Heaven & Earth VI: As Above, So Below Artist of the day, Friday, June 20th, 2014 Deanna Pindell deannapindell.net/ Water quality, deforestation, habitat, climate change: Deanna Pindell seeks positive, functional solutions to these complex and entangled issues through her sculpture, installation, performative conversations and public art. “We All Share the Same Water” is perhaps her best-known Eco-artwork, a storm-water remediation intervention in a public park in North Carolina. Another extensive project is “The Soil Remembers”, a playful trail of discovery designed for Fort Worden State Park (WA, USA) in collaboration with a team of artists and soils scientists; this project integrated art, science exploration and education, a Microbe Manifesto, seven locations across 400 acres, and included an ongoing website (soilremembers). As a citizen scientist and ecologically-focused artist, she has worked with climate scientists, marine biologists, anthropologists, water-quality ecologists, soils scientists and a variety of community stakeholders. She has been invited to exhibit and give presentations in Australia and Canada as well as nationally (USA). A forthcoming book, the Multi-Species Salon by anthropologist Dr Eben Kirksey, gives an entire chapter to Pindell’s “Thneeds ReSeeds” - a playfully ironic and Seuss-inspired sculptural remediation strategy for a clear-cut forest. Awards include a Puffin Grant and a McColl Center for Visual Art environmental residency. Pindell received her MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts (ecologically-focused public art) from Goddard College, and has taught at University of Washington Tacoma, and Olympic College. She lives with her husband, critters, and conifers in the rural Pacific Northwest, where her family roots run many generations deep.
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