Kaitlin Pomerantz
Kaitlin Pomerantz is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, and educator from the Philadelphia area, and has received her BA in Art History from the University of Chicago and MFA in Interdisciplinary Art from Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Pomerantz is also an adjunct professor at University of Penn, PAFA, and Moore College of Art and Design working towards sustainable conditions for academic laborers and students.
Her collection, known as River Prints, demonstrates the ancient technique of marbling with water found in local waterways in the Philadelphia region. Instead of using traditional materials, Pomerantz showcases pollution and human waste in her art in an innovative and resourceful way. The prints were created on paper made from repurposed waste from a recycling center in Northeast Philadelphia. Climate change in some cases can be a very abstract concept that is easy to dismiss as a nonissue. It’s often dismissed as as an issue that won’t be experienced by individuals in this lifetime, but that is simply not the case. In most cases of water pollution, it is not obvious and the chemicals and oils that poison natural waterways are not detectable. From a distance, it may be difficult to see what's on the surface, but Pomerantz wants to make known what exactly is in the water around us.
