DeepSummary
In this podcast episode, Dr. Leanne Woolery discusses her pioneering work in art-based perceptual ecology, an interdisciplinary approach to ecological field research that combines art and science. She shares her childhood experiences in connecting with nature through imagination and observation, which laid the foundation for her later work. Woolery explains how art can serve as a medium for understanding and appreciating nature, allowing people to express their sensory experiences and gain a deeper connection with the environment.
Woolery describes the specific techniques she uses in art-based perceptual ecology, such as shadow drawings, sensory mapping, and amplifying artistic data. She emphasizes the importance of giving a voice to marginalized communities through art-based research methods, which can reach a broader audience and promote multimodal learning. Woolery also discusses her recent initiative, Citizen Artist, which aims to empower citizens, especially underrepresented groups, to participate in crowdsourced environmental science research through art-making.
The conversation covers the potential of art-based research methods to contribute to environmental justice, policy change, and community empowerment. Woolery expresses hope that her work will help create a new generation of environmental stewards who will act to conserve and protect the places they love.
Key Episodes Takeaways
- Art-based perceptual ecology is an innovative approach that combines art and science to study ecological change.
- Art can serve as a medium for understanding and appreciating nature, fostering a deeper connection with the environment.
- Art-based research methods can give a voice to marginalized communities and promote multimodal learning.
- Woolery's techniques, such as shadow drawings and sensory mapping, allow for unique ways of observing and recording changes in nature.
- The Citizen Artist initiative aims to empower citizens, especially underrepresented groups, to participate in crowdsourced environmental science research through art-making.
- Woolery's work aims to create a new generation of environmental stewards who will act to conserve and protect the places they love.
- Art-making is seen as a fundamental human need and a way to express our connection with nature.
- Woolery's approach integrates art-based methods with traditional scientific research, using art as a form of data representation.
Top Episodes Quotes
- “The making of art, and it's, I think, embedded in us as human beings to be able to do that, to have a way to communicate what those experiences are in nature.“ by Leanne Woolery
- “The goal, the hope, is that this is producing a new generation of good stewards who will act to conserve and protect the places that we love.“ by Leanne Woolery
- “Being probably one of the first people to bring that idea forward at these kind of meetings. And now we've gained, I'm sitting on a panel with ten other artists, researchers this session also, that are talking about their various ways they use the arts in their ecological research.“ by Leanne Woolery
- “Those voices who haven't been heard in the past have this opportunity to come and have a voice in this methodology.“ by Leanne Woolery
- “So the idea is that we use the arts in the same method I was describing earlier. We collaborate with scientists, so we're working on a similar research question in the field, but we are developing our research through these methodologies of drawing and painting using that as the form of representation, the data to respond to the research, research question.“ by Leanne Woolery
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Breaking Green Ceilings
Sapna Mulki
10/27/20
Dr. Lee Ann Woolery, is an educator, researcher, scholar, and practicing artist of over 30 years. She pioneered Art-Based Perceptual Ecology, an art-based field research method to study ecological change. Dr. Woolery has accomplished a diverse array of actions varying from designing and facilitating arts programming for communities, schools, etc., to working with multicultural and intergenerational constituencies in several states, to developing a multi-disciplined community-based creative arts and mentorship program for inner-city youth of color in Chicago. She is currently the CEO and Research Director for EcoArt Expeditions and Citizen Artist, where she leads field research employing art-based research methods in concert with traditional scientific methods to study ecological systems. You can find more information about her current research and educational programming at http://www.ecoartexpeditions.com
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Topics Discussed:
- The value art therapy
- Techniques in art-based perceptual theory
- Citizen Artistry
- And more!
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