The Lines We Leave: Ecological Restoration in the Modern Southwest
April 5, 2025
1:00-3:00pm
You are invited to a free, public event in collaboration with the Institute for Applied Ecology on April 5th from 1:00 to 3:00 PM at Strata Gallery. This event will be centered around a series of short “lightning talk” presentations from local ecologists, writers, and artists working in and investigating ecological restoration, urban ecology, and our collective relationships to wildness here in New Mexico. These presentations will be in conversation with Margin, the concurrent exhibition from Albuquerque-based artist Max Sorenson which traces both the organic and human-made lines that we find, follow, and help to draw in our home landscapes.
There is no charge for this event. The presentations will begin at 1:30 PM and last about an hour. Please join us at 1:00 PM to learn more about the work of the Institute for Applied Ecology, enjoy a hands-on seed cleaning activity, and engage with Margin prior to the presentations!
Dr. Sylvan Kaufman is an ecologist, author of a field guide to invasive plants of North America, and President of the Santa Fe chapter of the Native Plant Society of New Mexico.
Hollis Moore is the Southwest Seed Partnership (SWSP) Coordinator at the Institute for Applied Ecology’s Santa Fe office, where she works to increase the availability of genetically diverse, locally sourced native seed for restoration in the Southwest.
Leeanna Torres is a native daughter of the American Southwest, with deep family ties to New Mexico; In addition to being an environmental professional, she is a writer inspired by where the physical landscape reveals and informs our individual explorations with and of the Divine.
Max Sorenson is an Albuquerque-based artist and ecological restorationist and a current Emerging Artist member at Strata Gallery.
Strata Gallery is open from 11am to 5pm Tuesday – Saturday. For more information about Strata Gallery, the current exhibit, and the future schedule of events, please visit the Strata Gallery website and Instagram.
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This project is supported in part by New Mexico Arts, a division of the Department of Cultural Affairs, and by the National Endowment for the Arts.