FORTHCOMING / RECENT SELECTS
RESEARCH: Four 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!
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."
WRITING: I’ve been invited to write a chapter about the scales of my work (personal practice, interpersonal pedagogy, institutional infiltration) 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!
INSTALLATION: Installation of work with/in MacLeish Field Station at Smith College is slotted for Fall 2026! Situated at the meeting point between two watersheds, Zebra Trees and Boundary Lines: Hope Springs Imaginal will investigate liminality, speculate on decomposition, shift scales of relationship, and reach toward new growth. And feature a Zebra Tree appearance! Details forthcoming.
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.
