Summer School
London and Toronto, ON, and New York City,
June 1-June 14, 2019
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.
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
- MoMA Salon 32: Plastics
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
Photos by Kirsty Robertson and Camille-Mary Sharp.
