Rewilding New York City with Creature Conserve!

A monthly conversation examining creatures, ecology, writing, film, music, art, science and pop culture, using three primary mediums: doodles, writing, and speech. Hosted by Juliana, she talks with documentary film makers, musicians and activists leading global protests.

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Creature Conserve comes to visit Conversations with Animals with a conversation on rewilding New York City. Listen in as Juliana joins with artists and activists Heather McMordie, Rachel Frank, and Chloe Bulpin to discuss local efforts at supporting bee and bird populations, oysters as protectors, and the new exhibit they are in together on Governor’s Island. A special treat: come to Swale House between 1-4p on 5/21 to hear Juliana read new poems, take part in a writing workshop, and view all the dynamic artwork on display until November!

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Conversations with Animals is a monthly podcast hosted by Juliana examining our interconnection with nonhuman animal lives. Expect interviews with ecological writers, filmmakers, vegan chefs, animal-related spaces, artists, and more! Each month, a fresh companion newsletter is published. Subscribe: ⁠⁠⁠www.julianaroth.com/drawinganimals⁠⁠⁠

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Creature Conserve brings artists, writers, and scientists together to foster informed and sustained support for animal conservation. We believe the arts informed by science have the power to direct our attention to the ongoing loss of species and what we can do about it.

Along with being Arts Curator at Creature Conserve, Heather McMordie uses printmaking and puzzles as parallel avenues for exploring the complexities of soil systems. Her work is informed by on-site research experiences conducted on my own and in the company of scientists. Colors, forms, and patterns are informed by field observations. Certain aspects of on-site experience and specific soil processes such as bioturbation or leaf litter decomposition are reflected in the format and puzzle-like nature of the works. Sound elements, physical texture, and mobile elements compliment the visual nature of my prints and provide additional, sensory points of entry into the otherwise obscure world beneath our feet.

A beekeeper and a designer, Chloe Bulpin is currently a NYC-based Illustrator and Surface Designer with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.) in Illustration from Rhode Island School of Design. Since graduating, she has worked as a freelance illustrator for a variety of clients, an editorial designer at a lifestyle media company, and an in-house designer at an international design studio. Outside of work, she has continued my pursuit of learning about sustainability in design with projects like the Bug Banquet, Creature Conserve and volunteering with the World Wildlife Fund.
Rachel Frank is a wildlife care manager at The Wild Bird Fund and artist. She grew up near Big Bone Lick, Kentucky, the birthplace of American paleontology, where large mammoth and other megafauna fossils were found, altering Western views on extinction and evolution. Her work uses sculpture, video, and performance to explore our relationships and shifting perspectives towards natural history, climate change, and non-human species. Frank received her BFA from The Kansas City Art Institute and her MFA from The University of Pennsylvania.

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Juliana is a writer, filmmaker, educator, and performer. She formerly lived as a volunteer on an organic farm in Maine, out of a backpack in the wilderness of Utah’s La Sal Mountains, and worked for the Ecology Center. She was selected as a VIDA Fellow with the Sundress Academy for the Arts for her fiction. Her writing appears in The Breakwater Review, Irish Pages, Los Angeles Review of Books as well as being produced as independent films that she directs. Her web series, The University, was nominated by the International Academy of Web Television for Best Drama Writing and screened at survivor justice nonprofits across the country. She teaches writing at NYU and is an Emerging Writer Fellow at the Center for Fiction.