Art In Nature Walk- Papermaking!

Guided Art in Nature Walks are brought to you by the Environmental Interpretive Center, GISO and the Design Club.

It partnership with the EIC's Papermaking workshops, we plan to host students and community for this unique opportunity. We will be making large paper sheets to be placed in the EIC as a final mural. Students will have a chance to participate in this special papermaking workshop and work alongside an established artist!

This project was made possible by a grant from the Arts Initiative at the University of Michigan awarded to Dr. Jacob Napieralski's, Professor of Geology, project title: Reimagining Environmental Stewardship through People, Plants, and Places.
 

About our Project

The Environmental Interpretive Center and its stakeholders will collaborate with UM Dearborn students and faculty, area schools, and local artist Megan Heeres to create a site specific installation to be displayed at the Center. This installation will be created with handmade paper made from “invasive” or unwanted plants from the UM Dearborn/EIC property and will reflect the community of people working together to make the artwork. 

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Bio

 Megan Heeres’s art practice and professional endeavors have connected into a cooperative way of working with community both inside and outside of the studio. These collaborations engage with place, people, art and plants. She participates in projects locally in Detroit and nationally, most recently at Xenoform Labs in San Francisco and the Broad Art Lab at Michigan State University. Megan has been an artist-in-residence at  the Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and Sciences, the Michele Schara Residency, the Ragdale Foundation, the Santa Fe Art Institute and Women’s International Study Center. She is represented by Matéria Gallery in Detroit, Michigan and has works in many private collections.

She graduated from the Cranbrook Academy of Art with a Master's of Fine Art in 2009 and from the Residential College at the University of Michigan with a Bachelor's of Art in 2002.

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