PORTRAITS OF PLACE, GRACE FARMS FOUNDATION
Grace Farms Foundation aspires to advance good in the world, providing a peaceful respite and porous platform to experience nature, encounter the arts, pursue justice, foster community, and explore faith. Grace Farms Foundation’s interdisciplinary humanitarian mission is to pursue peace through five initiatives — nature, arts, justice, community, and faith — and Grace Farms, a SANAA-designed site for convening people across sectors. Their stake in the ground is to end modern slavery and gender-based violence, and create more grace and peace in local and global communities. In 2022, I had the honor of creating a work for their collection- a Portrait of Place that captured the land and relationship between the natural and built environment on their site in New Canaan, CT.
L’OCCITANE IN PROVENCE
2021 Collaboration with L’Occtitane en Provence, French luxury skin & body care retailer, in celebration of the Lunar New Year Year of the Tiger.
PUBLIC ART MURAL, AKG MUSEUM
Location: 244 Dewitt Street, Commissioned by the Albright-Knox Art Gallery Public Art Initiative, 2019
The fragmentary silhouettes of local plants featured in Botanical Blueprint were inspired by the cyanotypes—contact prints on sun-sensitive paper—that Buffalo-born and Richmond-based artist Hillary Waters Fayle created in collaboration with visitors to the 25th anniversary edition of Garden Walk Buffalo in July 2019.
NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN
I had the honor of providing artwork for the NYBG educational catalogs for Fall/Winter 2021 and Spring/Summer 2022.
THOREAU SOCIETY & WHAT NATURE KNOWS, BOOK ILLUSTRATION
Images accompany the poems in Chrissa Ventrelle’s second volume of poetry, What Nature Knows, (2021).
This collaboration expanded, post publication and Chrissa and I created work in response to material from Thoreau Farm, birthplace of Henry David Thoreau. The project was part of the Write Connection at Thoreau Farm, a program in partnership with the Thoreau Society.
