Peace Dome installed at Lunder Arts Center
Insect ecologist Dr. Amy Mertyl, environmental scientist and artist Dr. Nicole Weber, and interdisciplinary artist Leah Craig worked together to guide cohorts of elementary school students through collaborative STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics) projects resulting in a multi-part art installation, Our Place. Together with students, they explored local ecology and its interconnectedness with human experience, looking closely at ways that habitats in the more-than-human natural world inform architectural design in the built world.
Photo credit: Elise Parker
All images copyright Leah Craig