Benthic Macroinvertebrate Water Quality Testing
Benthic Macroinvertebrate Water Quality Testing of Happy Creek in Front Royal, VA for Save Our Streams
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Down to Earth & Up to Us: Community Voices on Environmental Justice
A project by Thomas Stanley, Malik Thomas, and Mark CooleyDeveloped as part of Capital Fringe in partnership with Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens, A National Park Service Site, Washington, DC. Download the ECHOES app and Audio Tour here: https://explore.echoes.xyz/collections/I6IQtcDrExSgBPPE This is a GPS-aided audio tour that seeks […]
Extinction Songs: (Ammospiza maritima nigrescens)
On December 12, 1990, the Dusky Seaside Sparrow was removed from the US endangered species list and declared extinct. After the bird’s last remaining habitat was destroyed during NASA’s development of Cape Canaveral, the last Dusky Seaside Sparrow died in captivity at Disney World’s Discovery […]
Safe
Safe video installation by Beth Hall, Mark Cooley & Celia Cooley | 2012 The popular imagination is heavily invested in a deeply romanticized conception of the maternal. The laborious, messy and complex beauty of living with children is lost in countless sanitized and idealized images […]
Viriditas
The journey of this work began as a way to connect and to develop an understanding of the relationship with various plants and their affinity for our human bodily systems. The act of drawing while imbibing each herb began the creative process. This visual transference […]
becoming-Botanical: a post-modern liber herbalis
It’s awesome to be included in this new fascinating book published by Objet-a Creative Studio. We’ve been interested in plant migrations and their near universal human categorization as “invading aliens”. We are interested in recent critiques of some of the fundamental assertions of invasion biology, its beginnings in the cold war, and its baked in cultural ingredients of intolerance, othering, and reliance on a purity vs. polluted paradigm. We explore some of this with the most challenging and dreaded of subjects – none other than “the plant that ate the south” Pueraria montana, or hatefully known as Kudzu!
Migrant Sanctuary: The Four Winds Journal
Check out the Spring/Summer 2019 edition of Four Winds Journal by Orenda Healing International. We have an article about a project we completed in Darmstadt, Germany last year as part of The International Forest Art Centre’s Forest Art Biennial. The article and installation explores attitudes […]
SporaStudios and GreenStudio featured in a new book
We’re honored to be featured in this new amazing book: Field to Palette: Dialogues on Soil and Art in the Anthropocene. edited by Alexandra Toland, Jay Stratton Noller, Gerd Wessolek. CRC Press. Nov. 2018. Link to Google Books Link to Excerpt featuring SporaStudios. Chapter 4, […]
Migrant Sanctuary Garden: The International Forest Art Center, Darmstadt, Germany
A project developed for The International Forest Art Centre, Darmstadt, Germany and presented at The International Forest Art Symposium, and the 9th Forest Art Path exhibition, 2018, by SporaStudios. Exhibition Curated by Sue Spaid and International Forest Art Centre Director Ute Ritschel. Concept Development Early […]
The Bridge Project
A community project exploring the use of art as a way to build bridges across differences in the Shenandoah Valley at a time of national polarization. Organized by Heather Davis and Tammy Ruggiero of United ShenValley Artists and Mark Cooley, Beth Hall, and Celia Cooley […]
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