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FORTHCOMING / RECENT SELECTS
OPENING: October 17th is the opening of Zebra Trees and Boundary Lines: Hope Springs Imaginal, an installation with/in MacLeish Field Station at Smith College! Situated at the meeting point between two watersheds, the piece investigates liminality, speculates on decomposition, shifts scales of relationship, and reaches toward new growth. All are welcome to the opening event. A formal tour begins at 1:30; at 3:30 we will begin a panel discussion with Gina Siepel and Andrew S. Yang.
RESEARCH: Three incredible Aresty Research Assistants will be accompanying me this coming academic year through “Creativity in Conversation: Creative Research as Ecological Inquiry, Insight, and Instigator” throughout Rutgers’ Coastal Campus. An experiment in shared processes of acquaintance!
WRITING: I’ve been invited to write a chapter about the scales of my work for anthropologist Dr. David Syring’s upcoming volume entitled “Artful Science, Ecological Arts: Transdisciplinary Curiosity for Wayfinding to Futures Worth Living.” A new endeavor and a welcome challenge! Working title: A Process of Acquaintance: Going Low, Pokey-ing Holes, and Dancing with Dissolution.
CONSULTING: I am excited to mentor two teams who have been awarded a2ru’s Challenge Grant through their “Emerging Creatives” program. Winning projects this year focus on the theme of “Rewilding: New Stories of Collective Wellbeing.”
COLLABORATION: An anthropologist, a yogi, a scientist, and an artist walk into a sand bar… transdisciplinary “Shimmering Friction Walks” will expand into the University of San Diego throughout 2026. Invited by Dr. David Syring, the team will integrate humanistic, sensorial, scientific, and creative data to exemplify how effective (eco)system renewal requires staying (and playing) with the transdisciplinary "trouble."
FIELDWORK: Ongoing research with Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest: the “light is getting out” as this work extends into The Preserve at Vassar where Sparkles abound. Research is leading into floodplain forests, “invasive” vines, and “problematic” beavers, among other delights, cultivating conversation around questions of threshold responsibility, system health, and our primal need to breathe life.
PAST SELECTS
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EXHIBITION + PANEL: “Evident Nature” at The Idea Kitchen in Larchmont, NY, “explores artists who approach the natural world as both subject and collaborator—those who reveal hidden systems, document ephemeral moments, or celebrate the resilient life that persists in unexpected places.” On view from February 2 - April 30, 2026. Panel discussion on 4/22!
EXHIBITION: “A Degree of Uncertainty II“ at Stand4 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, November 15-23, 2025. Building off the "Field Marks" of 2023, my piece "Unbounded (Bay Ridge)," considers the Coastline Paradox while playing in the dissolution of infinite, infinitesimal, impossible boundaries, investigating impulses to contain and sensations of heres and nows.
EXHIBITION: “To House a River,” at Glasshouse Project Space, November 1-2, 2025. This show takes place in an architect's dream design which was subsequently flooded, gutted, and gifted to Glasshouse. My piece, "Gestures of Acquaintance (The Abandoned House)," offers an intersection of shared listening and participation wherein boundaries continue to grow porous, breathing permission into an idiosyncratic--yet familiar--relational space of limitless potential.
REVIEW: A thoughtful review from EcoArt Scotland on The Place Collective exhibition, “See, Here, Now: Art in a Time of Urgency.”
EXHIBITION: “See, Here, Now: Art in a Time of Urgency,” an exhibition through The Place Collective, opens April 4 in Grizedale Forest, UK and runs through June 8.
PANEL: Anthropologist David Syring will be moderating a panel at the American Anthropological Association entitled, “Artful Intelligence, Transdisciplinary Curiosity, and the Beautiful Future: A Conversation with Artist Rita Leduc and Ecologist Rich Blundell.” Virtual and live streamed from Tampa, November 20, 2024. Listen here.
TALK: I will be at Syracuse University this September 19th speaking in their Visiting Artist Lecture series to present “The Coming AI Revolution: Artful Intelligence in the Beautiful Future” with Dr. Rich Blundell. Listen to the talk here.
PODCAST: Extending Ecology on Dartington’s Arts+Ecology podcast: Listen here (Apple) or here (show page).
EXHIBIT: Extending Ecology’s Gorge Light Series made an appearance at The Nature of Cities Festival in Berlin from June 4-7, 2024
RESIDENCY + EXHIBITION: The Art of Oika: Nantucket includes artists Dena Haden, Robert Peters, Dakota Lacroix, and myself. The residency began in October 2022 and is culminating with an indoor/outdoor exhibition at The Maria Mitchell Association from June 15 - July 12, 2023, with outdoor work that is on view indefinitely. Broadly, the work involves transcontextual research, ecological restoration, community cultivation, Oika principles, and the insights and ethos of Maria Mitchell.
PUBLICATION: After being blown away by resonance with Nora Bateson’s Warm Data concepts, I am so pleased to have an Oika collaboration included in unpsychology magazine’s 8th issue, “An Anthology of Warm Data.” Free download here or order a hard copy here.
EXHIBITION: Field Station: Art-Science in the White Mountains opens on 11/19 at the Museum of the White Mountains at Plymouth State! It's a rousing roundup of art-sci research at Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest over the past 10 years, exploring collaboration, experimentation, communication, and of course, the forest itself.
WORKSHOP + PANEL: Art-Sci meeting at Hubbard Brook convening thought leaders from around the country, 1/24-1/26, plus a panel discussion at the Museum of the White Mountains - watch recording here!
