Arts & Humanities WG

The LTER arts and humanities working group will host the next virtual get-together in our workshop series on April 2 at 3pm EST/12pm PST for those interested in advancing arts-humanities work within their sites and across the network.

Photographer David Bayles and scientist Fred Swanson of Andrews Forest LTER will co-present featuring David’s Old Growth Dialogue project and their collaborative project Following Fire: A Resilient Forest / An Uncertain Future.  Check them out on David’s webpage (https://www.davidpaulbayles.com).  They will also introduce their collaboration with theologian Vince Miller resulting in a book chapter titled “After the fire: Wonder, ecological grief and place-based interdisciplinary research in the Anthropocene” to appear in the forthcoming Routledge Handbook of Health and Environmental Humanities. Fred will briefly introduce the use of a dozen works by four artists, including David, in an exhibit and a talk at Oregon State U on the topic “What have we learned from decades of forest research?” featuring inquiry at Andrews Forest.

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