25 May Milk Moon Gallery (formerly MiXX): “Rivers Feed the Trees; The Moon Moves the Tides”!
“Rivers Feed the Trees; The Moon Moves the Tides.” The two-part solo exhibit features the work of Meredith Nemirov, in collaboration with American Rivers. May 15th –June 15th, 2025, at Milk Moon Gallery, 307 E Colorado Ave, Telluride, CO.
“The health of our rivers is vital to the future of the Southwest. Our communities, economy, and natural heritage depend on their life-giving waters. We are grateful to Meredith Nemirov and Milk Moon Gallery for their support as we work to protect the Southwest’s last, best rivers – and all they provide – for generations to come.,” said American Rivers.
On June 5th, the First Thursday Art Walk of the summer 2025 season, representatives from American Rivers will be on hand at the newly rebranded gallery along with Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer. She will be reading poems about rivers. A book-signing in the gallery is also planned.
Go here for more about Meredith Nemirov.
Norman MacClean’s “A River Runs Through It,” is now recognized as one of the classic American stories of the 20th century. Its pages record the experiences of a young man who found that life was only a step from art in its beauty of, say, the orchestral flow of a river.
Enter the latest exhibition and the first of the summer season in town: “Rivers Feed the Trees; The Moon Moves the Tides.”
The superb tales in MacClean’s masterpiece express, (in Maclean’s own words), “a little of the love I have for the earth as it goes by.”
Meredith Nemirov’s sentiments exactly when she conceived of the collaboration with one of the nonprofits she has supported for years through her philanthropy in conjunction with the gallery which has regularly put the artist’s extravagant talent on display over the years.
Milk Moon’s inaugural show (as Milk Moon, not MiXX) is a reflection on rivers, their crucial role in healthy environments, and the threats they face as a result of climate change, pollution, damming, and other anthropogenic interventions.
Launched in 2021, Nemirov’s “Rivers Feed the Trees” series is an ongoing body of work that imagines an American West free from drought. In a collaboration spanning over 100 years, Nemirov paints a network of branching, intertwining waterways into the topography of maps from the early 20th and late 19th centuries.
Nurtured by the abundance of rivers and streams, stands of aspen trees sprout and flourish in her re-watered landscapes, standing tall in the face of an uncertain future.
“Rivers” is exhibited in tandem is Nemirov’s new series of nighttime scenes painted in watercolor.
Based on plein air paintings from the foothills and riversides of her Southwest home, the artist reimagines sunny daytime landscapes lit instead by the cool blue glow of the moon in its many phases. Reflected in the paintings’literal transitions from warm daylight to silvery moonlight, the body of work is an ode to the celestial body and its quiet, but vital influence on our earthly home and its bodies of water.
The Halo Moon
Full Moon Rising Among Aspens
Red Mountain Moon
As a whole, Meredith Nemirov’s two-part show is not only a tribute to the timeless cycles of nature, but also a cautionary reminder of the precarious state in which these cycles exist in America the Beautiful today.
Threatened by political forces and careless industrial practices, the health of our planet’s ecosystems and their inhabitants stands uneasily on a knife’s edge. But through collective action and the critical work of organizations like American Rivers, we the people can continue the fight to save our rivers, streams, and the landscapes they nourish before it’s too late.
About American Rivers:
American Rivers is a national conservation organization that works to make every river clean and healthy for people and wildlife.
For more than 50 years, the nonprofit has combined evidence-based solutions with enduring partnerships to safeguard the 3.5 million miles of rivers and streams essential to our nation’s clean drinking water, extraordinary wildlife, and strength of our communities.
Nowhere is this more important than in the Southwest, where drought, rising temperatures, overuse, and habitat destruction threaten our beloved natural places, a $1.7 trillion economy, and the drinking water of 40 million people.
With offices in Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico, American Rivers works to protect healthy rivers, restore damaged rivers, and build a nonpartisan river movement to ensure future generations inherit rivers that are clean, healthy, and free-flowing.
Learn more at AmericanRivers.org.
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