Widening the Lens: Sky Visioning

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
• David Alekhuogie: artist in Widening the Lens: Photography, Ecology, and the Contemporary Landscape
• Phoebe Reese: Breathe Project
• Germaine Gooden Patterson: Valley Clean Air Now
• Clara Kitongo: Tree Pittsburgh
• Tina Ndoh: Associate Dean for Public Health Practice, University of Pittsburgh
• Nicole Heller: Associate Curator of Anthropocene Studies at Carnegie Museum of Natural History
• Edith Abeyta: North Braddock artist and community activist

Registration