BARBARA MCMICHAEL: Responding to environmental change

I've been perusing an intriguing exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with a Northwest exhibit funded by the National Endowment for the Arts. "Critical Messages" focuses on eight environmental themes and features the work of 26 contemporary Northwest artists.

The catalogue features essays by Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer William Dietrich and Sarah Clark-Langager, director of the Western Gallery at Western Washington University.