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DESCRIPTION:The exhibit Earth is a Snowball: Recent work by School of Art &
  Design Faculty opens with a reception Sept. 10 at 5 p.m. The exhibit will
  be on display in the Laura and Paul Mesaros Galleries through Nov. 4\, 20
 26. \n\nSnowball Earth is a geohistorical hypothesis coined by Joseph Kirs
 chvink in 1992 that posits that our world was completely frozen\, or at le
 ast in a slushy state\, for a period of some hundreds of millions of years
 . This global freeze is said to have ushered in the Avalon and Cambrian ex
 plosions\, sudden evolutionary events wherein metazoan biodiversity massiv
 ely increased. In short\, this inhospitable state may have been the bottle
 neck that triggered multicellularity\, the origin of what we know as compl
 ex life.\n\nThis theory is not without its skeptics. Opponents argue that 
 if Earth were in fact to ever freeze over\, it would be impossible to thaw
 . For the same reason\, we humans fear stagnation— whether personal\, ec
 onomic\, or environmental— as these too might result in an irreversible 
 snowball. But it is precisely this period of incubation that welcomes the 
 next stage. Growth is still underway while we wait for better conditions. 
 After all\, the ingredients must be prepared before the primordial soup is
  made. This is what the studio is. Artists are the soup\, or rather\, they
  are the ones making it.  \n\nIt is this cycle of reflection and creation 
 that drives the faculty of the School of Art & Design. It is what inspires
  their shared research interests of sustainability and a global understand
 ing of our place in the world. There is no thaw without freeze\, no succes
 s without struggle\, no growth without stagnation. Sometimes\, Earth is a 
 snowball.
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LOCATION:Canady Creative Arts Center\, Douglas O'Blaney Lobby
SUMMARY:"Earth is a Snowball" Reception
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