Arbor Institute

10/01/2021

Final Weekend! 🍂🌾 Love Letters to the Earth closes this Sunday Oct 3rd. Don't miss this heartfelt exhibition at the Canyon Gallery featuring BIPOC and Women artists and farmers exploring our reciprocal relationship with the Earth and with each other through poetry, collage, cyanotype, and photography.
Bring your own Love Letter to the Earth to add to the Pollinator's Altar in the center of the gallery

Boulder Library Canyon Gallery Hours
Fri-Sun: 12-5pm

Read more: https://mailchi.mp/arborinstitute/final-weekend-love-letters-to-the-earth-closes-oct-3-life-in-the-plasticene-extended-thru-oct-13436415

09/21/2021

Relaxation remedies tonight - 5pm! Learn all about Lavender with Zephrine Hanson of Hampden Farms, part of FrontLine Farming's Herbal Knowledge Series. Register through this link: https://www.frontlinefarming.org/events/flf-herbal-knowledge-series-peace-lovender-explorations-into-lavender

09/14/2021

About the panelists : Life in the Plasticene Virtual Round Table
Tues Sept. 14 7-8pm MDT
register to attend through link in bio
https://arborinstitute.org/event/plasticene/
David Oonk is a Postdoctoral Researcher at Re-Engineered in the School for the Future of Innovation in Society at Arizona State University’s. Re-Engineered challenges the status quo model of engineering by embedding social justice, peace, and ecological holism into engineering design and decision-making while working on global issues including energy systems, climate change, environmental policy and governance, space systems, and more. Oonk earned his PhD in Technology, Media and Society at CU Boulder with a Graduate Certificate in Science and Energy Policy and served as an Associate Scientist with the Education and Outreach Group at the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences Education Outreach Group (CIRES) while at CU Boulder.
Life in the Plasticene was made possible thanks to generous funding through .
Additional support provided the  Colorado Chapter, , and Institute.

09/14/2021

About the panelists : Life in the Plasticene Virtual Round Table
Tues Sept. 14 7-8pm MDT
register to attend through link in bio
https://arborinstitute.org/event/plasticene/
Patrick Chandler is a PhD candidate at the University of Colorado, Boulder who has fifteen years’ experience working in and developing environmental education, stewardship, and science programs. His current focus is the co-creation of guidelines to help bring together partners from multiple epistemologies to collaborate on projects for a sustainable future, including working with artists and arts organizations to catalyze collective action on social and environmental as piloted through the Art + Science + Action Cohort. Chandler previously served as the education director for the Washed Ashore Project, as the International Coastal Cleanup Coordinator for Alaska and the Special Programs Coordinator for the Center for Alaskan Coastal Studies.
Life in the Plasticene was made possible thanks to generous funding through .
Additional support provided the  Colorado Chapter, , and Institute.

09/14/2021

About the panelists : Life in the Plasticene Virtual Round Table
Tues Sept. 14 7-8pm MDT
register to attend through link in bio
https://arborinstitute.org/event/plasticene/

Kelsi Nagy () teaches environmental ethics at the University of Colorado Boulder and Colorado State University. Nagy received her Ph.D. in Cultural Geography from Oxford University and holds an M.A. in Anthrozoology from Canisius College and an M.A. in Philosophy from Colorado State University. She is the co-editor of Trash Animals: How We Live with Filthy, Feral, Invasive, and Unwanted Species (University of Minnesota Press, 2012), an associate fellow at the Oxford Center for Animal Ethics and a recipient of a Culture and Animals Foundation grant.
Life in the Plasticene was made possible thanks to generous funding through .
Additional support provided the  Colorado Chapter, , and Institute.

09/14/2021

About the panelists : Life in the Plasticene Virtual Round Table
Tues Sept. 14 7-8pm MDT
register to attend through link in bio
https://arborinstitute.org/event/plasticene/

Environmental scientist, educator and author Marcus Eriksen co-founded the 5Gyres] Institute to research plastic pollution in the world’s oceans, and recently co-founded LEAP LAB, a network of science centers committed to building self-reliant communities. He’s led more than 20 expeditions through the 5 Gyres Institute exploring and researching the world’s oceans. His writings and related documentaries chronicle rafting adventures down rivers and across oceans, and highlight his experience as a veteran of war and science. Eriksen also lectures on biophilia and the role of art, science and self-reliance to achieve urban resilience.

Life in the Plasticene was made possible thanks to generous funding through .
Additional support provided the  Colorado Chapter, , and 5Gyres] Institute.

09/14/2021

TONIGHT! Join environmental scientists, artists and educators Marcus Eriksen (with ), Kelsi Nagy, Patrick Chandler and David Oonk Tuesday Sept.14 from 7-8pm MDT in a virtual round table discussion about their work Life in the Plasticene currently on view at the Arbor Institute in Boulder, CO.
You must registee for the link to attend. see link in bio
https://arborinstitute.org/event/plasticene/
Eriksen will share about recent research involving camels in the Middle East an other innovative expeditions and efforts led by 5 Gyres to address plastic pollution in the Ocean as featured in the documentaries The Smog of the Sea and JUNK Raft. 
He and other pioneering plastic pollution researchers call for a radical shift in how we discuss the problem that’s harming life in all environments on Earth — on land, in our rivers, the air, and in the sea.
How did we get here?
Where do we want to go from here?
How can art, ecological science, and storytelling work together address critical environmental issues? 
Join in the conversation this evening to learn more about the interweaving streams of life and plastic and how we can work together to reduce plastics use through compassionate action.
Life in the Plasticene was made possible thanks to generous funding through .
Additional support provided the  Colorado Chaoter, , and Institute.

09/14/2021

🌿 TONIGHT! Artist/Scientist Virtual Round Table on Life in the Plasticene - learn more about the panelists and register for the link at: https://mailchi.mp/arborinstitute/about-the-panelists-life-in-the-plasticene-virtual-round-table-tues-sept-13429403

09/11/2021

🌿 About the Panelists | Life in the Plasticene Virtual Round Table : Tuesday Sept. 14 7-8pm MDT https://mailchi.mp/arborinstitute/about-the-panelists-life-in-the-plasticene-virtual-round-table-tues-sept-14

We are thrilled to have environmental scientist and educator Marcus Eriksen -- co-founder of the 5 Gyres Institute and LEAPLab -- joining Colorado-based researchers and educators Kelsi Nagy, Patrick Chandler, and David Oonk in discussing the interweaving streams of life and plastic worldwide.

Read more about all of the panelists and register to attend through the link!

09/02/2021

Join environmental scientists, artist and educators Marcus Eriksen (with 5Gyres]), Kelsi Nagy (), Patrick Chandler and David Oonk on Tuesday Sept.14 from 7-8pm in a virtual round table discussion about their work in Life in the Plasticene currently on view at the Arbor Institute in Boulder, CO.
Eriksen and other pioneering plastic pollution researchers call for a radical shift in how we discuss the problem that’s harming life in all environments on Earth — on land, in our rivers, in the air, and in the sea.
How did we get here?
Where do we want to go from here?
How can art, ecological science, and storytelling work together address critical environmental issues? 
Learn about the interweaving streams of life and plastics and how we can work together to reduce plastic use through compassionate action.
Register for the link to attend. link in bio

https://arborinstitute.org/event/plasticene/
Life in the Plasticene was created in partnership with Environmental Studies PhD student Patrick Chandler and made possible thanks to generous funding by Community Grant
Additional support provided the  Colorado Chapter, , and 5Gyres] Institute.

08/27/2021

Throughout our country, people are re-assessing how we memorialize our history, especially in regard to racial injustice and conflict. This is an immediate challenge -- and opportunity -- for the people of Boulder. The City's Open Space and Mountain Parks (OSMP) department is considering how to prot...

08/26/2021

TONIGHT - another wonderful workshop offered by FrontLine Farming 5:30-7:30pm MDT Aug. 26th. Online and limited in person options. $30 supports the instructor and FLF Herbal Knowledge series. Scholarships available - no one is ever turned away.

Learn the fundamentals of growing a bounty of medicinal herbs in your own back yard or patio on a shoe string budget! In this class, we will be covering the basics of seeding indoors and outdoors, propagation, rooting, soil health and herbs that grow well in gardens in Colorado.

Join us tomorrow evening to learn the fundamentals of growing a bounty of medicinal herbs in your own back yard or patio on a shoe string budget!

08/07/2021

Ok, now we have all the feels too. ❤️

08/06/2021

The incomparable blessing us with her love, wisdom heART and truth during the artist talk in front of the Pollinators Altar in the center of the gallery. ❤️❤️❤️

Check out her piece incorporating sound, photography and poetry in collaboration with the Montbello Spiral Garden in the Canyon Galkery during open hours at the

08/06/2021

More pics from the opening reception for ‘s collaboration Love Letters to the Earth
Austine Luce with others from the Montbello Spiral Garden community and
Marissa Pulaski and Nick DiDomenico with .farm / talk with Zephrine Hanson of and her son Alexander
- Zephrine with her photography and poetry created in collaboration with Franklin Cruz
Love Letters to the Earth is on view through Oct 3 at the Boulder Public Library Canton Gallery

08/06/2021

Love Letters to the Earth is up! Zephrine Hanson with and JaSon Auguste with feeling the love. On view Aug 5 - Oct 3 at Canyon Gallery.
Big love to all the artists and farmers for creating such beautiful and powerful work and to the magical human that is Franklin Cruz for bringing everyone together.
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07/29/2021

Tonight! Join us from 5-8pm at the Arbor Institute to celebrate the opening of Life in the Plasticene at the Arbor Institute with guest curator Patrick Chandler.
Life in the Plasticene integrates art, ecological science and storytelling to explore the merging streams of life and plastic worldwide. From microplastics in Colorado streams to cattle foraging for food amongst the plastic waste in India, the exhibition asks: “how did we get here and where do we go from here?”
The installation features photography, films, artifacts, and interviews by environmental scientist and educator Marcus Eriksen, environmental ethics researcher Kesli Nagy, artist, filmmaker, and photographer Chris Jordan, and art/science researchers and NeST Fellows Patrick Chandler and David Oonk.
Life in the Plasticene was curated in partnership with CU Boulder Environmental Studies PhD student and CIRES Graduate Assistant Patrick Chandler and made possible through a Community Grant.
Additional support provided by , , and .

07/24/2021

OPENING(s) ALERT 🌿🌿 TWO new exhibitions developed through the Arbor Institute coming up in the next two weeks exploring our relationship with the Earth through diverse lenses. Mark your calendars!

JULY 29th 5-8pm : Life in the Plasticene (Arbor Institute)

AUG 5th 5-7pm : Love Letters to the Earth (Boulder Public Library Canyon Gallery)

read more at the link: https://mailchi.mp/arborinstitute/july-29-life-in-the-plasticene-aug-5-love-letters-to-the-earth