CSU art exhibition uses air pollution to create art

On display from Jan. 22 to March 14 at CSU’s Gregory Allicar Museum of Art, the exhibit “Community Smog” is the product of a partnership between artist Kim Abeles and Northern Colorado community members to create “Smog Collectors.”  These plates — which mimic air quality by collecting particulates from the air — were produced collaboratively with Fort Collins seventh graders, artists at Petrichor Collective, members of the Air Quality Monitoring Advisory Committee and resident families at a manufactured home park in the Boulder area as part of Air Quality Through the Arts, a local project designed to educate the public about particulates in our air.

On view alongside these community-made smog collectors are Abeles’s other works, which speak to the environment, civic engagement and science literacy. Interspersed are other tools used to measure atmospheric conditions, on loan from Colorado State University’s Department of Atmospheric Science.

“Community Smog” is presented in collaboration with the Center for Environmental Justice and the Department of Atmospheric Science. Support for this exhibition and related programming is provided by made possible through the City of Fort Collins Fort Fund, the City of Fort Collins Cross-Sector Impact Grant, the FUNd Endowment at CSU and the Lilla B. Morgan Memorial Endowment, which works to enhance cultural development and the arts at Colorado State University.

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