UPCOMING EVENTS

Ruth will share intimate conversations with a girdled tree, whose bark has been circumferentially removed as part of an effort to prevent forest fires. Through these exchanges she will reflect on how to touch and be touched by a tree in the forest, the power of fire, the legacy of settler colonialism, and the ongoing ecological degradation of our times.

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Artist's Biography
Ruth Wallen, www.ruthwallen.net, is a multi-media artist and writer whose work is dedicated to encouraging dialogue around ecological and social justice. For over a decade she has been bearing witness with trees dying because of urbanization, globalization, in the form of introduced species, and climate change in all its guises, including drought, bark beetles and fire.