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"Liquid Sunshine"

29/1/2016

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PictureMapping as a team effort! January 26 2016
What a treat to spend a day with the class of 2017 graduate students!
 
The students that live year-round at the North Cascades Environmental Learning Center, a field campus tucked in the alpine North Cascades National Park, prepare for a Master in Environmental Education. The program focuses on place-based learning and includes field science, cultural studies, teaching, and nonprofit administration. Passionate about the outdoors and the wilderness that they are immersed in, some graduates will move on to lives in outdoor education. Others will take leadership in conservation and nature programs nurturing the next generation of environmental stewards.

I had a great opportunity to spend time with these students during my creative residency at the center. We had in depth conservations about their studies, their fieldwork, and career aspirations on a daily basis. We also spent a day discussing how field studies, scientific inquiry, and artistic talent can be woven together to explore, quantify, and better understand our natural environment. The group eagerly headed out to the wooded lakeshore to collect data, despite the downpour on a cold, soggy day. And they collaborated to produce artful maps based on their field observations.
 
Animated team discussions, colored pencils, and watercolors turned a gloomy day into “Liquid Sunshine”, a fun, learning time illustrating unique maps. Grounded in field observations each map reflects the curiosity, knowledge, creativity, and sense of humor of the students.

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Creative Hibernation

20/1/2016

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PictureDiablo Lake - January 19 2016

​I am excited to spend time in the Cascades at the North Cascades Environmental Learning Center.
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​I am immersing myself in snowy landscapes for a winter, creative residency.  The center is located on Diablo Lake, the reservoir created behind Diablo Dam on the upper Skagit River.

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The Art of Maps

12/5/2015

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PictureIslandWood, Bainbridge Island - Sketch April 27 2015
In April, I spent 3 wonderful days at IslandWood, a Nature Learning Center on Bainbridge Island.

This is my second year as artist-in-residence on this beautiful campus in the woods working with the
School Overnight Program. IslandWood is literally an environmental classroom in the forest where experiential learning takes place in nature. Students and teachers are immersed in the outdoors from dawn to night using their five senses to discover the environment and connect with it in a personal way.

Every time I visit IslandWood it reminds me of how fortunate I am to spend so much of my time learning in the field. The nature center is a perfect match for what I love doing - combining field work, arts, and sciences while learning.

I facilitated five workshops entitled “The Art of Maps” during this recent residency. Rain or shine, even during a short-lived hailstorm everybody enthusiastically explored, and mapped the beach at historical Blakely Harbor. IslandWood staff, graduate students, docents, chaperones, and 5th and 6th graders made observations, and blended artistic talent and scientific tools to create a map of this special place. Their beautiful maps illustrate the history of the beach and accurately depict the characteristics of the intertidal zone as they learn about the shore environment. But, they also reflect their experience at the beach including the weather that they worked under and the individual discoveries that they made.


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