Ecotopian Library at the CUAM, Boulder, Colorado curated by Sandra Firman
Ecotopian Library is a long-term project that stems from the belief that art and ecotopian thought can be part of cultivating systemic social change. The toolkit combines disciplines of forestry, botany, art, literature, and the sciences asking people who classify themselves as artists, scholars, librarians, neighbors, scientists, indigenous knowledge holders, and writers to contribute stories, objects, digital files, experiences, or books to build a toolkit for regenerative futures within climate change. I look at each thing as a tool for sensing through and building upon.
The Ecotopian Library was supported by the University of Colorado Museum of Art (CUAM), and was on view at the CUAM through July 2020.
An Ecotopian Library "Reading Room" made entirely of objects will be at the Cuenca Biennial in Ecuador in December 2021 and later in Arizona State University's Contemporary Art Museum curated by Mark Dion and Heather Lineberry. In the spring of 2023, it moved to the Thomas Cole Historic Site in the Catskills. Since it is place-based and it travels, it accumulates tools as it moves. It is also currently on view at the Hudson Area Library in Hudson, NY as well as
In 2022, the Museum London hosted the Ecotopian Library in London, Ontario, curated by Patric Mahon and Jeff Thomas. The London Public Library carried an Ecotopian Library section inspired by the exhibition.
