Baltimore Artist Lynn Cazabon Spotlights Climate Change In New Exhibition ‘Losing Winter’

BALTIMORE (WJZ) — If you grew up successful Baltimore past you’ve astir apt noticed winters present are nary longer what they utilized to be.

We’ve gone from brainsick snowstorms to immoderate wintertime seasons without immoderate snow. One section creator is putting clime alteration connected display, and utilizing Maryland arsenic her inspiration.

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It whitethorn beryllium 90 degrees outside, but it was wintertime astatine the Maryland Center for History and Culture.

Their caller exhibit, Losing Winter, puts the spotlight connected clime alteration and highlights what wintertime erstwhile looked like. It’s by Baltimore-based creator Lynn Cazabon.

“I gathered memories from radical connected to the play of wintertime from the past,” said Cazabon.

Cazabon said she started collecting memories from radical backmost successful 2018. As portion of the show, radical look successful a snowfall globe video and stock their representation of winter.

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Historical photos, idiosyncratic memories and location videos are connected afloat display, including immoderate acquainted faces.

“You get to spot astir 20 years of Marty Bass and Bob Turk successful each fashion,” said Joe Tropea of the Maryland Center for History and Culture.

WJZ meteorologist Chelsea Ingram said from 2019 to 2020, the authorities lone saw 1.8 inches of snowfall for the full season, compared to 2010 erstwhile Baltimore saw astir 45 inches from a azygous storm.

Cazabon says she’s utilizing her grounds arsenic a lens done which to larn astir the idiosyncratic and taste impacts of clime change.

“What I’m hoping radical volition get retired of the accumulation is that they volition perceive to these memories of wintertime and reconsider what they deliberation astir what they see is mean for wintertime successful Maryland, and however that mightiness person changed implicit the people of their lifetime,” said Cazabon

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Admission is free. The museum’s adjacent “Losing Winter” programming is Thursday, September 16.

CBS Baltimore Staff