Event Description
This is the online version of the physical CODE RED exhibition Maine Historical Society (MHS) installed March 17--December 30, 2023 in Portland, Maine. This online exhibition, which includes a 3-D virtual tour, is accessible on Maine Memory Network 24/7 through 2024 and beyond. Co-curated by Tilly Laskey, MHS curator and Dr. Darren J. Ranco (Penobscot) Professor of Anthropology and Chair of Native American Programs, University of Maine. CODE RED examines the climate and biodiversity crisis by reuniting selected collections from the former Portland Society of Natural History, alongside MHS historic items and contemporary art. The exhibition delves into museum collecting practices, Indigenous Science, Western scientific methods, environmental justice, animals, lands, and cultures. It further explores Maine's pivotal role in the environmental movement and how people can channel hope and action to address climate heating, biodiversity loss, and eco-anxiety. https://www.mainememory.net/sitebuilder/site/3261/page/5181/display?use_mmn=1

Attendance
Access to the online exhibition CODE RED: Climate, Justice & Natural History Collections is available free 24/7 via MaineMemory.Net. It is open to all who are interested in: Indigenous science and ways of knowing, Western scientific methods, environmental justice, wildlife, woods, waters, endangered species, lands, cultures, Maine's pivotal role in the environmental movement, and how to channel hope and action to address climate heating, biodiversity loss, and eco-anxiety.

Registration Link
This exhibition is accessible without registration on Maine Memory Network 24/7 https://www.mainememory.net/sitebuilder/site/3261/page/5181/display?use_mmn=1

Deadline to Register (in UTC-6)


Contact
Elaine Tselikis
etselikis@mainehistory.org

Organization
Maine Historical Society
https://www.mainehistory.org/

Affiliations, if any
Advised by: Denise Altvater, Richard “Dick” Anderson, Andrew Beahm, Charlene Donahue, Gabriel Frey, Gal Frey, Bernd Heinrich, Doug Hitchcox, Avery Yale Kamila, Genevieve LeMoine, E. Christopher “Chris” Livesay, Bill McKibben, Jennifer Neptune, Mali Obomsawin, Jill Pelto, David Reidmiller, Lokotah Sanborn, and Frances Soctomah. Collaborators include: Abbe Museum, Bar Harbor, Maine, Gray Herbarium at Harvard University, Edmund S. Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library, Bates College, The Hodgdon Herbarium, University of New Hampshire, Hudson Museum University of Maine, Lewiston Public Library, Lillian Nordica Association, Peary MacMillan Arctic Museum, Pejepscot History Center, Maine State Archives, Maine State Museum, Massachusetts Audubon, New England Botany Society, Northern Maine Museum, University of Maine Presque Isle, Portland Public Library Archives, Donald Soctomah, and Sunlight Media Collective. Supported by: Elsie A. Brown Fund, Inc., Margaret E. Burnham Charitable Trust, Horizon Foundation, Inc., William Sloane Jelin Foundation, The Morton-Kelly Charitable Trust, Rines Thompson Fund, a component fund of the Maine Community Foundation, Elmina B. Sewall Foundation, and The Phineas W. Sprague Memorial Foundation.