As part of my residency experience I will be hosting a public conversation with @love_the_everglades co-founder @ottercypress tomorrow 6.21 at 6pm via #zoom Learn more: “Ecological Intimacy: Systems Thinking, Visual Art & ‘The Relationship’ As An Interventionist Strategy of Care:
A Public Conversation with Houston Cypress and M. Carmen Lane”

Friendship is catalytic. At a two spirit gathering in Haudenosaunee territory, artists Houston Cypress and M. Carmen Lane met and became friends. It was also the site where Carmen first learned of Houston’s project, Love The Everglades Movement through a film project and collaboration with Houston’s mother, Renee Manyari. After many years, Carmen is now a guest in Houston’s Miccosukee homelands, the Place of Shimmering Waters. As the inaugural Indigenous Artist Fellow with AIRIE, Carmen will join Houston in a here and now public conversation in friendship and curiosity about their learnings from being present with the Everglades during their June residency–rooted in love, friendship and the necessity of an art practice as both intervention and decolonial strategy for change. Register via @eventbrite or join the #airie Facebook event page for the link. We’re are both looking forward to be in dialogue and learning more from one another.