about me, my work, my collaborators and kin
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.
About
My home and studio is located on the unceded lands of the Massachusett Tribe traditional territory. The Massachusett took their name from the Algonquian term describing the area visible from the Great Hill, now referred to as the Blue Hills. As I look out my studio window I can see Great Blue Hill, reminding me of my ongoing practice to pay respect to the Massachusett people – past, present, and future.
Learn about the Massachusett Tribe on their website
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.
Those beings might be ice, molecules of pigment, narwhales, trees, extinct birdsong, salt marshes, humans, soundwaves, the climate, harbors, scientists, carbon, a river, moths, ghosts, soundwaves, spinach, students, cities…
Mostly I love creating the conditions for unlikely collaborations that are intimate and often unknowing.
What ends up as somewhat unruly emergent assemblages arises out of an experience of place, unfolding as an investigation into the history, ecology, and community of a site, be it a rooftop or city park, a science lab or a commune, a landscape or an observatory.
My practice invites us to step into collective, generative bewilderment.
Exhibitions include: Northern Spark, Minneapolis, MN; Kilroy Metal Ceiling, Brooklyn; Galerie Lucy Mackintosh, Lausanne, Switzerland; Tierra des Explorades, Buenos Aires; and MassMoCA. She has received grants from Creative Capital and Artadia, among others. She coedited a book of essays by 12 authors entitled Far Field: Digital Culture, Climate Change, and the Poles, with Andrea Polli, published in 2012 by Intellect.
She is a cofounder and member of Platform2: Art and Activism (2009-2012), an experimental forum about creative practices at the intersection of social issues. She and Andi Sutton worked together from 2013-2020 with many others as part of the collective Plotform on projects that activated engagement in our local communities around climate activism, citizen science, and water ecologies.
At Massachusetts College of Art and Design she is Professor and Director of the Sustainability Minor. She founded the MassArt Resilient Pigment Library in 2021.