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PODCAST: Extending Ecology on Dartington’s Arts+Ecology podcast

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EXHIBITION: Extending Ecology: Making Meaning with the White Mountains opened at Plymouth State’s Museum of the White Mountains October 7, 2023! View exhibition virtually here.

“By presenting an overview of the two-year long collaboration between ecologist Rich Blundell, artist Rita Leduc, and Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest, the exhibition underlines how deep, intimate engagement with the natural science and creativity of a place can offer and extend insights into more ecological ways of being in the world.”

RESIDENCY: Hubbard Brook Field Station Artist-In-Residence for the Oika Project, Extending Ecology, a collab with Dr. Rich Blundell. To delve deeper, visit the project page on this site and the virtual exhibition page.

COURSE: I have been hard at work writing a new course, Introduction to Environmental Arts, for Rutgers University’s new minor in Creative Expression and the Environment as well as their Core Curriculum topic, Contemporary Global Crises. It began Fall 2023 and has been extremely fulfilling to teach.

MEMBERSHIP: Founded by Harriet and Rob Fraser of Somewhere Nowhere, The Place Collective creates "links between artists, rural communities, academics, and organizations charged with caring for landscapes." I am thrilled to be invited into this deeply interdisciplinary, art-as-research platform.

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.


RECENT PAST (SELECTS)

NEWS SEGMENT: Extending Ecology makes its TV debut on WCVB (1:30-2:50)

PUBLICATIONS: “Keeping the -ing in Extending Ecology,The Place Collective; New Hampshire Business Review interview with curator Meghan Doherty

WORKSHOPS: After a fulfilling Oika Art + Science Leadership workshop this summer at MMA, Rich and I will be delivering similar programming to students at Plymouth State and Syracuse University this Fall.

WORKSHOP: As part of my Oika residency at Maria Mitchell Association, Rich and I are leading an “Oika Art-Science Leadership Workshop” on Monday, 7/10, at 4pm. The time will be spent exploring innovative, whole mind-body alliances between Art and Science to create a new kind of leadership that is accessible and imperative for a beautiful future. Email MMA to register!

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. For more information, visit the website or just book your ferry!

EXHIBITION: Bay Ridge Through an Ecological Lens opens 4/15 at Stand4 Gallery in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. The show is curated by Jennifer McGregor, hosted by ecoartspace, and runs until June 17, 2023.

WORKSHOP + PANEL: Running parallel to Field Station: Art-Science in the White Mountains, Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest is hosting a workshop with leading artists and scientists working at the interface of, well, art and science! This workshop will culminate with an afternoon panel discussion at The Museum of the White Mountains on 1/26.

CONFERENCE: March 17-18, I will be participating in Gregg Henriques’ conference “Consilience: Unifying Knowledge, Orienting Toward Wisdom.” The conference is free, remote, and open to anyone.

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!

WORKSHOP + TALK: In September, I will be joining artist Nancy Lowe and ecologist/collaborator Rich Blundell at the Organization of Biological Field Stations’ annual meeting in Beaver Island, MI, to present a workshop and concurrent session on the expansive potential that artists can offer field stations.

EXHIBITION: Artwork from Extending Ecology will be exhibited near its origin site at Museum of the White Mountains in Plymouth, NH in the exhibition, “Watching the Seasons Change” opening on June 4, 2022. We will be giving a talk about the project on July 12, 5-6:30pm - view the recording here.

EXHIBITION: On June 11, Glasshouse Project presents Laps(e), a solo project by Shanti Grumbine with outdoor installation work by Sarah E. Brook and myself. Join us from 4-7p!

CONFERENCE / WORKSHOP: Rich and I are very excited to bring an Ecology Extended workshop to Art.Earth’s Sentient Performativities conference June 26-30, 2022!

EXHIBITION: I’m pleased to be included in ecoartspace’s group show, Fragile Rainbow: Traversing Habitats, curated by Sue Spaid, at Williamsburg Art and Historical Center, May 7-June 4, 2022.

CONFERENCE: Ecology Extended will be making an appearance at Rutgers’ Climate Transformation conference on May 4, 2022; register here.

EXHIBITION: Upstate Art Weekend at Mohonk Arts: I will be debuting one of my graphite murals at Mohonk Arts in High Falls from August 27-29, 2021. More information at: https://www.upstateartweekend.org/ and Mohonk Arts. (Hyperallergic article here)

PUBLICATION: The Signal House Edition, July 2021. (rrramble’s review here)