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| Border Walls, the Waiving of Laws, and the Struggle to Save the Borderlands with Scott Nicol Co-Chair of the Sierra Club's Borderlands Team Wednesday, June 8, 2016 7 pm In conjunction with current exhibition Fencing In Democracy, organized by Miguel Diaz-Barriga and Margaret Dorsey. |
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Hundreds of miles of concrete and steel walls line the U.S.-Mexico border, slicing through sensitive ecosystems. Sierra Club's Scott Nicol will discuss the border wall’s destructive impact on the environment and the Sierra Club’s opposition to border wall construction. With a looming Presidential election, calls for longer, taller border walls are louder now than ever before. Mr. Nicol’s multimedia presentation draws attention to an aspect of border wall construction that is missing in national debates: its impact on wildlife, nature preserves, and border ecology.
Scott Nicol is an artist, educator, and activist based out of McAllen, Texas, on the eastern end of the U.S.-Mexico border. Scott is Co-Chair of the Sierra Club's Borderlands Team, which focuses its efforts on the environmental impacts of border militarization. He is also an Assistant Professor of Visual Arts at South Texas College. This event is free and open to the public. apexart's exhibitions and public programs are supported in part by the Lambent Foundation Fund of Tides Foundation, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Bloomberg Philanthropies, Degenstein Foundation, The Greenwich Collection Ltd., Affirmation Arts Fund, the Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation, the Fifth Floor Foundation, and with public funds from New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. |
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