Noticing Nature
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Join us for a nature walk focusing on identifying wild and cultivated plants along the Riverwalk and Benefit Street led by botanist Hope Leeson, Lecturer in RISD’s History, Philosophy and Social Sciences, and Landscape Architecture departments. Artists Faith Wilding and Harry Gould Harvey will attend to expand on their recent gallery conversation that was inspired by walks through the woods and mystic Hildegard von Bingen.
This outdoor program will happen rain or shine.
Free. Registration required.
Hope Leeson is a botanist with over 30 years of field experience in southern New England. Leeson teaches at the Rhode Island School of Design on various botanical topics in the History, Philosophy and Social Sciences, and Landscape Architecture departments, and is a coordinator of the Rhody Native™ Initiative.
Faith Wilding, a renowned feminist artist, writer, and educator, is a Visiting Scholar in Gender Studies at Brown University’s Pembroke Center. For over four decades her work has remained at the intersections of feminism, social justice, cyberfeminism, biotechnology, radical pedagogy, and eco-feminism. Wilding co-initiated the Feminist Art Programs at California State University and CalArts in the early 1970s, and was a founding member of the feminist art movement in Southern California, chronicled in her book By Our Own Hands. She is often cited for her influential performance piece Waiting (1972)—reimagined in 2007 as Waiting With—and Crocheted Environment (widely referred to as Womb Room).
Harry Gould Harvey IV is an artist and curator whose practices are embedded in community and social justice. His work is featured in Soft Water Hard Stone, the 2021 New Museum Triennial, and he has exhibited at Bureau, NY, Atlanta Contemporary, GA, and GRIN, Providence. In 2020 Harvey and his wife, artist Brittni Ann Harvey, founded the Fall River Museum of Contemporary Art (FR MOCA). The museum “hopes to exist in a perpetual state of experimentation seeking to question how Art institutions can best serve their host communities.”