Join the George Eastman Museum and the Erie Canal Museum in discussing the project of one of the Erie Canal 2024 Artists-In-Residence, Clara Riedlinger.
Clara's project focuses on the spiritual history of the Western New York landscape known as the Burned Over District—where the dramatic reshaping of the landscape by the Erie Canal signaled a new era of religious strangeness, philosophical experimentation, and political reinvention whose currents still flow strongly just under the surface of present-day American culture.