Ediacaran Encounters: Queer Ecology Talk by David Nasca

 July 5, 2025

In collaboration with MUN’s ecology class, Chicago-based artist and educator David Nasca will be holding a talk at Union House Arts on July 5th at 2:00 pm to discuss his body of work in “queer ecology”, and its relevance to the ecological history of Newfoundland and Labrador. Nasca is currently an artist in residence at Eastern Edge in St. John’s – you can read about his work in Rhea Rollmann’s article for The Independent here.

David Nasca is a Chicago-based visual artist working primarily in sculpture and ceramics. His work draws on living and extinct organisms as a lens for exploring queerness. He studied at Deep Springs College and received a BA from the University of Chicago (2012) and an MFA from Cornell University (2022). He has exhibited in the US and abroad at Watershed Art & Ecology (Chicago), the Centro Cultural del México Contemporáneo (Mexico City) Fuller Craft Museum (MA) and Gallatin Galleries at New York University (NY). Recent residencies include: the Corning Museum of Glass (NY), ACRE (WI), SOMA Mexico (CDMX), and The Banff Centre for The Arts and Culture (AB, Canada). An educator, David is Assistant Professor of Ceramics at College of DuPage.

The event is free to participate in but space is limited.

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