Prickly Pear Connection: A tale of tortoises, hares, and cacti Cheyenne Botanic Garden May 10, 2018 5:00-8:00 p.m., during the 2nd Thursday Art Walk Join me, along with the Biodiversity Institute, for a free evening of ecologically true stories and botany-focused drawing activities! No experience necessary - all drawing will be facilitated. Contact the Botanic Gardens…Read more Tortoise and Hare at the Cheyenne Botanic Gardens (5/10/2018)
Tortoise & Hare
You’re invited: 1st major show for “An Ecologically True Story of the Tortoise & Hare”
EXHIBIT: An Ecologically True Story: Rethinking the Fable of the Tortoise and the Hare Click here for exhibit details. I'm delighted to invite you to save the date for the opening of the first major exhibition based on my on-going project: "An Ecologically True Story of the Tortoise and the Hare"! This sciart and science…Read more You’re invited: 1st major show for “An Ecologically True Story of the Tortoise & Hare”
Public presentations
I've been invited to present twice this spring about the Ecologically True Story of the Tortoise and the Hare. And, there's a third big presentation in the works! The first was an Ignite-style talk. I gave this talk as part of a Wyoming Humanities Council/UW Creative Writing MFA partnership to host an "Insights into Legends" event in…Read more Public presentations
Sketchbook Snapshot: illustrating tortoises and hares
"Too much importance cannot be given to drawing, as it is not only an excellent device for securing close observation, but it is also a rapid method of making valuable notes." Inspired by Louis Agassiz, the Harvard Committee of Ten insisted that drawing be an essential part of science education at their institution. While this…Read more Sketchbook Snapshot: illustrating tortoises and hares
Sketchbook Snapshot: Tortoises & Hares in Tanzania
"There's so much of everything! All of it inextricably tangled together [...] To describe is to select – and to select only a microscopic sample from this overwhelming profusion." So wrote travel journalist Michael Frayan in Travels with a Typewriter, one of several books I read during my month-long research trip to East Africa. Frayan distills…Read more Sketchbook Snapshot: Tortoises & Hares in Tanzania
Sketchbook Snapshot: Tortoises and Hares in the Kenyan Highlands
This is my first trip to Kenya, and to Africa more generally. So far, it has been a fascinating blend of rural and urban, English and Swahili (and with it a reminder that learning a language isn't a one-month project), and wildlife, plants, and landscapes utterly unlike anything I've ever seen. I've come to the…Read more Sketchbook Snapshot: Tortoises and Hares in the Kenyan Highlands
Sketchbook Snapshot: Tortoises & Hares
As part of my MFA thesis, I'm working on an art-science project about tortoises and hares and the ecosystems where the two coexist: "The Ecologically True Story of the Tortoise and the Hare." One of those places just happens to be the Sonoran Desert, just south of where my husband grew up. So, while we…Read more Sketchbook Snapshot: Tortoises & Hares
Ecologically True Story 