Workshop:
The Eco Arts Week curator and PUGGs will facilitate a panel discussion between leaders in sustainability and ecology and artists inspired by climate change activism. The panelists will engage in an educational discussion about local water sources and pollution prevention practices surrounding Hudson Valley. The panelists include: Mattew Friday- Associate Professor of Art and Sustainability Fellow at SUNY New Paltz and Riverkeeper watershed educator Sebastian Pillitteri.
*There is a limit of 20 seats in person. RSVP. Remote seats are also available to the public. An online meeting link will be provided three days before the event.
Panelist: Riverkeeper watershed educator, Sebastian Pillitteri
Sebastian is the Community Science Manager at Riverkeeper. Riverkeeper protects and restores the Hudson River from source to sea and safeguards drinking water supplies, through advocacy rooted in community partnerships, science and law. Our Community Science Program organizes people from Westchester to the Adirondacks to take water samples for recreational water quality to help us answer the question: how is the water for swimming? In addition to this program he conducts sampling on the Hudson River Estuary from May to October, and organizes an experiential education course called Source to Estuary that teaches youth where their drinking water comes from, where it goes, and what happens to it along the way. He lives in Kingston.
"We are of this earth and water, and we never stop being a part of it. By caring for our rivers, we are caring for ourselves and each other. Better worlds are possible, but only when we understand our connections to each other, water, and earth." - Sebastian Pillitteri
Panelist: Mattew Friday
Matthew Friday, graduate coordinator for the Department of Art at SUNY New Paltz, is an educator, writer, and transdisciplinary artist whose research focuses on the development of apparatuses that examine and provoke new entanglements of ecology and social systems. Over the past few years, Matthew Friday has spoken internationally about ecology, aesthetics and politics at venues such as NYU, the Rubin Foundation, and Kunsthal Aarhus (Denmark). His essays have appeared in October, the Journal of Modern Craft, the Journal Aesthetics and Protest, the Brooklyn Rail and Art Journal.
Working both collectively and individually, Matthew Friday’s research-based projects have taken up issues of urban ecology and watershed remediation. He is an active member of the ecosystem research and design collective SPURSE. He has exhibited at several venues including the Wave Hill, MassMOCA, the Indianapolis Museum of Art, Grand Arts, White Columns, the Kitchen, Bemis Art Center, Kunsthal Aarhus, and the BMW Guggenheim LAB. His work has been reviewed in October, the New Art Examiner, Dwell and Art Papers and has been included in several catalogs including The Interventionists (MassMOCA) and Experimental Geography (Creative Time/ Independent Curators International). Friday is currently building a floating classroom/houseboat for community exploration and advocacy along the Hudson River.
"When we emerged on land 4 billion years ago, we enclosed the living waters of our world around us. Water moves through our bodies, our communities, and our dreams and it carries with it the shared legacy of our habits. How do we collectively imagine and build new worlds that recognize water as an agent in our lives?" -Mattew Friday"
Panelist: Cathy Law
Cathy is a graduate of Cornell University with degrees in Biology and Geology. She taught science including AP Environmental Science for 25 years at New Paltz high school. There she started the Courtyard Gardens which become an outdoor classroom for hands-on research. An unexpected result of the teaching garden was the number of students that went onto environmental fields of study after working and learning in the garden. Cathy was also an adjunct professor of geology for 10 years at SUNY New Paltz.
Cathy is an emeritus Master Teacher of New York State and has published in the Green Teacher Magazine. She has retired from public school and presently works at Stonecrop Gardens.
“Without education, people unknowingly harm the planet through their actions. Stay informed!” -Cathy Law
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