Nurture/Nature at Raritan Valley Community College

“Nurture / Nature”, curated by Lauren Rosenthal McManus, is a group exhibition of eight female artists from across the United States. Each of the artists in this exhibition centers her practice in an ethic of interdependence with both biological and...

Wandering: Observations of Our Watershed

I am showing Mapping Our Watershed, the piece I created in collaboration with community members last summer, alongside four new egg tempera paintings made plein air in four local watersheds, in the exhibition WANDERING: Observations of Our Watershed at Fairmount Water...

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 Mainassara I 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...