Art in America Review: “Displacement” Exhibition in Boston Highlights People and Cultures Uprooted by Climate Change

Detail of Sandra M. Sawatzky’s Black Gold Tapestry, 2008-2017. Courtesy the artist

MassArt in the Media
MassArt Art Museum

“Currently on view at the MassArt Art Museum in Boston, [‘Black Gold Tapestry’] the nearly 220-foot tapestry insists on a much longer timeline—both in its production and in the history it tells. The work focuses on humans’ relationship to oil over the course of millennia, and is part of an exhibition, titled “Displacement,” that addresses the human consequences of environmental change, including the forced migration so many people experience in the wake of either immediate disaster or slowly shifting climates.”

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