An exhibition of visual art and poetry by local emerging artists

May 18 - 28, 2026 at MUN Botanical Garden

with Low Tide Collective (led by Mercy Williams and Christina Wells)

funded by Canadian Red Cross' Youth Resilience Fund

 

Rooted in noticing environmental patterns and paying attention to how they change over time, weatherlore is used to predict atmospheric conditions, growing seasons, and safe travel. In keeping with those knowledge traditions, this exhibition of visual art and poetry explores cultural connections to landscapes and how we understand our place within them. 

 

The artists and poets in this exhibition reflect on these intergenerational, embodied knowledges from their communities across Newfoundland and Labrador, and around the world; from Ontario to the Maritimes, Poland to Iran, Nigeria to New Zealand. Emily Claudette Pittman, Sophie Furlong, and Reza Pourbahreini consider the signs of seasonal shifts, a tree shedding its leaves, a Snowshoe hair moulting its fur to camouflage as Fall melts into Winter, and Winter into Spring. Julie Clapperton, Chloe Lundrigan, and Oscar Jarsky take time to sit with place, noticing the death and renewal, mourning and persistence of plants and animals, in Julie’s words, the “living almanacs of weatherlore.” Madison Farrell’s poems similarly sit with place, giving voice to the grief that blooms and settles in your bones after losing a home to the ravaging effects of climate change. Luca Jesse Apel, Joy Abraham, and Mercy Alberta grapple with a different kind of loss, the sorrow of ancestral, cultural traditions that lose their meanings as seasonal patterns become unfamiliar, as communities lose their languages for loving the Land. In contrast, Maya Marmouche, Kailey Ikkusek-Rogers, Jean-Luc Matte, and Christina Wells explore the joy of rediscovering those languages, rejoicing in the reclamation of ancient knowledges that tie them to the people and places that they love.