News and Events
May 21 - July 14, 2024
In Flux: Perspectives on Arctic Change, Highfield Hall Museum, Falmouth, MA. Please join me and several Woodwell Climate Research Center Art Science fellows in an exhibition of new work based on Arctic research conducted by Woodwell scientists. Installation art by Aaron Dysart, encaustic art by Georgia Nassikas, photography by Gabrielle Russomagno, a documentary film by Michaela Grill and Karl Lemieux, and maps by Woodwell Senior Geospatial Analyst Greg Fiske will be shown together in the 1st and 2nd-floor galleries.
September 5, 2023
The Quiet & the Mighty at Clark Science Institute, University of Virginia, Charlottesville Virginia. Beginning September 5, 2023, a permanent installation of photographs from the series The Quiet & The Mighty along with portraits of UVA scientists and students working at the Bonanza Creek Longterm Ecological Research Station, north and west of Fairbanks, Alaska will be on display at the University of Virginia’s Clark Science Library in Charlottesville, Virginia.
June 2023
Photographs from the series Sea Islands have been featured on Black Archives a multimedia platform that brings a spotlight to the Black experience.
October 28, 2022
Please join me for the opening of Grounding at the MacLeish Field Station in Whately MA from 11-1 pm. Trail maps available at the location. Grounding is located just off the white trail .75 miles from the trail head.
June 30 - July 9, 2022
I am excited to announce that I have been invited to be an artist in residence at the Bonanza Creek Long Term Ecological Research Station north of Fairbanks, Alaska working amidst climate scientists from Woodwell Climate Research Center in Falmouth, MA on an National Science Foundation grant on Boreal Forest ecology.
March 21, 2022
Please join me for a symposium presentation chronicling my decades long exploration of landscape in a variety of art forms and projects titled, “Landscape, Environment and Design” from 2-4 pm at Smith College, Wright Auditorium, Northampton MA.
October 30, 2021
In the fall of 2019, I was invited by Arts Afield, a Smith College arts initiative, part of the Center for Environment, Ecological Design, and Sustainability CEEDs to create earth work sculptures at the MacLeish Field Station in Whately, Massachusetts. I am excited to announce that The Tell of Grass will officially be open to the public on Saturday October 30, 2021. Please join me at the site from 2-4 pm to view and interact with the project. The installation occupies a 7500 square foot cured grass field, The Tell of Grass is an inquiry into movement, time, and place making. This artwork was made in collaboration with landscape architect Reid Bertone-Johnson and students in his Art & Ecology Studio at Smith College, Northampton, MA.
September 18, 2021
I am excited to announce that Twenty FIve Days in May will be exhibited in Brooklyn Bridge Park for a ten week run beginning on September 18, 2021. It is part of an exhibit titled These Years co-sponsored by the School of Visual Arts and Photoville and is part of many events marking the ten year anniversary of Photoville and their commitment to visual storytelling and community. You can read more about the These Years here and the opening day celebrations here.
September 10, 2021
Join me for a conversation with geoscientist Robert M. DeCanto at the Augusta Savage Gallery at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, MA on September 10, 2021 (time TBA). This conversation is hosted by Zea Mays Printmaking, a printshop in Florence MA dedicated to safer and greener practices in printmaking, as part of their exhibition Rising Waters/Blazing Earth. The exhibit is part of the international effort Extraction: Art on the Edge of the Abyss (recently featured in Orion Magazine) which is a “multimedia, multi-venue, cross-border art intervention which seeks to provoke societal change by exposing and interrogating the negative social and environmental consequences of industrialized natural resource extraction.” Press release.
April 24, 2021
Join me for a panel conversation with my fellow collaborators on our project Living With Worlds as They End. The Artist Panel is hosted by Pennsylvania State University and the Studio for Sustainability and Social Action as a part of their Inaugural Biennial Symposium and Exhibition. Click here for information on the symposium. The to join the event and participate in our panel conversation click here. Listen to a short interview about the project on WVIA Public Media by clicking here.
April 16, 2021
Join me for for the online launch of Dark Mountain Journal Issue No. 19, Requiem that has been created as a memorial by 60+ artists and writers – a bridge between lamentation for a world in crisis and its regeneration. Twenty Five Days in May is featured in the issue. Click here to register for the event. Click here to purchase a copy.
April 7, 2021
Join me in a conversation with Patricia Watts, founder and curator at Ecoartspace, along with my Living With Worlds as They End collaborators to discuss our project and the nature of collaborating across creative disciplines and timezones. Click here for information. Click here to find the link to the event..
January 1, 2021
Living With Worlds as They End, Madelon Art Gallery, East Stroudsburg University, East Stroudsburg, PA. January 1, 2021. Virtual Exhibition. Click here to view the virtual exhibition.
September 21, 2020
Please join me at Noon EST for a webinar conversation with the Arctic Research Consortium of the US (ARCUS) on Bridging Art and Science in the New Arctic a 2019 conference hosted by The University of Virginia to discuss the myriad ways artists partner with scientists to interpret and materialize climate science data and to engage in new collaborations in the field. Click here to watch an archive video of the webinar.
May 19, 2020
Watch my Housed2020 interview with artist and School of Visual Art BFA Photography and Video Chair, Joseph Maida. Housed 2020 is a picture platform initiated by Maida for sharing images that show our individual experiences and responses to the COVID-19 health crisis, which has us housebound around the world. Conceived as a visual community to connect us through photographs and videos while we are apart, this living archive serves as a meditation on the present moment and will become a record, which we can reflect upon to understand where we have been, what we have learned, and how we can move forward, together. Maida, interviews fellow artists as they reflect upon this moment in relation to their work and practices.
May 23, 2020
Join me for a virtual conversation at the MacLeish Field Station in Whately MA, the site of my newest project Ecotones, about the work with sponsors of the project from Smith College Arts Afield, The Center for Environment, Ecological Design and Sustainability (CEEDs), and the MacLeish Field Station.
September 24, 2019
Artist Conversation at the Ruffin Gallery, The University of Virginia, Bridging Science, Art and Community in the New Arctic, sponsored by the National Science Foundation's Navigating the New Arctic program, with additional support from UVA’s Institute for Humanities
and Global Cultures, and Center for Global Inquiry and Innovation. The UVA Environmental Resilience Institute’s Arctic CoLab is organizing the event, with assistance from the Arctic Research Consortium of the U.S. (ARCUS).
August 30 thru October 18, 2019
A Quick and Tragic Thaw, Ruffin Gallery at The University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA. Opening reception Friday August 30, 2019.
July 18-30, 2019
The Weight of Water, Cellini Gallery, Ambler, PA, Reception for artists and panel discussion on toxic water with politicians and activists 6:30 pm.
June 17, 2019
Waterlines: Confluence and Hope through Environmental Communication, A Quick and Tragic Thaw: Pop Up Exhibition, Conference on Communication and Environment, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada