Toward 2050

DATE: Feb. 8 - June 1
TIME: 8 a.m. - 8 p.m.
PRICE: Included in Membership and General Admission

Explore an engaging exhibit led by textile-based artist Ann Morton, centered on community and environment. TOWARD 2050 invites the public to craft handmade artworks that express their views on the environment. These unique creations will come together in a captivating labyrinth installation at the Garden that encourages visitors to take steps towards addressing climate change.

Call to makers: This project begins with YOU. Sign up at TOWARD2050AZ.com to create 10”x10” double sided flags using a variety of techniques like weaving, sewing, embroidery, appliqué, screen print or fabric dyeing. Makers are encouraged to re-use materials you already have to create your own interpretation of beloved elements of our environment. Once you sign up, we’ll send you a packet with detailed instructions, cotton tags to add to your flag panels and postcards to send to your lawmakers.

About the Artist
Ann Morton is a textile-based artist, educator and social practitioner ​living in Phoenix, Arizona. Her work utilizes traditional fiber techniques as conceptual tools for aesthetic, social communication to examine a society of which we are all a part — as bystanders, participants, victims and perpetrators. She is driven by a desire to employ her art as a voice for advocacy. The work reflects her own handwork, but also orchestrates the handwork from a variety of community participants through public interventions that seek to harness the power in the act of making for social purpose.