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 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 respond to the client and partners’ mission and site design desires with an approach that fulfills the concept within budget and on time. 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.

A team of diverse professional collaborators is gathered as needed for each site-specific project, for example: engineers, welders, builders, poets, ecologists. 

For each project we will research the local natural and cultural histories of place while striving to engage local environmental partners and community members to support and learn about environmental conservation efforts in the area.