quote: “Have a good time saving the world.…
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