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Actions for the Earth: An ICI Collaboration Story

Learn how ICI traveling exhibitions create opportunities for collaboration among hosting art spaces, curators, artists, and communities, through the story of the presentation of Actions for the Earth at the Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University. 

Featuring (in order of appearance):

  • Sharmila Wood, Curator, Actions for the Earth
  • Becky Donovan, Director of Exhibitions, ICI
  • Katie West, exhibiting artist, with Simon Charles
  • Stephanie Smith, implementing curator, Actions for the Earth at the Block Museum 
  • Lisa Graziose Corrin, Ellen Philips Katz Executive Director, Block Museum 

Directed by Greg Poole, produced by Sunset People
Cinematography: Sam Henriques
Color grading: Samantha Astolfi

Special thanks to Lindsay Bosch and the Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University

Collaborators
Sharmila Wood

Sharmila Wood is a Perth, Western Australia-based independent curator who works on creative and cultural initiatives producing, curating, and commissioning artwork.

Stephanie Smith

Curator and writer Stephanie Smith shapes collaborative, multi-disciplinary projects that are grounded in specific contexts and linked to global practices.

Katie West

Katie West is an interdisciplinary artist and Yindjibarndi woman of the Pilbara Tablelands, with a strong sense of home in Noongar Boodja.

Becky Donovan

Becky Donovan is Director of Exhibitions at ICI.