Artist: Gabrielle Senza
Exhibition Dates: June 21–July 6, 2025
Location: Studio Lab Eleven, Railroad Street, Great Barrington, MA
Contact: [Your Email] | [Your Phone] | gabriellesenza.com/avf
Press Release
Of Water and Ice: Echoes from the Edge of Antarctica
Great Barrington, MA — 26 May 2025 — This summer, artist and environmental advocate Gabrielle Senza invites the public into an evocative space of reflection and renewal with Of Water and Ice: Echoes from the Edge of Antarctica—a benefit art exhibition hosted at her downtown Great Barrington studio, in support of the Alliance for a Viable Future’s Climate Leadership Cohort Journey Scholarship Fund.
Developed during her recent Knob Hill Artist Residency and inspired by a life-changing expedition to Antarctica in 2022, the exhibition features drawings, paintings, studies, sketches, and sculptures that trace the fragile edge where ecological transformation meets the liminal space of memory and impermanence.
Running from June 20 to July 6, 2025, the exhibition offers visitors a series of events that combine community connection with ritual, sound, storytelling, and care. Highlights include:
Friday, June 20 | 1–3PM — Opening Reception
Friday, June 20 | 2PM — Solstice Meditation for Climate Resilience, led by Dan Ruderman (Knob Hill Artist Residency), with ambient Earth music by Terra Luna
Saturday, June 21 | 12–4PM — Open Studio Hours
Sunday, June 22 | 1–5PM — Rooted Together for a Viable Future: Short films, sound bath, and creative conversation with AVF Founder Lev Natan and Climate Leadership Cohort Members
Additional offerings (dates/times TBD) include:
- Forest Bathing with Terra Luna
- Cacao Ceremony
- In/Visibility Lab Performance Lecture & Workshop
- Silent Art Auction featuring selected works
This exhibition is an invitation to slow down, listen deeply, and reimagine what it means to care for the Earth and each other.
Admission is free or by donation. Some events may require RSVP due to limited space.
For full schedule, hours, and to make an appointment: gabriellesenza.com/avf
Event Calendar Listing (100 words)
Of Water and Ice: Echoes from the Edge of Antarctica
June 20–July 6, Studio Lab Eleven, 11 Railroad Street, Great Barrington, MA
Artist Gabrielle Senza presents a benefit exhibition supporting the Alliance for a Viable Future’s Climate Leadership Cohort Scholarship Fund. The show includes drawings, paintings, sketches, and sculptures inspired by her 2022 Antarctica expedition and created during her Knob Hill Artist Residency.
Events include an Artist Talk, sound bath, forest bathing, film screenings, and a silent auction.
Info + Appointments: gabriellesenza.com/avf
Short Media Blurb (50 words)
Of Water and Ice: Echoes from the Edge of Antarctica is a benefit exhibition by artist Gabrielle Senza, running June 20–July 6 at Studio Lab Eleven in Great Barrington. The show supports climate leadership through the Alliance for a Viable Future and features new work based on her Antarctic expedition.
Details: gabriellesenza.com/avf
Artist Bio (Short)
Gabrielle Senza is a multidisciplinary artist, educator, and climate advocate whose work explores visibility, myth, and belonging. Her drawings, installations, and participatory projects have been presented internationally and are rooted in creating spaces of transformation, healing, and collective action.
Artist Bio (Extended)
Gabrielle Senza is an interdisciplinary artist, educator, writer, and environmental advocate whose work invites intimate, often participatory experiences of visibility, transformation, and ecological connection. With a practice that spans drawing, installation, sound, performance, and social practice, her work delves into themes of memory, trauma, embodiment, and belonging—often using natural materials and metaphors to explore invisible systems, internal landscapes, and planetary fragility.
Senza’s projects have been exhibited internationally in museums, galleries, public spaces, and collaborative community contexts. She is the founder of the In/Visibility Lab, a multidisciplinary creative research platform for participatory art experiments and research-based installations focused on presence, perception, and the conditions that render people, places, and truths unseen.
In 2022, she journeyed to Antarctica to experience firsthand the beauty and vulnerability of the most southern continent. That expedition, and her subsequent Knob Hill Artist Residency, inspired the body of work featured in Of Water and Ice: Echoes from the Edge of Antarctica.
Her work is included in the collections of the Whitney Museum and MoMA New York, and has been supported by institutions including the Transart Institute of Creative Practice, the Puffin Foundation, and the Massachusetts Cultural Council. She is currently based in the Berkshires, where she maintains Studio Lab Eleven and mentors creatives at the intersection of art, activism, and regenerative practice.
Images Available
High-resolution images of artwork, installation previews, and the studio space are available upon request.
Contact Gabrielle Senza at hello@gabriellesenza.com for access.
Thank you for sharing this experience and supporting climate leadership through creativity and connection.