Some of this was life that felt like work and a lot of this was work that felt like life and I was never really sure which of it was ever even in balance anyway. Sometimes I think time was invented so we don’t explode from it all happening at once.

And thinkpunkgirl? This was the DIY. This was where I worked it out and built it from. Moving on through now – maybe get that life that feels like life and that work that feels like work. This was what I needed to write, I think. Maybe this was the becoming of the mentor I’d wanted to have. Maybe we all only ever teach ourselves. (07.24)

 

Science_Public Health_Engineering [2024]

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Opportunities & Projects  

• 2024 – UMaine Rural Issues Symposium; Submitted: Community Engagement to Understand, Protect and Restore the Bagaduce River Estuary. Team: Bailey Bowden (PSCC); MMA OS; (to also include MCCF; MCHT & Manomet Fisheries)
• FY25 NECASC – SOI accepted; full proposal invited. Project: Centering harvester knowledge and science to enhance mudflat and clam bed resilience to biological and climatic threats. Team: GMRI; UMass Amherst; Manomet Fisheries; MMA
• Two Lanes with the B-sides Cranking (or: History and Heritage along the Roadway)
• 2024 – AGU24 Annual Meeting Session Co-convener – Science and Society
• 2024 – NSF-OCE FUTURE 2024 Workshop – WHOI
• 2024 – Maine Tidal Marsh Restoration Network
• 2023 – Community-Driven Geosciences – AGU & The 2072 Report
• 2022 – We The People – w/  Zenab Bastawala
• 2019 – Rebel Blend Fund Grant – Intersection (Advocacy)
• 2017 – 2018 Armin E. Elsaesser Fellowship – The Mines – Latin America
• 2006 – Robert & Patricia Switzer Foundation Fellowship

Projects Summary  

Writing | Creative & Technical

• Calling the Birds Back Home (2024) – Grist | Imagine 2200 (submitted)
• The WaterWorks (2021- 2023) – evolving the STEM curriculum
• The Arc of the Curve (2019 – 2022) – that N. Florida Gen X childhood
• The Mines | Potosí (2017 – 2018) – history and legacy of mining in Latin America
• TheSpiritLevel (2017) – Stories of Place – [technical | creative storytelling workshop]

Street art | Graphic arts

• 1 in 5 | 1 in 2 (Intersection) (2019 – ongoing) – street art for community engagement around public health, identity, substance use, resource access, safety & stigma.
• all y’all (2015) – Community portraits as exploration of inclusivity (paste-up).
• cityDrift (2014) – Self-Arrest – Installation used open-ended alley to address stigma, addiction and recovery (collaborative paste-up with resource links). [with EAC]
• Art Truck (2013) – visual | interactive 1-night show of street portraits in a non-gallery space. Visitors invited to take images from the show throughout the evening.
• Tag[G]alle[r]y (2013) – Outreach-focused street tag project – images addressed gender identity | inclusivity with links to resources  [with Elective Arts Collaborative]
• 30 days | Half-life (2012 – 2013) – multi-media exploration of street art tags; creation and photographing of tags + video of tag weathering | removal | tagging over.
• Tag[G]alle[r]y (2012) – Outreach-focused street tag project – images addressed cancer treatment | ‘survivor’ narrative with links to resources.

Photo-documentary | Street photography

• BeSpoke (2019) – stock images for The Art of the Bicycle
• [Clark × Salem] (2018) – Image series – urban gardens
• CSA II (2017) – life, work, and the land on Maine farms (Harlow Gallery collaboration).
• StreetGods (2014 – 2017) – Wings, stars and light – that unexpected holy.
• Arcana (2013 – 2016) – Symbolism, street interactions & reflections (Portland).
• Quiet Ones (2013 – 2014) – Window-shop views; watching the city change.
• the girl who (2012 – 2013) – versions of the ‘truth’ of fear and freedom [with EAC]
• Havana (2012) – Images explored contemporary urban culture in Havana, Cuba.
• Portrait (2010 – 2013) – Go for a walk, share a conversation, take a picture or don’t; unlearn time, relearn wandering. Trust that leaving an office was the right thing to do.

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