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Creative Research + Transdisciplinary Collaboration with Ecosystems

Sensing ecosystems, understanding phenomenologies, cultivating relationships that span scales. Outdoors and in, rural and urban, I seek out and collaborate with the idiosyncratic-yet-universal insights waiting to be sensed, spoken, and celebrated.

Artwork + Exhibitions

Extending ecology, letting the light out, water quality-of-life, trees-as-mentors, finding sparkle, what water wants… Art is an inevitable byproduct of the research. From there, exhibitions either grow or connect naturally to external curatorial themes.

Speaking + Writing

Be it presentations, artist talks, panel discussions, guest conversations, podcasts, blogs, or publications, I love sharing and talking shop.

Upcoming chapter: “A Process of Acquaintance: Going Low, Pokey-ing Holes, and Dancing with Dissolution,” Rutledge Press, edited by Dr. David Syring.

Courses + Mentorship

Sometimes, the work culminates into a course. Other times, it’s project-based mentorship. As part of Rutgers University’s Creative Expression and the Environment minor, I lead myself and two other instructors in teaching environmental art and theory to 270 students per semester. Additionally, I am currently mentoring three Research Assistants through Creativity in Conversation: Creative Research as Inquiry, Insight, and Instigator across Rutgers’ Coastal Campus.

Workshops + Experience Curation

Conversational Drawing, Finding Sparkle…I can and have adapted workshops to a wide range of contexts. But also, I often find that workshops can be too “node-like;” experience curation synthesizes contexts and desires to turn ideas into dynamic, unfolding offerings. This includes a current Shimmering Friction Walk collaboration at the University of San Diego as well as Connecting with Trees: Revealing Our Collective Consciousness at Vassar College. See also GROUNDWORK, an interdisciplinary, process-oriented creative research platform.

Dynamic Systems Consulting

Either formally within GROUNDWORK or by wearing the hat elsewhere, I help individuals, teams, and institutions generate ideas, improve resilience, and avoid ossification. I choreograph process rhythms, establish fluidity among working parts, and strategize relationship cultivation. I recognize opportunities for relative order within dynamism, orchestrating energy exchange and transitioning options into action. Examples include participation in climate symposia, task forces, GROUNDWORK: Interdisciplinary Cultivation Unit, and recent consulting for a2ru’s Emerging Creatives.

Relational Leadership

Interspersed invisibly through it all is relational leadership. Listen, absorb, participate, transmit: let’s elegantly, creatively, and kindly recalibrate the round table back toward compassionate, rhizomatic sensibilities.