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Join us this Thursday, January 23, at 6:30 pm for the film, "Tomorrow."

Many global issues today make us feel cynical. However, this film provides reasons to remain hopeful, showcasing "alternative and creative ways of viewing agriculture, economics, energy, and education." While remaining realistic about the challenges we face, it offers solutions that can be achieved through local action to have a global impact.

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4 days ago

Seeking Middle or High School students interested in the arts to join a project at Nurture Nature Center for the Easton Hunger Coalition: 20/20 VISION: Eyes on Hunger. We will be at Nurture Nature Center on Saturday, January 25, 1 pm - 3pm having an artists' mixer to explain the project. Community service hours counted; an excellent opportunity.
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6 days ago

Nurture Nature Center will be closed today, Saturday, due to forecasted snow. ... See MoreSee Less

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1 week ago

Thursday night, 7 pm, and Saturday, 1 pm

The Science on a Sphere show Frozen Earth answers questions about how the Earth's poles and snow and ice-covered ares affect the atmosphere, climate, weather, and even the balance of life on Earth. ... See MoreSee Less

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Our winter film series begins January 23 - mark your calendars! ... See MoreSee Less

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Webinar: Introduction to U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit and Climate Explorer

07jan4:40 pm4:40 pmWebinar: Introduction to U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit and Climate ExplorerEvent:Upcoming EventsProgram:Community,Science

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(Tuesday) 4:40 pm - 4:40 pm

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The U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit represents an effort by the federal government to help people, businesses, and municipalities acknowledge and respond to their changing climate conditions. Users can find plain-language overviews on potential climate hazards, case studies describing how people build resilience to these hazards, and freely-available digital tools that can help communities move toward resilience. You’ll also check the site’s Climate Explorer tool to explore what climate projections indicate for future decades in the Lehigh Valley.

Speaker LuAnn Dahlman serves as a co-managing editor for the U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit. a former educator and curriculum developer, she contributes to Climate.gov and serves as a user-advocate for interactive tools such as Climate Explorer.

Webinars are free and open to all who are interested. To register for the webinar, email ksemmens@nurturenature.org Remote viewing will be through GoToMeeting or viewing is available at Nurture Nature Center itself.

09jan6:00 pm9:00 pmThe Inner Eye of Art, the Outer SparkEvent:Upcoming EventsProgram:Art,Art Exhibits

The Inner Eye of Art, the Outer Spark

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(Thursday) 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm

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This expansive exhibit features works in painting and sculpture by contemporary artist Thom Cooney Crawford who works in Easton.

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This expansive exhibit features works in painting and sculpture by contemporary artist Thom Cooney Crawford who works in Easton.

16jan7:00 pm8:00 pmScience on a Sphere: Frozen Earth, the Cold's Far-Reaching InfluenceEvent:Upcoming EventsProgram:Science,Sphere Shows

Science on a Sphere: Frozen Earth, the Cold's Far-Reaching Influence

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(Thursday) 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

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Discover how influential the Earth's poles and snow and ice-covered areas are, and their effects on the atmosphere, climate, weather, and even the balance of life on Earth. Learn how

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Discover how influential the Earth’s poles and snow and ice-covered areas are, and their effects on the atmosphere, climate, weather, and even the balance of life on Earth. Learn how these regions are changing and what that means for your future.

18jan1:00 pm2:00 pmScience on a Sphere: Frozen Earth: The Cold's Far-Reaching InfluenceEvent:Upcoming EventsProgram:Science,Sphere Shows

Science on a Sphere: Frozen Earth: The Cold's Far-Reaching Influence

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(Saturday) 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

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Discover how influential the Earth's poles and snow and ice-covered areas are, and their effects on the atmosphere, climate, weather, and even the balance of life on Earth. Learn how

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23jan6:30 pm8:30 pmFilm Series: TomorrowEvent:Upcoming EventsProgram:Community,Science

Film Series: Tomorrow

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(Thursday) 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

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It's easy to become cynical when faced with the many global issues of today. Tomorrow provides reasons to remain hopeful, showcasing "alternative and creative ways of viewing agriculture, economics, energy,

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It’s easy to become cynical when faced with the many global issues of today. Tomorrow provides reasons to remain hopeful, showcasing “alternative and creative ways of viewing agriculture, economics, energy, and education.” While remaining realistic about the challenges we face, it offers solutions that can be achieved through local action to have a global impact.

24jan7:00 pm9:00 pmBoy Scout Merit Badge Workshop: Citizenship in the CommunityEvent:Upcoming EventsProgram:Community

Boy Scout Merit Badge Workshop: Citizenship in the Community

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(Friday) 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

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This two-part workshop is offered to Boy Scout members working on merit badges. The first workshop will include a panel of representatives from local municipalities and non-profit community organizations. The second workshop will focus on what Scouts discovered about their own communities and reporting about their volunteer experiences in community organizations.

30jan6:30 pm9:00 pmVelvet Woods - Claire McConaughyArt Exhibit Opening ReceptionEvent:Upcoming EventsProgram:Art,Art Exhibits,Community

Velvet Woods - Claire McConaughy

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(Thursday) 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm

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“Wonderment at the world is art’s perennial subject. Artists are always waking us up, not just to material phenomena themselves but to our own awareness of them. Representational art acts

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“Wonderment at the world is art’s perennial subject. Artists are always waking us up, not just to material phenomena themselves but to our own awareness of them. Representational art acts as a kind of lens, refracting the observable and allowing us to see it with a measure of the artist’s own vision.”

— “How Comfortable it will be to touch the Earth”: Claire McConaughy at the Painting Center by John Mendelsohn, Artcritical Nov 2019

In the works of “Velvet Woods” there is nature, the observation of nature, a genuine connection, and transformation into a deeply human reflection. Like 19th century American landscape painting, McConaughy’s works have a direct honest approach to marveling at what is seen, but unlike that historical precedent she loosely brushes graphite with expressive lines, drips and dabs that pour out of the gesture of her brush onto the surface. She chooses to not replicate the scene precisely, but instead to interpret and transform the woods into dreamy visages. Using a combination of painted passages and fluidly drawn lines, her process creates layered imagery of interlaced trees, branches and visions of woods. The layers and light in her paintings create spatial tensions and surprising metaphors. These works continue in the lineage of landscape painting, and also come from McConaughy’s early experiences in southwestern Pennsylvania and life in New York City.

Claire McConaughy is a painter who lives and works in New York. She earned her MFA in painting from Columbia University and BFA from Carnegie Mellon University. She has exhibited widely throughout her career in New York galleries and alternative spaces. Her works are included in corporate and private collections. For over a decade McConaughy was on the staff of New Observations Magazine, a non-profit art journal and is currently a professor of art.

30jan6:30 pm9:00 pmInfamous Oculus - Works by Jackie LimaArt Exhibit Opening ReceptionEvent:Upcoming EventsProgram:Art,Art Exhibits,Community

Infamous Oculus - Works by Jackie Lima

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(Thursday) 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm

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Seeing - is something that many people take for granted. It is a powerful phenomenon in experiencing the world/life we live in day to day. The Space we occupy and

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Seeing – is something that many people take for granted. It is a powerful phenomenon in experiencing the world/life we live in day to day. The Space we occupy and move through – is 3-Dimensional. In outer space, all positive matter forms into a sphere with its own center of Gravity. We live upon such a sphere…the Earth. It is not Flat.

I think of my head as being a Gravitational center. From this center, I look at the World around me, and have found that – if I measure everything, it fits the skin of a sphere…perfectly. Out of a desire to have ALL of visible space in my paintings, floor/nadir, ceiling/zenith, and 360 degrees in all directions, I began painting the world around me on spherical surfaces.

I have experimented with other forms of representing this visual sphere, such as cutting it open and laying it flat – as Mercator did projecting his map of the Earth – seeking the least amount of distortion.

The form of my 3-Dimensional paintings is based upon various processes of visual perception. If I look at it this way, what will I find. These ways of looking and seeing are all related to the cutting-up of the sphere/visual field. I look at space, pull it apart, and put it back together, in many different ways. Thoughts and ideas via words, texts and drawing have also become prominent in my work, alongside painting. I try to never make the same painting twice. I always try to look at it in a different way.

Moving THROUGH this space has created other forms – like strips of space, which have jumped off the wall. This pseudo-scientific approach manifests the ”optical unconscious” into Poetic Visual Art.

Jackie Lima

January 2020