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Creative Conservation Collaborative celebrates art and environmental conservation with the goal of creating site-specific, nature-centric public art that increases awareness and support for conservation efforts.
With the belief that art can change our ways of seeing the environment, we work with communities to create sustainable exhibitions, installations and events that highlight local environmental conservation.

MEET THE TEAM

Nancy Winship Milliken: Co-creator, artist

Nancy has a16 year career in environmental art, creating monumental interventions of cultural and natural histories of place. She thrives in collaborative environments and engages with environmentalists, builders, farmers, engineers, poets and communities. When not in the studio, you will find her in the lake, mountains and fields surrounding their studio, Fieldsong.

Andrew Milliken: Co-creator, conservationist

Andrew is an ecologist who worked for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service with partners for over thirty years conserving habitats in the Lake Champlain Basin, Northeast Region, Atlantic Coast and nationally.  He focuses on the importance of restoring and conserving connected networks of lands and waters for natural and human communities to be  more resilient in the face of climate change.  He also loves being out on or in the lake,coast, mountains and fields.

WHAT WE DO

 We approach every site-specific project through an iterative and collaborative process of research, design and installation. We listen to the design needs of the whole project while working closely with client, state and/or municipal departments. The studio has extensive experience in large project fabrication and installation, mindful of public safety, building codes and material integrity for both indoor and outdoor settings. We gather local materials, a local team of professionals, and create the work locally. The resulting accessible, interactive public art includes native plantings and landscaping to engage with sculptures that are reflective of the local community and environs.

Recent work celebrates nature through art and environmental conservation with the goal of creating site-specific, nature-centric, public art that increases awareness and support for conservation efforts.