Human Impact examines the pressing issues shaping the natural environment of New England and the broader global landscape. Bringing together nationally and internationally recognized artists – Diane Burko, Adriane Colburn, John Gerrard, Renée Greenlee, Kari Greer, Nicolei Buendia Gupit, Sallie Dean Shatz, and Rebecca McGee Tuck – the exhibition explores our shifting perspectives and evolving connection to the land during a time of profound ecological change and accelerated human development. 

With nature’s lakes, forests, mountains, and oceans as subject and setting, the artists in Human Impact convey personal narratives and critical reflections on our complicated relationship with the environment – one that will shape the lives of future generations. By probing the complex social, political, and economic forces interwoven with our shared ecology, these artists examine questions of responsibility, stewardship, and collective action. Human Impact invites us to consider not only our power to influence the natural world, but how we might reimagine our place within it. 

Listen to BCA's own Curator and Director of Exhibitions, Heather Ferrell, discuss the Human Impact exhibit on the Burlington Electric Department Net Zero Energy Podcast here!

image: Sallie Dean Shatz, Compass Minerals Ogden’s Evaporation Pools, 2024

image: Kari Greer, Thomas Fire, Camino Cielo above Montecito, California, 2017 

image: Nicolei Buendia Gupit, In The Age of Abundant Scarcity, 2023