Into the Quiet and the Light: Water, Life, and Land Loss in South Louisiana

Virginia Hanusik is an artist whose work explores the relationships between landscape, culture, and the built environment. Her projects have been exhibited internationally and supported by the Graham Foundation, the Andy Warhol Foundation, the Pulitzer Center, and the Mellon Foundation, among others. She writes about landscape representation, extraction, and the visual narratives of climate change, and has been featured in the New Yorker, the Oxford American, the British Journal of Photography, and National Geographic. 

Her book, Into the Quiet and the Light: Water, Life, and Land Loss in South Louisiana, which explores the vulnerabilities and possibilities of living on the water during a time of ecological collapse, is now available wherever books are sold. Copies of her book will be for sale at this event, courtesy of the Penn Bookstore. 

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