Rising Seas in Bristol County: An Artist’s View

Rising Seas in Bristol County: An Artist’s View
Saturday, May 17 – Sunday, June 29
Reception: Sunday, May 18 | 2 – 4 pm

Using maps, scientific renderings of projected seawater inundations, photographs she took of the Bristol County shoreline, and her own artistic imaginings, interdisciplinary artist Linda Megathlin presents a series of photographic compilations depicting what rising seas might look like in Bristol County 2050- 2100.

Located at the head of Narragansett Bay, Barrington, Warren and Bristol are projected to be especially hard hit by sea level rise because there is nowhere for surging seas to go except over Bristol County’s densely populated land.

Megathlin created her photo-based artworks to raise people’s awareness of what could come to be and to spur dialogue as we begin to envision a future in a vastly different littoral zone.

The exhibit is open during regular Visitor Center hours in the Majorie Van Wickle Lyon Gallery in the Visitors Center.

Artist Bio

Linda Megathlin is an interdisciplinary artist who works primarily with photography and mixed media transfer prints with a focus on the transformation of iconic natural elements. Upon graduation from Smith College, she began her photographic life as a newspaper reporter and continued to photograph through a long career that included journalism, commercial and fine art photography, and corporate communications.

In 2003, she joined with seven other artists to establish IMAGO, as a cooperative art gallery in Warren. She’s been a board member since its inception and today serves as president of Imago Foundation for the Arts. Born in Boston, MA, she has lived in Rhode Island since 1980 and works today as a full-time artist from her studio in a converted mill located a few blocks from her home in Warren.

Visit her website HERE to learn more about her Rising Seas project and look at more of her images of sea level rise along the Bristol County shoreline.