Beschrijving

World Without End examines the ongoing impact of the groundbreaking African American scientist and artist George Washington Carver. The book functions as an experimental springboard to explore reframing Carver’s scientific labor as activist and artistic in origin alongside the work of contemporary artists and thinkers.

George Washington Carver was a pioneer of plant-based engineering and one of the nation’s earliest proponents of sustainable agriculture. A practicing artist, Carver used sustainable materials such as peanut- and clay-derived dyes and paints in his weavings and paintings. World Without End explores how contemporary artists and scientists engage with Carver’s ideas. Alongside contemporary works, the exhibition and its catalogue include previously unpublished material documenting Carver’s life and work.