Host Chris Stafford is joined by ecologist, Michael Gaige, and artist, Elizabeth Webb. The two guests discuss their on-going projects and ways of interpreting the landscape.
Michael Gaige is an independent consulting ecologist based in upstate New York. His work explores the intersection of nature, culture, and history at the landscape level. Michael works with organizations, private landowners, and design teams on park and landscape projects, historical ecology inventories, and conservation planning for natural areas. He wrote detailed historical and landscape inventories for the Oak Spring Garden Foundation main site and its adjacent Rokeby farm. Michael teaches field studies programs for several colleges and universities.
Michael’s website: https://www.knowyourland.com/
Elizabeth M. Webb is an artist and filmmaker based in Atlanta, GA, and was an Interdisciplinary Resident at Oak Spring in 2022. Her work is invested in issues surrounding race and identity, often using the lens of her own family history of migration and racial passing to explore larger, systemic constructs and the renegotiation of their borders. She has screened and exhibited nationally and internationally, and in 2023 received a Ford Foundation JustFilms Development Grant for her forthcoming feature length film, Artificial Horizon.Webb is co-editor with Roberta Uno and Daniela Alvarez of the anthology FUTURE/PRESENT: Arts in a Changing America (Duke University Press, 2024).
Elizabeth’s website:
https://www.elizabethmwebb.com/Current solo exhibit:
a bearing tree is a witness; an oak is an echo on view at the Julie Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art Janurary 23, 2024 - July 7, 2024
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