Timothy Nohe & Charles Ichoku 

November 22 | 3–5 PM | The Peale, Baltimore, MD

As wildfires grow more frequent, more destructive, and more entwined with human settlements, the boundaries between natural disaster and human infrastructure are dissolving. In this public conversation and lecture, climate scientist Dr. Charles Ichoku and interdisciplinary artist Timothy Nohe explore the new era of fire year, where traditional “fire seasons” could collapse especially in regions that are becoming drier into a continuous, climate-fueled threat.

Timothy Nohe, artist and educator, turns his attention to that threshold. Through kinetic sculpture, light, and sound, Nohe investigates fire as both ecological force and social metaphor, asking how we live, remember, and create in a world increasingly shaped by combustion and collapse. His Fire Year, featured in the Industrial Afterglow exhibition, offers a visceral and deeply personal glimpse into fire-driven futures, a perspective informed by his daughter's 2024 evacuation from UCLA due to the Los Angeles fires.

Dr. Ichoku, Director of the GESTAR-II Consortium and a leading researcher working with NASA on global wildfire emissions, brings a planetary perspective: monitoring and modeling fire dynamics from space and airborne platforms. His work captures fire’s massive scales, how it affects the atmosphere, carbon cycles, and climate systems. But it’s at the human interface —where wildland blazes meet urban edges or direct plumes of smoke in continent-spanning whirls — that these planetary patterns hit home.

Together, Ichoku and Nohe will discuss how scientists and artists can collaborate to understand and respond to climate breakdown—not just by charting data or producing images, but by building shared vocabularies of urgency, memory, and repair.

Date: November 22, 2025

Time: 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM

Location: The Peale Museum, Baltimore, MD

Facilitator: Tara Youngborg

Free with registration | Limited to 15 participants

Workshop Description

Did you know the human ear can detect subtler differences in pitch than the eye can in shape or color? In this hands-on artist-led workshop, participants will explore how to transform complex environmental data into compelling sonic compositions using sonification—a method of translating data into sound.

Using real-world sources such as the U.S. Geological Survey’s Water Dashboard, you’ll learn how to pull environmental metrics (like streamflow, rainfall, or temperature data) and translate them into auditory experiences using Processing, a flexible open-source platform for creative coding. Whether you’re an artist, musician, coder, or climate communicator, this workshop offers a new way of sensing the world through sound—revealing patterns, changes, and anomalies our eyes may miss.

No prior coding experience is required—just curiosity, your laptop, and your ears.

What to Bring

• Laptop with Processing software pre-installed

• Spreadsheet software (e.g., Excel, Google Sheets, or Numbers)

• Headphones (bring your own if possible; a limited number will be available to borrow)

• Enthusiasm for working across art, data, and environment

November 21, 2025 | 6:00–7:30 PM

The Peale, Baltimore, MD

Free and open to the public

What does it mean to carry memory through the body? How do artists reckon with reproductive control, ancestral grief, and gendered surveillance in the wake of industrial and technological systems?

This intimate panel brings together six artists from the Industrial Afterglow exhibition whose work delves into the affective and embodied legacies of our time. Through sculpture, installation, performance, and digital media, they illuminate stories of reproductive justice, intergenerational grief, care, and resistance.

Panelists include:

• Danielle d’Amico – creator of speculative reproductive devices that blur the line between medical design and poetic resistance.

• Jena Burchick – whose multi-sensory video work translates the bodily experience of childbirth under clinical surveillance.

• Jenee Mateer – whose AI-generated floral portraits explore femininity, power, and biological abstraction.

• Mariia Usova – whose delicate glass forms infused with bone ash become vessels of grief and remembrance.

• Leah Clare Michaels – whose performance work transforms public cleaning into an act of mourning and memory recovery.

Moderated by curator Liz Faust, this panel will explore how artists use light, ritual, and body-based practice to address systems of control—and imagine otherwise futures rooted in kinship, care, and embodied resilience.

Join us for an evening of thoughtful dialogue on what it means to remember through the body—and to resist through art.

November 21, 2025 | 3:00–5:00 PM

The Peale, Baltimore, MD

Free and open to the public

How do moving images help us make sense of collapse, transformation, and the possible futures that flicker just beyond reach? This special screening event brings together short films and experimental animations by artists featured in Industrial Afterglow—each exploring light, decay, and ecological or emotional afterlives through a cinematic lens.

Featured Artists & Works:

• Alexi Scheiber — Awake/Dreaming
  A lush, hand-drawn animation imagining a future where cities are rewilded, softened by time, moss, and speculative care. Urban structures dissolve into ecosystems in this slow, dreamlike meditation on ecological transformation.

• Tara Youngborg — not a town but a landing page
  A layered audiovisual work that maps the sonic and visual traces of post-industrial landscapes. Blending field recordings with glitch aesthetics, Youngborg’s piece captures the haunted hum of infrastructure in decay.

• Jena Burchick — what it felt like
  A deeply personal video work that translates the experience of giving birth under technological and clinical surveillance into sensory abstraction. Through voice, scan, and visual distortion, Burchick reclaims the narrative of reproductive control.

• Alexandra Garove — Transition System
  A digital animation composed entirely through high-resolution flatbed scans, imagining the architectural ruins of today overtaken by speculative plant life. Garove’s digital dreamscapes blur the line between decay and resurgence.

This screening will be followed by a brief conversation with the artists (in person and remote), offering insight into their process, how they work with light and time as narrative devices, and what it means to film not for documentation—but for transformation.

Online Event | Moderated by Curator Liz Faust

“What grows in the cracks of what we’ve left behind?”

As industrial infrastructures deteriorate and urban environments shift, new ecologies are rising—often overlooked, often fragile, yet full of insight. This virtual panel explores the intersections of environmental memory, rewilded spaces, and speculative ecology through the lens of contemporary art.

Bringing together artists from Industrial Afterglow whose work centers environmental reclamation and ecological imagination, Rewilding Futures investigates how weeds, wetlands, and wildness become teachers, storytellers, and agents of resilience.

Participating Artists:

• Chelsey Barrera & Gracie Horne — co-creators of Balti-MORE Wetlands, a speculative zine mapping Baltimore’s forgotten waterways and flood zones through Indigenous knowledge and environmental justice frameworks.

• Edgar Reyes —  multimedia artist whose photo series explores migration as an ecological shift, documenting the promise of a new future by focusing on how land tells a story of adaptation and resistance through nature's silent and persistent reclamation.

• Alexandra Garove — scanographic animator crafting digital dreamscapes where abandoned architecture is slowly reclaimed by lush, fictional ecosystems.

• Samantha Sethi — sculptor of future ruins in Fossil Futures, imagining the layered imprint of current environmental and technological systems in future geological strata.

• Cathy Cook — photographic storyteller chronicling the haunting stillness of decommissioned vehicles and machines in Life After Decay, capturing industrial stillness as ecological aperture.

Moderated by curator Liz Faust, this conversation will dig into themes such as:

• How artists document and amplify overlooked ecologies

• What it means to “rewild” imagination and urban space

• How archival practice intersects with environmental resilience

• How we hold memory in soil, seed, and speculative form

The panel invites artists, environmental thinkers, educators, and the public to consider what it means to repair, rather than rebuild—and how creative practice can lead us toward more reciprocal relationships with the land and each other.

Free and open to all. Watch it live on Youtube.

“What glows after the system shuts down?”

Join us for an in-depth panel discussion exploring the theme of Residual Light, the first section of Industrial Afterglow. This conversation brings together six exhibiting artists whose work investigates the material, emotional, and ecological aftermath of industrial systems. From analog light sculptures and decaying CRT monitors to sonic cartographies and luminous grids, these artists reimagine technological decay not as an end, but as transformation.

Featured Artists:

• McCoy Chance — sculptural installations using obsolete technologies as vessels of memory and emotional afterlife.

• Tara Youngborg — glitch media and soundwork uncovering the ghostly hum of post-industrial spaces.
  Timothy Nohe — kinetic dioramas simulating climate-driven fire as a residual glow of ecological collapse.

• Jinyoung Koh — exploration of light, color, and imperfect geometry through Sumi ink, watercolor, and acrylic on raw cotton canvas, reflecting perception, identity, spatial experience, and socio-cultural themes of migration, labor, and memory.

• Sue Borchardt — repurposing salvaged furniture, unwanted books, and bioplastics cast in hoarded housewares to illuminate a lifetime of post-industrial consumerism.

• Lynn Cazabon — photographic archives of “weeds” growing in toxic sites, challenging how we define value, resilience, and nature.
  
  

Moderated by curator Liz Faust, the panel will dive into questions of memory, obsolescence, repair, and the aesthetics of leftoverness. What do these residual forms tell us about labor, energy, and the systems we’ve inherited—or abandoned?

This event invites artists, students, scientists, designers, and community members into conversation about what we carry forward from broken systems—and how art can illuminate the ruins not with nostalgia, but with insight and imagination.

At the Peale Museum, 2nd floor