The studio engages with communities through residencies, lectures, class visits or mentorships.
creative environmental
leadership
The studio is committed to using our artistic platform as an expression of environmental, climate and social change through engagement in community, collaborations, and mentoring creative environmental leaders. We have an open studio inviting artisans, poets, environmentalists, builders, students and farmers, to work together in response to the landscape, people and animals surrounding us. For ten years the studio has offered a studio mentoring opportunity for students to volunteer work in the studio for class credit or obtain a grant from their own institutions. It is open to students in gap/discovery year to graduate studies from different universities and colleges and all concentrations of studies. Participants are self learners, passionate about creating change through the voice of the arts. Selected participants do not need to have any art background or skills. Ideal candidates have collaborative spirit, and are ready to commit to participating in a group project. While the studio is open to year round mentoring, typically a group will gather during a summer based project, find their own housing in Burlington, VT and meet the hour requirements of their own internship or capstone program.
internships
Summer 2020 online program
As creatives during this time of anthropogenic environmental change, we do not have time to be subtle in our work. We can use our creative platform to awaken the public by shining a light on possible creative solutions. Creating opportunities within one’s own community to gather all sectors of society and engage the public on matters pertaining to climate crises (not separate from racial and gender justice) is something the art sector can lead. The message of artisans works better when in conjunction with other disciplines such as science and environmental education. Leadership can happen through both quiet or subtle, and loud and forte measures; by introverts and extroverts, as the world needs both. I have operated the studio as a place of exploration and mentorship for students to expand their creative environmental voice.
Printing field performance
RECENT PROJECTS
Notice of non-discrimination: The studio opens its doors virtually and physically to all beings and embraces all identities of gender, sexual orientation, race, place of birth, religion, age, or disabilities and will not tolerate within the community we develop, discrimination or harassment by other participants. Our goal, to the best of our ability, is to provide a safe and inclusive environment for all within the studio and beyond into our communities.
