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Materials for Mapping Our Watershed: Foraged Clay

Materials for Mapping Our Watershed: Foraged Clay

Another material I am using in the artwork I am creating for Mapping Our Watershed-is natural, foraged clay. I have studied and made ceramics pieces at various points in my life, but the idea of making work from clay I sourced myself significantly increased my...

Mapping Our Watershed: the Qualities of Water

Mapping Our Watershed: the Qualities of Water

On Saturday, May 6th we had perfect weather--sunny, clear, not too hot or too cool--for Mapping Our Watershed's first workshop. We gathered at Ralph Morgan Park, a sliver of land bounding both sides of Tookany Creek, hemmed in by train tracks on one side and a road on...

Mapping Our Watershed: Field Notes from Rock Lane

Mapping Our Watershed: Field Notes from Rock Lane

Today I did my second field visit for Mapping Our Watershed, this time to a section of Tookany Creek that parallels Rock Lane, which runs between Elkins Park and Wyncote in Cheltenham Township. The eastern part of this section of creek is bordered by houses and a...

Materials for Mapping Our Watershed: Natural Pigments

Materials for Mapping Our Watershed: Natural Pigments

To create the artwork for Mapping Our Watershed, I am making materials from plants and soil, mostly collected, harvested, or foraged in the Philadelphia region where I live. I am going to feature these materials in a series of blog posts: first up, pigments. All paint...

Mapping Our Watershed: Field Notes from Renninger Park

Mapping Our Watershed: Field Notes from Renninger Park

Mapping Our Watershed is a project that's ultimately about encouraging people to connect more deeply with the waterways in their community. So a big part of this project is about spending time with the Tookany/Tacony-Frankford watershed in Cheltenham Township. To do...

Mapping Our Watershed: Community Science and Art in Cheltenham Township

Mapping Our Watershed: Community Science and Art in Cheltenham Township

I am excited to announce the launch of Mapping Our Watershed, a community-engaged art and ecology project in Cheltenham Township, Pennsylvania. I began planning this project during my first term in the Confluence MFA program. We were asked to share our “big idea”--the...

Interconnected at Awbury Arboretum, January – February 2023

Interconnected at Awbury Arboretum, January – February 2023

At the beginning of this year, my egg tempera paintings and paper sculptures made on site at Council Rock, in Lorimer Park, were part of Interconnected, an Artessa Alliance group show at Awbury Arboretum. The show featured artwork by Brenda Howell, Colleen Hammond,...

Queer Ecologies at Bartram’s Garden, July – August 2022

Queer Ecologies at Bartram’s Garden, July – August 2022

I created the site-specific work Even Stones Have a Sentience for the Queer Ecologies exhibition, co-sponsored by the William Way LGBT Center and Bartram's Garden. This site-specific work is inspired by my belief that rock queers the binary of what is considered to be...

Every Day is Earth Day

Every Day is Earth Day

Native pollinator plants in my garden, June 2020 As I’m writing this post, President Biden is holding a climate summit. He just announced a commitment to cut greenhouse gas emissions significantly and quickly. This commitment is what’s absolutely needed to respond to...

Science/Art Connections in New Hampshire

Rangeley Schist One, 2021. Oil and acrylic on hemp, 36” x 42” The painting above is part of my newest series of paintings, which is on view at the Abington Art Center through March 13th. This series is really important to me: it’s the first time that that I have made...

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