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Collective Vigilance: Speaking for the New River
February 3-July 29, 2017
​Turchin Center for the Visual Arts, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC

Media: trash dredged from the New River, digital components, photographs, mural work (multiple contributing artists)
The 320-mile New River begins high in the mountains of northwestern North Carolina, deep in the heart of the Southern Appalachians. The New, as it is affectionately called, actually begins as two rivers, the North Fork in Ashe County and South Fork in Watauga County. The two forks join in Alleghany County and flow north from North Carolina’s Blue Ridge into Virginia and West Virginia. One of the oldest rivers in the world and certainly the oldest in the United States, the headwaters of the New wind more than 100 miles through the Appalachians; the forks join just a few miles south of the North Carolina-Virginia line.  My project partners and I collected hundreds of pounds of trash from the New River to create part of the river on gallery walls, initiating valuable conversations about environmental stewardship, sustainability, and civic engagement in the Appalachian region.


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  • Home
  • Portfolio
    • Loom & Doom
    • UPSIDE DOWN/DOWNSIDE UP
    • Cambodian Marine Life @ FIF Nature Discovery Center
    • Elephants in Cambodia @ FIF Nature Discovery Center
    • Plastic Project
    • Murals
    • Birds of Cambodia @ FIF Nature Discovery Center
    • Tree of Life @ FIF Nature Discovery Center
    • The Elephantine in the Anthropocene
    • From Bangkok to Boone
    • Protecting Pachyderms: From Thailand to Tennessee
    • Collective Vigilance: Speaking for the New River
    • plant life
    • Most Sacred Irritant
    • lepidoptera/earth bones
    • The Precariousness of Mother Earth and the Fragility She Allows the Water to Embody
    • Specie Invasive: Cozza di Zebra
    • how the zebra got his stripes
  • Exhibit History
  • Contact
    • Shop/Commissions
    • CV
    • Media
  • SciFest