New York, 8 February 2024
We are pleased to announce the 2024 cohort of artist residents in the Urban Field Station Collaborative Arts Program (UFS Arts) – the 8th year of the program. The 2024 cohort will consist of twelve artists hailing from across the US including Baltimore, New York City, Miami, Springfield (MA), Honolulu, Chicago, Milwaukee, Detroit, Minneapolis/St Paul, and San Juan (PR). Selected from among 100+ applicants, the new resident artists will collaboratively engage with land managers and research teams at the USDA Forest Service, USFS’s Urban Connections Program, the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest, and the International Institute of Tropical Forestry; along with local partners, including the State of Hawaii and NYC Department of Parks and Recreation.
The artists will work in many forms of artistic expression and thematic interest, including in sound art, music composition, muraling, visual art, and community practice art, in thematic areas including climate justice, social justice muraling, forest conservation, and community engagement. In collaboration with the scientists and practitioners, they will explore, interpret, and communicate urban social-ecological systems through their works of art and imagination.
UFS Arts is an artist residency created in collaboration with the USDA Forest Service and The Nature of Cities with a three-part mission of building understanding of and engagement with urban social-ecological systems through arts; facilitating trans-disciplinary collaboration between artists, scientists, and land managers; and curating events and public programs that explore the ideas emerging from these collaborations.
Artists in the 2024 cohort
Climate Justice
Xavier Cortada, Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest
www.cortada.com
Carolyn Lambert, Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest
https://carolynlambert.com/
Laura Nova, New York City Urban Field Station
www.lauranova.com
Roxane Revon, New York City Urban Field Station
www.roxanerevon.com
Reverberation: Sound as Experience (USFS Urban Connections)
James Everest, Minneapolis
http://www.jgeverest.com
William Langford, Detroit
www.WillThePoet.com
Kate Schaffer, Milwaukee
http://www.keschafferart.com
Cesar Almeida, Chicago
https://djantoniocesar.wordpress.com
Urban & Community Forestry
Dirk Joseph, Baltimore
http://stringtheorytheater.com
Mark Johnson, Springfield (MA)
https://www.linkedin.com/in/richard-johnson-479892183
State of Hawaii, forest conservation
Takuma Itoh, Honolulu
http://www.takumaitoh.com
International Institute for Tropical Forestry
Hector Resto, San Juan (PR)
About UFS Arts Residency Program
The Arts Residency Program is a hybrid virtual, community-centered residency program hosted by the USDA Forest Service in partnership with The Nature of Cities. A collaborative transdisciplinary program where artists are paired with natural and or social scientists, land managers, or practitioners to work together, drawing on knowledge from their discipline respectively to explore urban social-ecological systems. Works of art may result, but the aim of this program is to foster transdisciplinary collaboration, mutual understanding, diverse representation, and enhanced communication, above the production of a final work or project.
For more information, Media and Press:
David Maddox
[email protected]
Lindsay Campbell
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To learn more about each artist, and to view their practice and bio visit www.ufsarts.com