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Mapping Our Watershed Culminating Celebration
I am in the home stretch of creating the final artwork for Mapping Our Watershed. It combines four experiential map pieces I created based on my field visits to the Tookany/Tacony-Frankford Watershed at Renninger Park, Rock Lane, Tookany Creek Park, and High School...
Mapping Our Watershed: Field Notes From the Park(s)
In mid-May and mid-June, I conducted my third and fourth field visits. I first went to Tookany Creek Park, which forms the eastern border of Cheltenham Township; the creek is very wide here, and contained by a wall on one side. I was able to walk across the creek bed,...
Mapping Our Watershed: Capturing Water
Photography by Imrane Djibrine MainassaraI took a break from blogging about Mapping Our Watershed, but it was for a good reason--to complete my MFA with the Confluence MFA program at the University of New Mexico. The experiential maps I created based on my field...
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
Photography by Joseph SimpsonOn 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...
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...
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