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Artist Talk: "Neon Moss," Marianna Dixon Williams

Artist Talk: "Neon Moss," Marianna Dixon Williams

Join artist Marianna Dixon Williams as they discuss their latest exhibition "Neon Moss." This event is free and open to the public.

This video installation examines the convergence of personal and environmental transformation through the dual lens of queer identity and the impacts of Hurricane Helene in the Central Savannah River Area (CSRA). The layered footage of the artist's hometown from before, during, and after the hurricane serves as an analogy for William's own coming-out and evolving relationship to home. Sculptures made from reclaimed storm debris create a meditation on disruption, exploring how climate change has rendered the global intimate and immediate, and what it means to call a place home in an era when environmental crisis has become inescapably personal.

Marianna Dixon Williams builds handmade electronic objects and develops installations that question themes of identity, environmental change, and the ability of this world to be simulated, emulated, and measured digitally. Their work presents broader conversations regarding world-building, evolving and eroding social systems, and the societal conditions that have impacted our visions for the future as they explore our interconnected relationships with the land, digital life and each other.

Graham Hall, Brown Fine Arts Center, Smith College
05:00 PM - 11:59 PM on Tue, 23 Sep 2025

Event Supported By

Smith College Department of Art
413-585-3100
artdept@smith.edu

Artist Group Info

Marianna Dixon Williams
Graham Hall, Brown Fine Arts Center, Smith College
20 Elm St
Northampton, Massachusetts 01063
4135853100
artdept@smith.edu