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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
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
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
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 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
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
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,...
Field Station: Art-Science in the White Mountains, November 2022 – February 2023
The exhibition Field Station: Art-Science in the White Mountains was organized by Museum Director Meghan Doherty and runs from November 19, 2022 – February 11, 2023, with an opening reception on November 19th. Long a site of collaborative research for scientists, for...
Art + Nature Walks at Lardner’s Point Park, August – September 2022
This summer I am reprising the series of art and nature walks I created with Mural Arts’ TaconyLAB Community Art Center and Riverfront North Partnership as part of my Take Us to the River residency in early 2022. Dates and times are as follows: Plants and Natural...
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
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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