Engage with Nature-Based Solutions

Artists & Interpreters

Art can inspire, educate, encourage self-reflection, and build community cohesion. Artists are key interpreters of our world, helping to contextualize and clarify emotion (such as climate grief), interpret and illuminate science (such as mycorrhizal networks and sea level rise), and encourage action and engagement (through personal or community story). Artists are key participants in the conversation about nature-based solutions and climate.

Each year, we invite a selection of Canadian artists, whose work straddles the science/art divide, to contribute research creation projects. Each artist is asked to create a piece that engages with nature-based solutions, and to present the work to their community. Artist commissions address nature-based solutions through digital visualization, poetry, drawings, sculpture, and photographs. 

2025 Artists

Two artists, Connie Morey (Victoria, British Columbia) and Annabel Howard (Montreal, Quebec), are being supported through commission to produce artworks that address nature-based solutions and climate change in 2025.

Get involved! Connie Morey’s project involves active community participation. Learn more and join in by requesting a listening kit for The Body Listens.

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Ariel Gordon: Forest Bathing & Eco-Anxiety

A tree-focused writing workshop and creative piece that addresses urban canopy cover, city trees, and climate change impacts in urban areas.
#forest #suburban #urban
#creative place-making #mapping & visualization #urban greening
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Marlene Creates & Don McKay: Walking & Memory Mapping

Memory mapping and guided walks for school children at the boreal poetry garden in Portugal Cove, Newfoundland.
#forest #rural #watershed
#creative place-making #mapping & visualization
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Andrea Fritz: Kwetlal Ecosystems

A series of sculptures installed in-situ of vestige Garry Oak Meadow (Kwetlal) ecosystems, with engagement and creation opportunities for children.
#forest #meadow #various landscapes
#creative place-making #Indigenous knowledge #native plant gardening
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Erin Robinsong & Merlin Sheldrake: Return Address

A poet and a mushroom biologist collaborate on a public workshop and poetry chapbook.
#various landscapes
#ecosystem connectivity
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Annabel Howard: Fugitive Moments

A creative place-making project to celebrate urban greening in Montreal.
#urban
#urban greening
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Emrys Damon Miller: Creek Documents

Facilitating citizens in observation, drawings and photographs of a meandering urban creek, from headwaters to the sea.
#forest #parkland #stream #urban
#biodiversity conservation #stream restoration
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Connie Morey: The Body Listens

The Body Listens invites artists and members of the public to participate in a community art project ​that focuses on listening and mending as acts of ecological solidarity and collective healing. 
#various landscapes
#creative place-making
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Colton Hash: Urban Watersheds

An exhibition of interactive, digital artworks that visualize landscape relationships within cities. Visitors experiment and explore how urbanization shapes ecological change.
#urban #watershed
#mapping & visualization
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Rande Cook: Community Gathering

A Kwakwaka'wakw multimedia artist hosted a gathering, feast, and ceremony in Alert Bay, off Vancouver Island.
#various landscapes
#ecosystem connectivity #Indigenous knowledge
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Kirstie McCallum: Cloudwell

A sculpture that provokes reflections on the slowness of hydrological cycles, and a workshop on island ecosystems and waterways.
#various landscapes
#water filtration