PhD Student, History of Art & Architecture
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Ada Evans is a Ph.D. candidate in the History of Art and Architecture department at Boston University studying contemporary eco art and climate communication. She explores how climate instability and large-scale ecological systems can be visualized, and made more accessible, through artistic practice.
At Tulane University, her master’s thesis project centered contemporary art engaged with oceanic climate change and investigated the role of organic materials in imagining sea-level rise and coastal land loss.
Her work engages new materialism(s), ecocriticism and affect theory. By interrogating the role of eco art in the Anthropocene, she hopes to clarify the ways art can communicate complex climatic data, influence individual and collective behavior, and invoke an environmental ethic of reciprocity.
Research Interests:
- Contemporary Eco Art
- American Land Art