APG Advisory Committee member elin o’Hara slavick was recently profiled by art critic Liz Goldner on the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. For decades, slavick has worked with artifacts scarred by the blasts: melted glass bottles, steel beams, tree bark, and more, transforming them into ghostly images that evoke lingering radiation and the trauma of survival. Her work, collected in After Hiroshima (2013) and held in major institutions worldwide, is currently featured in Memorializing the Hibakusha Experience at Wilmington College, which will travel to Oakland University in 2026. For slavick, the process is both an act of remembrance and a warning, reminding audiences, many of whom are unaware of the bombs’ devastation, that more than 30,000 nuclear weapons still exist today. View the full article at: