I make opportunities to foster an experience of wonder, to commune with the beings that we live with, and to catalyze an urgent response to the ecological story of our time.
Upcoming Events
Mary 16, 2024
The Urban Tree Oracle Gathering with Black Cherry
At the Arnold Arboretum
With Speak for the Trees
The Urban Tree Oracle: Ailanthus (Tree of Heaven) with Matthew Battles
Tuesday August 12 6:30-8:00 (rain date Thursday August 14)
Join us on Tuesday August 12 at the Arnold Arboretum for an evening of movement, drawing, and sounding with Ailanthus, otherwise known as Tree of Heaven. Ailanthus is all around us, flourishing in ruderal worlds usually considered hostile to life: along roads and railways, in sidewalk cement cracks, in abandoned urban lots. Their story is one of complex ecologies with multiple strands that reach into human sensory experience, geopolitical imagination, colonialism, urban decay and revitalization, and so much more.
Past Events
September 2025
The Urban Tree Oracle Gathering with Black Locust
At Blackstone Valley Corridor with the College of Holy Cross
September 2025
The Urban Tree Oracle: Conjuring the absent Hickory on Paggank
Part of Patte Loper’s Laboratory for Other Worlds, NYU Wet Lab, Governor’s Island
Spring 2026
September 25, 2024
The Urban Tree Oracle Gathering with Linden
With Boston University Department of Earth & Environment
December 21, 2024
The Urban Tree Oracle Gathering with Hemlock
on the Winter Solstice, 12/21/24 6pm
At my studio in Hyde Park
register (space is limited to 12)
April 23, 2025
The Urban Tree Oracle Gathering with Sycamore
Wednesday 4/23/25 1:15-2:45pm
At MassArt
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February 2025
The Urban Tree Oracle Gathering with Willow
Via The US Postal Service
registration will open in January
Recently:
Listen:
Stephanie Brown, “The Q is a journal to hold in your hands,” WBUR 5/29/2025 (listen)