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Carnegie Museum of Natural History in
Pittsburgh and after its six-month stay in St.
Michaels, the show will travel to the Houston
Museum of Natural Science in Texas.
Burt has mucked through marshes all
over North America, with images in the
exhibit including vistas, textures, and inhabitants
from the Chesapeake Bay, Maine,
Connecticut, Everglades National Park
in Florida, and Saskatchewan, Canada, to
name a few. He is drawn to marshes for
their mystery, for their numerous and rare
birds, and for their beauty.
“No place has the wildness
any more, of the neglected
marsh,” says Burt. “I’ve been
dipping into marshes for some 30
years, leafing through, watching,
and waiting, scanning always
for that rectangle worth hauling
the camera in for so I can try to
snatch some of that beauty, frame
up a slice of it, take it home and
keep it.”
The “Marshes” exhibition
will be on display in galleries in
two of the Museum’s buildings,
connecting the Bay History and
Waterfowling buildings. The exhibition
has been made possible
in part through grants from the
Town Creek Foundation and Verizon
Maryland, who are also supporting
special programming.
Summer and fall at CBMM
will include a number of special
programs related to “Marshes,”
including an artist talk and book
signing by Burt on July 26 and
collaborative programs with Adkins
Arboretum, Environmental
Concern, and University of
Maryland’s Horn Point Laboratory.
Programs related to the exhibit will include lectures,
book signings, tours, day trips, kayak tours, as well as
storytelling and activities for children.
CBMM Curator of Exhibitions Lindsley Rice feels
the exhibit has a broad appeal to residents and visitors to
Maryland’s Eastern Shore and the Chesapeake.
“These photographs are extraordinary,” says Rice.
“They bring us up close to rare and beautiful birds and
plants of the marshes, as well as capturing the feel of
being surrounded by marsh—both earthy and ethereal,
King Rail, (above) taken in 1975, Great Island, Old Lyme, Connecticut.
Salt Marsh In Fog, (below) taken in 2000, Great Bay, near Tuckerton, New Jersey.
with its gorgeous greens and golds. But more fundamentally,
Burt’s photographs capture in sharp detail an exquisite
beauty that anyone can appreciate”
“Marshes: The Disappearing Edens” is on display at
the Museum through December 16, 2007. For more information
and a schedule of programs related to the exhibition,
visit www.cbmm.org or call 410-745-2916.
— Michael Valliant,
Director of Marketing and Media Relations
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