New Year; New Collaborations. I’m absolutely delighted to be an Artist-in-Residence at Agency Landscape and Planning for the next six months. Like the most productive residencies, this opportunity is an open-ended program in which I collaborate with in-house designers, planners, and landscape architects within the context of their professional practice. The intention is to contribute to Agency’s work in the form of drawings, models/sculptures, proposals, and (I hope) community-driven art installations. I’m excited to expand the expertise I’ve developed while at the Harvard Forest and apply my creative approach to the landscape and planning profession. I feel particularly fortunate to work with Agency in light of their mission-driven practice and their interest in making environmental place-based issues relevant by means of accessible art and design.

Beyond project output, I also look forward to developing a case-study for embedding visual artists within landscape architecture and planning firms as a forward-thinking mode of interdisciplinary design practice. Finally, I am grateful to Agency principals Gina Ford and Brie Hensold for their confidence in my work and their openness to this unconventional creative experiment.