Westport, CT - MoCA CT is excited to announce ON FIRE: Energy, Climate, Infrastructure, Westport Public Art Collections’ 2025 exhibition at MoCA CT curated by Ive Covaci. This exhibition includes over 50 artworks in a variety of media, and asks how artists from the 1930s to today have envisioned and responded to the interrelationship of energy, infrastructure, and the environment. This fourth annual exhibition is inspired by a series of eight paintings, The Evolution of Heat, created by Ralph Boyer in 1934 for the old Staples High School on Riverside as part of the Public Works of Art Project. This exhibition is accompanied by the Learning Gallery space showcasing WestPAC’s Ford Times Collection of paintings, a remarkable gift received from the Ford Motor Company in 1966. These paintings, each published in reproduction in the pocket-sized consumer magazine, Ford Times, were created by American artists during the 1950s and early 1960s, a period known as the golden age of magazine illustration and American cars, coinciding with the development of the interstate highway system. The selections highlight themes of energy, transportation, and infrastructure, prompting reflection on how the motor industry has shaped our desires and habits, our economy and policies, and our environment.