SCHOOL - JOSEPH ROSSANO
SCHOOL: The Joseph Rossano Salmon Project
Conceptualized by artist Joseph Rossano, School is an international, multi-media, traveling art performance and exhibition that casts light on the diminished state of global salmon populations and the habitat on which they depend.
The installation features a life-size school of mirrored salmon-like forms, sculpted from molten glass by concerned individuals from around the world, as well as first-hand video accounts from renowned scientists, artists, and indigenous peoples. As School travels to different regions of the globe—regions with their own rivers and issues unique to each stock of fish that depend upon them—the narrative of the exhibition will change to cast light on that region's river and its fish populations.
When in Scotland, the narrative might focus on the River Dee; in New York, the Connecticut; in Montreal, the Grand Cascapédia; yet at the exhibit's end, like the salmon and steelhead it mimics, it will return to the place of its spawning in the Pacific Northwest.
With School's return it will tell the story of vanishing and endangered fish, their world, your world, and the world of makers that grew this symbol of awareness through art.
School has been show at a number of different locations including Bellevue Arts Museum in Washington State, COP26 Glasgow, Balmoral Castle, Macallan Distillery and Museum of Glass Tacoma.
"School", an exhibition spearheaded and conceptualized by artist Joseph Rossano, casts light on the diminished state of global salmon and steelhead populations. The installation features a life-size school of several hundred mirrored salmon, sculpted from molten glass by concerned glassmakers from around the world as well as first hand video accounts from renowned scientists, artists, and native peoples.
Artists Contributing to Artists The Joseph Rossano Salmon Project:
Julian Adkins, Coleman Anderson, Shane Anderson, Jesse Bach, C.B. Bell, Walter Biggs, Martin Blank, Michael Bray, Topher Browne, Dan Buchholz, Doug Burgess, Elias Burgess, Brandyn Callahan, Nick Chambers, Jason Christian, Nick Clawsen, Ben Cobb, Edwina Cusolito, Sean Dahlquist, Patricia Davidson, Joseph DeCamp, Abram Deslauriers, John DeWitt, James Devereux, James Downey, Jen Elek, Kristen Elliott, Brian Farmer, Gabe Feenan, Isaac Feuerman, Jerry French, Dan Friday, Sayuri Fukuda, Sarah Gilbert, Steve Gobin, Kayla Greet, Monty Gwaltney, Elias Hansen, John Harvey, Suzanne Head, Zack Hinderyckx, Eric Hoehne, Jessica Hogan, Meg Holgate, Todd Horton, Gregory Hunt, Madeline Hunt, Katherine Huskie, Peter Jacobsen, Ben Johnsen, Jesse Kelly, John Kiley, Derrek Klein, Charlotte Kord, Richard Langley, Andy Lawrence, Jourdyn Leavell, Walter Lieberman, James Madison, Sam MacMillan, Carol Milne, Jason Mouer, John Olschewsky, Greg Owen, Greg Piercy, Laurie Povey Crawford, Sterling Powell, David Price, Trenton Quiocho, John Reed, Kait Rhoads, Ross Richmond, David Rios, Joseph Rossano, Samantha Scalise, Carrie-Lee Schwartz, Monique Simkova, Raven Skyriver, April Surgent, Sasha Tepper-Stewart, Mark Titus, Randy Walker, David Walters, Amy Wang, Kate Albert Ward, and Lisa Young.
