Canadian artist Mia Feuer’s solo exhibition Totems of the Anthropocene will be shown Sept 21 through Dec 29, 2019 at the Figge Art Museum in Davenport, IA. Described as a “research driven interdisciplinary sculptor,” her work asks us to ponder the destruction of our natural world through our exploitation of petroleum and by climate change. Based on direct observations from diverse areas of the world including the Alberta tar sands in Canada, the Arctic Circle, and the bayous of Louisiana, Mia Feuer has created works including Rink. In this installation, viewers can take a solo indoor skate around a black petrol rink on checked out hockey skates beneath a suspended mass of upended trees and ravens, highlighting the consequences of mining for petroleum and global warming. The assemblage Totems of the Anthropocene – from which the exhibit title is based – consists of found objects including sleds and vessels formerly containing petroleum, intermingled with hand assembled geodes. A