Oil City to Exhibit "Frackin' Art"

A town in northwestern Pennsylvania named after the Keystone state’s first energy boom will be the site of an art exhibit devoted to fracking.
The Associated Press reports the Graffiti Gallery in Oil City seeks local artists on both sides of the debate to put their creative minds to work on the controversial method of extracting natural gas.
From the AP:

Artist George Cooley says he’s planning to exhibit “Frackin’ Art” at the Graffiti Gallery in Oil City, about 75 miles north of Pittsburgh, starting Oct. 1.
Cooley tells The Derrick newspaper in Oil City that artists should help frame the public debate on fracking, the slang term for hydraulic fracturing,.
Cooley wants artists to create works promoting the practice of injecting chemically laced water into the ground to force gas out of the wells, and works that comment on the potentially negative environmental effects of the practice.

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