Madeline Cass, salt marsh grass at Arbor Lake, 2018, archival pigment print. Courtesy of the artist.
how lonely, to be a marsh
Lower-level Gallery
January 19–May 8, 2027
how lonely, to be a marsh is an expanded exhibition of an ongoing project by Madeline Cass originally commissioned by the Platte Basin Timelapse project at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Bringing together new photographic works made since the project’s 2019 publication with select natural history specimens and archival materials, the exhibition explores wetlands and museum collections as sites of memory, preservation, and loss. Through photography, ambient landscape audio, video, and objects, the exhibition invites sustained looking and listening, asking how ecological grief is held, witnessed, and made visible within institutional spaces.