Widening the Lens: Groundwork

We: plants, insects, animals, microbes, and people are living from the interdependence of our shared ground, air, and land, this is our landscape. Our landscape that is in a state of emergency and calling us all to listen, act, and imagine.

Activating the exhibition, Widening the Lens: Photography, Ecology, and the Contemporary Landscape as a site for conversation, sharing, vision, and strategy these workshops will bring together, environmental movement builders, researchers, activists, artists, journalists, and you for an afternoon of generative collaboration at the critical intersections of water, land, and air. 

Participants

• Jamil Bey: co-host, President and CEO of the UrbanKind Institute and Pittsburgh Director of City Planning
• Melissa Catanese: Artist in Widening the Lens: Photography, Ecology, and the Contemporary Landscape
• Dara Méndez: Associate Director of the Center for Health Equity, University of Pittsburgh
• Kara Holsopple: Allegheny Front
• Masoud Sayles: Permaculture designer with the Black Environmental Collective
• Adriene Eply Brown: Climate Alliance Psychologist
• Kelly Henderson: Executive Director at Grounded Strategies
• Erica Cochran Hameen: Assistant Professor of Architecture and UDream Program Director at Carnegie Mellon University
• Ebony Lunsford-Evans: Owner Framer Girl Eb
• Richard Stehouwer: Professor of Environmental Soil Science, Penn State University

Registration