Our Collective Ecological Existence Through Art: Hope or Waving Warning Flags Against our Ongoing Slippery Descent?

This stunning painting which was previously in a Nevada Museum of Art 2019 exhibit called The Art of Jack Malotte was included in a New York Times article this week called “In the Fastest-Warming City in the U.S., These Artists See Hope”

Malotte, a Wooster grad, who was born in Schurz, before moving to the Reno-Sparks Indian Colony has parents both descended from the Te-Moak Band of Western Shoshone from South Fork, Nevada, with his mother also part Washoe.

The article looks at the current “Into the Time Horizon” exhibit running until January 3rd 2027 which we’ve previously showcased on our channels.

“This exhibition, which occupies every gallery of the Museum, invites visitors to consider how to move forward on our planet—ethically, responsibly, and with care for coming generations. It strives to catalyze and amplify protection for the Earth and build an awareness around environmental concerns on many different levels. In the process, it promotes forward-thinking models rooted in collectivity, engagement, and collaboration,” the Nevada Museum of Art explains on its own website.

The painting below from 1983 called Mother Earth Is Not For Sale, seemingly with what should be on the left, and what is on the right, shows how many times artists are years, decades, and sometimes eternally ahead of others in terms of waving flags.

The New York Times article starts out with a description of the Tahoe Reno Industrial Center, describing Reno as a growing tech hub, contrasting the area’s long history of extraction with its beautiful and fragile surrounding ecology.

As evidenced by photos we recently posted of wild horses caught in the middle of new TRIC construction, we see more of a testimony of an ongoing, slippery descent, and trying to wake people up through beautiful art, sadly, than any type of hope.

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