Crosshatch Center for Art and Ecology envisions communities that are grounded in place: where people connect through stories, music, art, shared work, and food, and where the economy and culture are rooted in restoration of the earth and its people.



Talk to me about grassroots action around place, about decolonizing Michigan, about bioregionalism and ecological agriculture, about equity and access and dismantling institutional oppression, about responding to climate change and peak oil, and about the work of artists in all of the above. Also talk to me about healing the divide between Michigan's urban south and rural north.



I'm also a board member at the Alliance of Artist Communities (http://artistcommunities.org/) interested in how residency programs can foster connection between artists and place, and how art institutions can work with artists at the center of the process.