The LTER arts and humanities working group will host a virtual get-together on Wednesday November 5 at 1pm EST/10am PST for those interested in advancing arts-humanities work within their sites and across the network.
Our November presenter is Todd Gilens, an artist and researcher whose practice bridges field science and public art. A scholar in residence at the Andrews Experimental Forest Long Term Ecological Reflections program in 2011, and a featured artist at the international science conference Resilience 2008, he has utilized labs, ecological field stations, and wilderness areas as art-making spaces, developing his work by learning from and assisting other researchers. Focusing on his experience as an independent artist working in the matrix of public, scientific, and management processes, Todd will present “Reading Forest,” a National Forest Foundation commission installed outside a US Forest Service visitor center near South Lake Tahoe in 2021. For more on Todd’s work see www.toddgilens.com
This is the part of a continuing series of virtual meetings geared toward community building and resource sharing.
If you would like to attend, please use the zoom link here.
If you are interested in staying in the loop for this and future communications from the LTER AH working group, feel free to fill out this form linked here to add your email to our list! For more information, contact Mary Beth Leigh (mbleigh@alaska.edu), Adelaide Dahl (adelaidedahl@ucsb.edu), and Paige Kleindl (pklei007@fiu.edu).
