Thompson Gallery Exhibit Archive
List of 47 news stories.
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Nothing's Changing Fast Enough
From the collection of John Thompson, a grouping of paintings, drawings, prints, and leather works by Robert Freeman, Mitchell Rembert, and Winfred Rembert.
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Kasem Kydd—Was, Is, An Eclipse
About Vulnerability 3/3
September 8 - December 18, 2020
Kasem Kydd—Was, Is, An Eclipse confronts viewers with a rumination on the roots white supremacy and its persistent effects on black people(s). Kasem Kydd (Chicago, IL, CSW' 14)) exhibits their assemblages, collages, installation, and video works that address this sensitive and timely topic with directness, irony, and poetic allusion. Was, Is, An Eclipse simultaneously examines self amidst these changing times, while the installation poetically but soberingly calls to memory the history of Colonial slavery. At the heart of their work is a call for the kind of justice that is culturally transformational. -
Faculty & Staff Reflections—About Vulnerability
About Vulnerability 2/3February 28 - March 6, 2020For this, our second of three shows in the About Vulnerability exhibition series, we turn our attention to CSW Faculty & Staff Reflections on our yearlong theme. Our exhibition presents 18 individuals from various school-wide departments who responded to the call to “share something they have made or otherwise selected that highlights any aspect of vulnerability." -
Christiane Dolores—The Book of White People
About Vulnerability 1/3September 6 - February 18, 2020Residency: October 22-23, 2019The Book of White People, by multidisciplinary artist Christiane Dolores, is a rumination on whiteness and how that affects people of color. Dolores’ paintings, assemblages, text-based works and installation unpacks this sensitive topic with directness, humor and an invitation for viewer participation.
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Jennifer Langhammer '89 • Richard Nocera '92—Circulus Retro
Circulus Retro 3/3
April 1 - June 13, 2019Circulus Retro examines the recent work of two Cambridge School of Weston alums—Langhammer 1989, Nocera 1992—whose abstract work explores process and repetition, surface design and organic motifs. -
Evelyn Davis-Walker—House + Wife Revisited
Circulus Retro 2/3
December 17, 2018 - March 15, 2019Residency: Monday - Tuesday, February 25-26, 2019House + Wife Revisited presents Evelyn Davis-Walker's assemblage installation, which converts the gallery into a 1940s Sears and Roebuck home, replete with period objects that critically explore 1930-1959 advertisement imagery. -
Nathan Stromberg—Back To Go Forward
Circulus Retro 1/3
September 7 - November 9, 2018Back to Go Forward features the recent collages of Minnesota-based Nathan Stromberg, who cuts up vintage magazines of post-war America as resource materials for interpreting the depiction of period objects. -
Niho Kozuru—Monocasts & Multipours
With Eyes Open IV/IVRanging from poured patterns of positive/negative shapes to cast and reconfigured architectural elements in column forms, Monocasts & Multipours presents a select overview of Niho Kozuru’s vibrantly colored rubber sculptures made over the last decade.
April 6 - June 15, 2018
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NAWA—With Eyes Open
With Eyes Open III/IVDecember 19, 2017 - March 2, 2018The National Association of Women Artists (NAWA)--originally, the Women’s Art Club--was created over one hundred years ago to provide women with opportunities for their voices to flourish in a cultural atmosphere of inequality. With Eyes Open reflects on the state of women’s voices in the Arts and celebrates NAWA artists. -
Naoe Suzuki—Dreamcatchers
With Eyes Open II/IV
October 30 - December 20, 2017Dreamcatchers is an installation of ten-foot archival digital prints on scroll vellum—layered tracings of scientific notations from the artist’s residency at the Broad Institute in Cambridge, MA. -
Cynthia Atwood—Alphabet of Weapons
With Eyes Open I/IV
September 8 - November 15, 2017
Cynthia Atwood—Alphabet of Weapons is the first exhibition in the With Eyes Open series—a series of three exhibitions celebrating New England women artists. Cynthia Atwood’s Alphabet of Weapons is comprised of 26 metaphorical sculptures that explore psychological, emotional, and interpersonal ways that doing harm is socially learned.
To read the ArtScope Review of Cynthia Atwood—Alphabet of Weapons please follow the below link:
Cynthia Atwood Review
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Gonçalo Mabunda—Light & Dark
Light & Dark IV/IV
March 28 - May 6, 2017
Gonçalo Mabunda—Light & Dark showcases the the found object assemblages of Gonçalo Mabunda (b. 1975, Maputo, Mozambique). Mabunda’s disarming, deceptively aesthetic sculptures fuse African fetish traditions with the national memory of a devastating civil war, transforming residual bric-a-brac of war into objects that suggest alternate visions of how his culture might have otherwise employed itself with ambient materials. -
Ethan Cohen—Masks
Special Satellite Exhibiton for the Light & Dark Exhibition Series
March 28 - April 7 (Installation Space)Ethan Cohen—Masks presents a select grouping of African masks and sculptures for a brief exhibition at the IS which sheds light on the history of African influence on Modern European art. -
Aboudia—Light & Dark
Light & Dark III/IV
March 28 - June 9, 2017Aboudia—Light & Dark examines Aboudia’s (b. 1983 Abidjan, Ivory Coast) multilayered paintings, suggestive of the vivid, complicated pageant of contemporary Africa. Aboudia’s visions of Light & Dark suggest aesthetic redemption with the possibilities of transforming chaos into vitality, painful events into a renewable hope. -
Jack Massey—Light & Dark
Light & Dark II/IV
December 15, 2016 - February 24, 2017The second exhibition in the Light & Dark series presents a select group of drawings, collages and small-scale installations by Jack Massey (b. 1925, Pittsburgh, PA, professor emeritus at RISD). Light & Dark explores Massey’s interdisciplinary, poetically allusive and often whimsical work blends artistic genres, including minimalism, abstraction, trompe l’oeil, objet trové and conceptual art. -
Charlie Nevad—Light & Dark
Light & Dark I/IV
September 9 - November 30, 2016Charlie Nevad—Light & Dark surveys the mid 20th Century Modernist paintings of Charlie Nevad (Perth Amboy, NJ 1921-1990). Light & Dark provides an overview of the last 3 decades of Nevad’s artistic production and examines his symbolism and the transformation of his painting technique—from his impressionist-inspired brushwork, to his experimentations with Abstract Expressionism, collage and primitivism. -
Nowhere Everywhere
Nowhere Everywhere III/III
April 1 - June 18, 2016 (Thompson Gallery & thompsongallery.csw.org)April 19 - May 13 (Red Wall Gallery)The final show in a 3 part series, Nowhere Everywhere is both an analog and digital exhibition at the Thompson Gallery and its website. Nowhere Everywhere showcases the work of 68 artists that offer a cross section of work examining human perfectibility, dystopic societal issues and utopian potentials. -
Raúl Gonzalez III—Nowhere Everywhere
Nowhere Everywhere II/III
December 17, 2015 - March 11, 2016The second of three exhibitions in the Nowhere Everywhere exhibition series presents the cultural portraiture of Raúl Gonzalez III. Gonzalez’s exquisite drawings are balanced by a sobering and critical examination of Latin—American issues including the “romance of the west,” Latino stereotypes, and immigration. -
China Marks—Nowhere Everywhere
Nowhere Everywhere I/III
September 4 - November 14, 2015
The first of three exhibitions in the series, China Marks—Nowhere Everywhere explores social relationships, human conflict and human imperfectability through a 13-year survey of the fantastic and irresistibly irreverent, constructed fabric drawings of China Marks.
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Lucine Kasbarian—Perspectives from Exile
Kiss the Ground VI/VI
May 18 - June 13, 2015
Red Wall Gallery
Mugar Center for the Performing Arts
Assembly: Monday, May 18, 2015, 10:00 - 11:00 a.m.Lucine Kasbarian—Perspectives from Exile is a special, additional exhibition, added to the Kiss the Ground exhibition series, designed to be concurrent to A New Armenia (Part 3). Perspectives from Exile examines the political cartoons of Lucine Kasbarian, who's work unflinchingly chronicles the intergovernmental relationship between Armenia, Turkey and the United States of America, the history of the Armenian Genocide, and the persistent denial of those crimes against humanity of over one hundred years ago.
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Kiss the Ground—A New Armenia III/III
Kiss the Ground V/VIMarch 30 - June 13, 2015The final show in the, Kiss the Ground series A New Armenia examines and celebrates contemporary Armenian art, one hundred years after the 1915 Armenian Genocide and coincides with the April 24th centennial commemoration. A New Armenia ispart 3 of a three-part exhibition in two venus—the first 2 parts of the series occurred at the Armenian Museum of America—is a group exhibition that brings together Armenian artists from myriad locations working in a variety of media: John Avakian (Sharon, MA, print-making), Gail Boyajian (Cambridge, MA, painting), Adrienne Der Marderosian (Belmont, MA, works on paper), Jackie Kazarian (Chicago, IL, painting), Aida Laleian (Williamstown, MA, digital collage), Yefkin Megherian (Queens, NY, bronze bas-reliefs), Marsha Odabashian (Dedham, MA, painting installation), Kevork Mourad (New York, NY, Drawing, time-based drawing, video projection), Apo Torosyan (Newton, MA, assemblage and documentary film). -
Kiss the Ground—A New Armenia II/III
Kiss the Ground IV/VIJanuary 25 - March 1, 2015Kiss the Ground—A New Armenia part 2 is the second exhibition in a three part exhibition series in two venues—the Armenian Museum of America and the Thompson Gallery—examines and celebrates contemporary Armenian art, one hundred years after the 1915 Armenian Genocide. Kiss the Ground—A New Armenia part 2 examines and celebrates the work of Gagik Aroutiunian, John Avakian, Jackie Kazarian and Apo Torosyan.
Kiss the Ground—A New Armenia (parts 1 & 2) Catalog -
Talin Megherian—Kiss the Ground
Kiss the Ground III/VI
December 18, 2014 - March 13, 2015The second exhibition in the Kiss the Ground series focuses on the abstract-narrative paintings of Talin Megherian (Watertown, MA), which visualize collective Armenian memory and identity. Giving voice to the memories of her family and Armenian women in particular, Megherian’s eclectic and colorful paintings are bejeweled by historical events, literary references, and cultural artifacts.
Talin Megherian—Kiss the Ground Catalog
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Kiss the Ground—A New Armenia I/III
Kiss the Ground II/VI
December 7, 2014 - January 20, 2015
The Thompson Gallery (The Cambridge School of Weston, Weston, MA) and The Armenian Museum of America have joined forces to present Kiss the Ground, a 5-part exhibition series centering on the work of 12 Armenian artists. The exhibitions examine and celebrate contemporary Armenian art at a particular moment in history, organized to coincide with the centennial memorialization of the 1915 Armenian Genocide. At its core, the exhibition series is catalyzed by the contrast between celebration and remembrance
Kiss the Ground—A New Armenia (parts 1 & 2) Catalog -
Gagik Aroutounian—Kiss the Ground
Kiss the Ground I/VI
September 5, 2014 - November 15, 2014
Kiss the Ground is a five-part exhibition series that examines and celebrates contemporary Armenian art, one hundred years after the 1915 Armenian Genocide. The first exhibition in the series showcases the assemblage sculptures, paintings and time-based media works of Armenian born, Chicago-based Gagik Aroutiunian, whose art explores identity, memory and the displacement of family.
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Milton Rogovin—Social Optometry
Picturing the Invisible III/IIIApril 4, 2014 - June 14, 2014Picturing the Invisible explores photography as a tool of scientific, personal and social visualization. Social Optometry, the third and final exhibition in the series, examines the work of social documentary photographer Milton Rogovin, who unflinchingly used his photographs as a vehicle for creating social awareness of working-class citizens.Exhibition catalogs are available at: http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/unfoldingobject -
Les Mastenbrook—Multiple Angles at Once
Picturing the Invisible II/IIIDecember 19, 2013 - February 21, 2014Multiple Angles at Once, the second exhibition in the Picturing the Invisible series, is a posthumous examination of the photography of alumna, Les Mastenbrook ’00. With editorial selectiveness, Mastenbrook’s work illuminates transitional spaces and moments in time, transforming what is easily overlooked into iconic remembrances.Exhibition catalogs are available at: http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/unfoldingobject -
Harold Edgerton—Flash Revelations
Picturing the Invisible I/IIISeptember 6, 2013 - November 8, 2013Picturing the Invisible explores photography as a tool of scientific, personal and social visualization. Flash Revelations, the first of three exhibitions in the series, highlights the celebrated life work of Harold Edgerton. Inventor, engineer, MIT professor, and explorer, Edgerton pioneered the use of high-speed, strobe-photography to arrest movement and capture on film things that were once impossible to see. -
Michael Oatman—Another Fine Mess
Collage at 100 III/IIIApril 1 - June 16, 2013Another Fine Mess examines celebrated contemporary artist Michael Oatman's encyclopedic approach to art making. Spanning three decades, the show assembles a selection of the artist's densely accumulative works, ranging from early pivotal pieces to his monumental collages, site-specific installation and recent work made for the final exhibition in the Collage at 100 series. -
Strange Glue—Collage & Installation
Collage at 100 II/IIIDecember 19, 2012 - February 22, 2013Collage at 100 is a three-part, yearlong exhibition series that celebrates the centennial of the appearance of collage in painting. In its first 100 years, collage has become ubiquitous within contemporary art and culture and its myriad applications have expanded its original definition to become the most inclusive of artistic processes. Strange Glue (Collage & Installation), the second show in the series, looks at twenty-seven artists whose practices push beyond collage's flatness and embrace the physicality of architecture.
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Collage at 100—Virtual Annex: Strange Glue (Traditional and Avant-Garde Collage)
Virtual Annex is a sister exhibition to the Strange Glue (Traditional & Avant-garde Collage) exhibition, which is only viewable online at thompsongallery.blog.com and thompsongallery.csw.org websites. While the analog show focuses on art-historical categories of collage, spanning the last 100 years, and the properties of physical adhesives, the Virtual Annex examines immaterial glues, such as emotional glue, associative glue and conceptual glue to name only a few.Collage at 100 I/IIISeptember 7 - November 20, 2012
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Collage at 100—Strange Glue (Traditional & Avant-Garde Collage)
Collage at 100 I/IIISeptember 7 - November 20, 2012Collage at 100 is a three-part, yearlong exhibition series that celebrates the centennial of the appearance of collage in painting. In its first 100 years, collage has become ubiquitous within contemporary art and culture and its myriad applications have expanded its original definition to become the most inclusive of artistic processes. Strange Glue (Traditional & Avant-garde Collage), the first show in the series, assembles the work of more than 100 contemporary artists as it traces the transition from traditional to avant-garde approaches to papier collé.
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Boundless Ambition—Part Process, Part Product
Part 3
March 30 - June 18, 2012To honor The Cambridge School of Weston's 125th anniversary, the Boundless Ambition series examines the school's convictions about learning and pedagogy. The third of three exhibitions, Part Process, Part Product features seven Cambridge School of Weston Alumni/ae: Austin Eddy '05, Chris Freeman '80, Niho Kozuru '86, Jennifer Langhammer '89, Julie Oppermann '00, Jonas Wood '95 and Kelly Zutrau '06. This final exhibition looks at the kinship between methodology and productivity via the differences between how each artist approaches issues of abstraction within their respective studio practices.Visitors are invited to communicate with the artists—please visit the Thompson Gallery Blog. -
Boundless Ambition—Part Dedication, Part Abandon
Part 2December 15, 2011 - February 16, 2012To honor The Cambridge School of Weston's 125th anniversary, the Boundless Ambition series examines the school's convictions about learning, process and product. The second of three exhibitions in the series, Part Dedication, Part Abandon, presents the school's third faculty/staff biennial. The exhibition showcases the interests and talents of the school's teachers, administrators and staff while exploring the nature of and intention behind our pedagogy.Visitors are invited to communicate with the artists—please visit the Thompson Gallery Blog. -
Boundless Ambition—Part Curiosity, Part Vision
Part I
September 7 - November 9, 2011As part of The Cambridge School of Weston celebration of its 125th anniversary, the Boundless Ambition series examines the school's convictions about learning, process and product. The first of three exhibitions in the series, Part Curiosity, Part Vision, presents the work of five alumni/ae including Darcy Brennan Poor '99, Deborah Goldman '65, Matt Johnson '96, Carmelle Safdie '00, and Dan Wood '88. The show explores creative insights, which prompt conceptual shifts and changes of mind. -
Darryl Lauster—Chronicle
History As MediumPart III: Guerilla CollageMarch 29 - June 25, 2011Darryl Lauster—ChronicleChronicle, examines a trend among contemporary artists to cull history's riches and carnage for images, ideas and content. The series has thus far explored "uncollage" and virtual collage, and now turns its gaze to "guerilla collage" as exemplified by Lauster's appropriationist works. Lauster's art showcases a deep commitment to exploring Americanness through commemoration, memory and its loss, as it blurs the distinction between historical artifacts and the wholesale fabrication of cultural memory.To view Darryl Lauster's artist statement and gallery wall texts, click this link: Darryl Lauster Statement & Didactics
Visitors are invited to communicate with the artist, Darryl Lauster—please visit the Thompson Gallery Blog. -
Fran Forman—ReCollections
History As Medium
Part II: Virtual Collage
December 10, 2010 - March 11, 2011
Fran Forman—ReCollections
ReCollections, examines a trend among contemporary artists to cull history’s riches and carnage for images, ideas and content. Forman's work, which fuses antique photography with digital imaging techniques, explores memory, loss and longing through dreamlike imagery.Visitors are invited to communicate with the artist, Fran Forman—please visit the Thompson Gallery Blog. -
Bo Joseph—Attempts at a Unified Theory
History as Medium
Part I: Uncollage
September 7 - November 10, 2010
Bo Joseph—Attempts at a Unified Theory
Attempts at a Unified Theory, the first exhibition of the three-part series, History as Medium, examines drawings, paintings and sculptures by Bo Joseph. In his visually arresting work, Joseph scavenges and combines imagery from disparate cultures within fields of intuitive and gestural mark-making. Through unpredictable processes of layering and abrading silhouettes and outlines, Joseph’s methods of abstraction strip away references and contexts inviting new meanings.
Visitors are invited to communicate with the artist, Bo Joseph—please visit the Thompson Gallery Blog.
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Fuzzy Logic
Contemporary Painting After a Century of Abstract Art
Part III. Conception-based Abstraction
April 9 - June 17, 2010
Fuzzy Logic
After a century of abstract painting, many contemporary painters infuse overtly conceptual methodology with non-figurative painting practices. Fuzzy Logic examines nonobjective art with conceptual, rule-based strategies by 21 artists: Aljoscha, Kate Beck, Larry Caveney, Amy Stacey Curtis, Nick Gadbois, Mary Gallagher Stout, Brent Hallard, Tom Hollenbeck, Sky Kim, Matthew Metzger, Steven Pearson, Anne Polashenski, Bruce Pollock, Lynda Schlosber, Owen Schuh, Scot Sinclair, Linda Stillman, Craig Stockwell, Grant Vetter, Rachael Wren and Raymond Yeager.
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Alfred DeCredico—Deconstructing Chaos
Contemporary Painting After a Century of Abstract Art
Part II. Intuition-based Abstraction
January 8 - March 12, 2010
Alfred DeCredico—DeConstructing Chaos
The second of three exhibitions looking at Contemporary Painting After a Century of Abstract Art, Deconstructing Chaos presents selected images from the artist's life long body of work. Alfred DeCredico's densely constructed drawings, paintings, and three-dimensional works acknowledge the origins of Abstract Expressionism, while addressing contemporary human issues. Not easily categorized, his work weaves eastern and western perspectival space and is complex with imagery often constructed through the use of non-traditional subtractive methods. The work in this exhibition are rich in unexpected combinations of personal imagery, haunting surrealistic elements, mysterious figuration, poetic allusions, musical references, and cryptic text.
Art New England Review of Deconstructing Chaos
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John Thompson—Namesake
Contemporary Painting After a Century of Abstract Art
Part I. Observation-based Abstraction
October 10 - December 4, 2009
John Thompson—Namesake
The Thompson Gallery is proud to present John Thompson’s Namesake—the first of three exhibitions in a yearlong series that examines Contemporary Painting After a Century of Abstract Art. Thompson’s exhibition juxtaposes select paintings and series print works, which often blur the distinctions between each genre. Thompson’s vibrant and semi-abstract Hinsdale Series, for example, echoes the spirit of Monet’s Water Lilies with strong affinities for Asian calligraphic brushwork despite the limits that conventional wood block printing imposes. Namesake, as the title suggests, showcases the art of one of our community's great advocates of the visual arts, while also acknowledging the initial preoccupation of early abstract artists—who’s pioneering approach to abstraction departed from depicting recognizable, namable objects in favor pushing semblances toward simplified ends.
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Randy Williams—The Uneven Terrain of America's History
Complexities of Social Justice Part III
April 30 - June 15, 2009
The paintings, book constructions, assemblages and installations that make up The Uneven Terrain of America's History examine racism, inclusion and exclusion through the eyes and personal experience of Randy Williams, Professor of Art, Manhattanville College, Purchase, NY.
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Andrew Graham, Daren Young—Tough Love
Complexities of Social Justice Part IIDecember 18, 2008 - February 6, 2009
Tough Love examines gay rights, same sex marriage and anti-gay rhetoric. Tough Love introduces Daren Young, an openly gay artist and activist living in Salt Lake City, Utah, who presents his multimedia "Virtual Wedding" and an autobiographical series of drawings, which chronicles his personal story as he came to acknowledge his sexual identity. Tough Love also welcomes back Andrew Graham (Brooklyn, N. Y.), a 1999 CSW alumnus who creates painted replicas of the placards which Rev. Fred Phelps and the Westboro Baptist Church (Topeka, Kan.) use during their protests at various events including gay pride gatherings, military funerals, and Christian and political gatherings. Juxtaposing Young's work with Graham's raises many questions about civil rights, first amendment rights, the definition of marriage and the "pursuit of happiness," and it dovetails with The Cambridge School of Weston's focus on social justice. -
Linda Bond—Pause
Complexities of Social Justice Part I
September 9 - November 11, 2008
Linda Bond — Pause
Pause explores the "War on Terrorism" through the Gunpowder and Graphite Drawings of Linda Bond
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Sublime Climate III: Symbiosis—Redefining Nature
Sublime Climate—Addressing Global Warming Part III
March 31 - June 10, 2008
Symbiosis—Redefining NatureFinal of three exhibitions during the 2007 - 2008 school year to examine climate change
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Sublime Climate II: Alarm—Projecting Global Change
Sublime Climate—Addressing Global Warming Part II
January 7 - March 14, 2008
Alarm—Projecting Global Change
The second of three exhibitions during the 2007 - 2008 school year to examine climate change
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Sublime Climate I: Subliminal—Recognizing the Global Dilemma
Sublime Climate—Addressing Global Warming Part I
October 20 - December 20, 2007
Subliminal—Recognizing the Global Dilemma
First of three exhibitions during the 2007 - 2008 school year to examine climate change.
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