Summer School
Sixteen students from across North America were selected for the inaugural Museum for Future Fossils. For two weeks they travelled, learned and worked together. Here are some images and an overview of the summer school.
Photos by Kirsty Robertson and Camille-Mary Sharp.
June 1, 2019
Land and pedagogy presentation with Dr. Pauline Wakeham
Screening, Diane Borsato, Gems and Minerals
June 2, 2019
Microplastics sampling at Baxter Beach (Sarnia)/Chemical Valley
Pinery Provincial Park to fly the boulder kites
June 3, 2019
Reading circle in the tropical greenhouse (UWO)
Mycology talk with Dr. GregThorn
Fossils talk with Dr. Cameron Tsujita
June 4, 2019
Fatberg presentation with Barry Orr, Sewer Outreach and Control Inspector for the City of London
June 5, 2019
Presentation from Treaty, Lands, and Environment Office, Chippewa of the Thames First Nation
June 6, 2019
Walk to the Museum of Ontario Archeology with Public Studio
June 7, 2019
Bob Janes (Coalition of Museums for Climate Justice)
LOMAA screening of works by: Vanessa Dion Fletcher, Aislinn Thomas, Abedar Kamgari
Opening of graduate exhibition in Artlab
June 8, 2019
Day off
June 9, 2019
Day off/travel to New York
June 10, 2019
Museum tours (self-guided), NYC
June 11, 2019
Plastics workshop with Dr. Heather Davis
Newtown Creek nature walk with Nathan Kensinger
June 12, 2019
Billion Oysters Project (Governor’s Island)
Meeting with highschool students from New York Harbor School
Overflow exhibition opening
June 13, 2019
Mountaindale School tour with artist Tal Beery
