Arbutus Global Middle School -seeing art
Community School Interviews -What do I see when I’m looking at art/ What do animals see?
Arbutus Global Middle School
Featuring thought leaders, community advocates, art teachers, international marine biologist, commercial artists.
| Briony Penn Briony loves nature and her community. She loves gumboot dancing, drawing, and travelling the coast. She has two boys who are 19 and 23. She’s been at various times an activist/politician/artist/writer/professor whatever is most useful at the time to be a voice for these things she loves. She is something like the canary in the mine, in terms of knowing what issues are on the horizon but no one can see. She written about them and drawn them. She’s been involved from the start with the protection of Garry oak meadows, the naming of the Salish Sea, green mapping and creating the Galloping Goose Trail. She is on the vanguard of important community initiatives.Themes:How can art connect people to the natural world, local plants and animals?What is the link between art and activism? How can art help us live more sustainably on the earth? Tegan Forbes View earlier interviews Tegan Forbes is an artist/educator. In 2011 she moved back to the West Coast from New York City where she was part of a collective of artists working with inner city youth designing and painting murals in urban areas. Tegan’s background is based in print media and graphic design. She has taught at The Vancouver Island School of Art, The Alberta College of Art & Design and Concordia University as well as participated in projects at The Banff Centre in Alberta and The Bauhaus University in Weimar Germany. Tegan’s art practice is inspired by street art and it’s role in the community narrative. Tegan lives in Vancouver BC. Themes: Disruption and spontaneity in the everyday, how does art change our reality? Audience involvement, interactive art and community collaboration Looking at art in context to the environment. What is the impact of site specific projects in each landscape? Scale. Does size matter? Marion Cumming Heritage Artist & Community Advocate Members are selected for their significant contributions to their country and to the world beyond. |
Phil Rouget, Marine Biologist View earlier interview
Philippe Rouget presently works as a senior marine biologist for Golder Associates, an international environmental consulting firm, specializing in marine mammals and underwater sound. Most of his work at Golder focuses on protecting marine mammals from human/ industrial activities (offshore oil and gas exploration, marine construction, oil spills, and other development projects). He is presently working on Projects in Greenland, Canadian Arctic, Kazakstan, Africa (Guinea, Kenya, Tanzania, and Mozambique), Australia, and Indonesia.
Themes:
The benefits of a sixth sense
Size matters in how animals perceive their world
Unexplained sensory feats in the animal world