I am honored to announce I am a recipient of the Greater Columbus Arts Council’s (GCAC) new Artist Projects grant. This is the first grant in which community members reviewed and scored applications. 

The $10,000 grant will support my new series The Wildflower Project. This body of work explores themes of nature, extinction, family narratives, and feminist movements in science through a collection
of botanical plant ephemera assembled by my maternal grandmother, Dolores Lad, between 1983 and 1996. Her collection includes mounted botanical specimens, loose-pressed flowers between old newspapers, 35 mm Kodachrome slides of wildflowers, and meticulous journals documenting her observations of plant life. My project, an artist’s book and experimental film installation, considers the legacy of these materials in relation to our looming current climate crisis and family narratives.

Read the press release here.