PORT ANGELES — The questions posed by “Exposure,” the art show now at Peninsula College’s PUB Gallery: How would you describe your personal relationship with the natural world, and how does your background influence your perception?
Peninsula College ceramics teacher Steve Belz, the artist behind this show opening today at the PUB Gallery, will give a talk on these questions later this week.
Belz’ public Studium Generale lecture will start at 12:35 p.m. Thursday in the Little Theater, which is adjacent to the PUB Gallery on the main Peninsula College campus at 1502 E. Lauridsen Blvd.
Admission is free to the public for both the talk and the show, which will stay on display through Jan. 13.
During Thursday’s 50-minute lecture, Belz will go into how nature inspires his art, and how he seeks to increase his viewers’ emotional connection with nature.
A 1995 environmental studies graduate of the Evergreen State College in Olympia, Belz notes that he interprets contemporary global issues such as genetic modification in the food system, energy consumption and society’s perception of the Earth’s natural resources.
“I hope that my art will highlight some of the tensions present in our environment,” he said, “and encourage viewers to consider their relationship” with those resources.
For more information about the “Exposure” show and Thursday’s program, contact Peninsula College art professor Michael Paul Miller at mmiller@pencol.edu or 360-417-6476.
