Welcome to Bird Land: Michele L'Heureux
With artist/collaborator Helen Popinchalk
Reception: Thursday, July 12, 4-6pm
We have a lot in common with birds: we both build elaborate nests, travel long distances, communicate with melodious complexity, and demonstrate incredible resilience and fragility. Birds are a barometer of how well humans are doing on this planet. Their survival is inextricably linked to our behavior, and our survival is surprisingly linked to their ability to thrive.
Welcome to Bird Land draws inspiration from birds: their habitat, their flight patterns, their plumage, and the human enterprises of bird appreciation and bird-watching. In the exhibition, Michele L’Heureux, working with artist/collaborator Helen Popinchalk, explores how the encounter with one bird—the “spark bird”—can inspire a lifetime of admiration and wonder. Along with an interactive bird blind, the exhibition will feature collage, costumes, photography, and bird prints from the Lamont Gallery collection.
Welcome to this immersive ode to birds.
L’Heureux is an artist and curator who is currently Director and Curator of the galleries at Montserrat College of Art in Beverly, MA. She has more than ten years of experience curating exhibitions with a particular focus on interdisciplinary exhibitions and programming that bring the humanities and sciences to bear on art. L’Heureux holds an M.A. in Philosophy from Temple University, an M.F.A. in Painting from University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, and a B.A. in Studio Art from Wheaton College in Norton, MA.
Image Credits: All images courtesy of Michele L’Heureux
Lamont Gallery programs are supported in part by the Michael C. Rockefeller ’56 Visiting Artists Fund.