about

about

Lisa (she/her/hers) is a multidisciplinary artist, teacher, and student of Nature currently residing on Canarsie Munsee-Lenape land (also known as Brooklyn, NY). She originally hails from Georgia (the traditional, unceded land of the Muscogee Nation), where she grew up in small towns across the state. Her work explores the intersection of the arts and Nature, and she takes particular interest in the connection we have to the other-than-human world as well as the interconnectedness of communities around the world. 

Lisa is the founder of Earth Stories Initiative, a platform that uses storytelling, education, and advocacy to connect young children living in cities to the natural world. She was an artist-in-residence with The Arctic Circle Residency in the international territory of Svalbard, Norway in April 2022. She was a 2018 recipient of the Voices of the Wilderness Artist Residency through the USDA Forest Service and the US Fish and Wildlife Service in Alaska. Lisa is currently an ensemble member with Spellbound Theatre and teaches with Brooklyn Forest School in Prospect Park and Central Park in NYC. Lisa received her Nature-Based Education Teacher Certification from ERAFANS and completed CUNY SPS’s Childhood Development Associate program in partnership with the New York Early Childhood Professional Development Institute. She holds an MFA in Acting from the American Conservatory Theater and a BFA in Theatre Performance from the University of Evansville.


 

features

For the closing of Pat Naldi’s solo exhibition The End of Reference at Tension Fine Art https://www.tensionfineart.co.uk/current-exhibition/ Lisa was invited to present her work Fragments from the Arctic and join in conversation with other artists and scientists focusing on artist engagement with, and approaches to the Arctic which in the words of Canadian Inuit activist Sheila Watt-Cloutier, is the ‘health barometer for the planet’. What happens in the Arctic does not stay in the Arctic; it is the reference point and repository of the past and for all future life on Earth. Other guest speakers included Isabelle Gapp and Sarah Gerats. May 2023.

 

Lisa speaking at Brooklyn Acting Lab’s monthly Creative Conversations series about her recent digital work Fragments from the Arctic: A Journal of Meditations on Grief. February 2023.

Listen to Lisa speak about some of her work in these two podcasts.