Spring 2018

Coryn Wolk: Environmental Researcher/Writer, EDGE Philly and Physicians for Social Responsibility Philadelphia

Legal Trespass: Exploring the PES Refinery from the Lower Schuylkill River

Paul Farber,PhD: Managing Director, Penn Program in Environmental Humanities

"'As Long as the Creeks and Rivers Flow'": Monument Lab, Historical Memory, and Civic Landscapes in Philadelphia

Joanne Douglas: Schuylkill River & Urban Waters Research Corps Coordinator, Environmental Educator Glen Foerd on the Delaware, Project Director Bartram's Garden High School River Internship. 

Schuylkill Corps: Tools for Outreach, Collaboration and Power Shifting in Environmental Humanities

Sharece Blakney: Graduate Student in the History MA program at Rutgers University-Camden

Equally Free With Myself: Slavery, Manumission, and Indentured Servitude in Kingsessing Township, 1780-1850

Starr Herr-Cardillo: Historic Preservationist/Writer

Bridging the Schuylkill: Cultivating collaboration through shared history

Meg Lemieur: Artist, Environmental Advocate, associated with E.D.G.E.

Bri Barton: Illustrator, Garden Educator, associated with Soil Generation

Water Ways is a collaboratively-drawn series of highly detailed pen and ink illustrations telling the story of water and the effects that the natural gas industry has on Pennsylvania, New Jersey and the surrounding area. Each illustration consists of dozens of small vignettes that highlight people's struggles with companies and our own government as they strive to protect the water and land on which we all survive. 

Sophia Poe, Artist, Family & Community Advocate, Woodland Academy

Marie Alarcon: MultiMedia Artist, 2017 SouthWest Roots Artist in Residence

Althea Baird, Interdisciplinary Artist, 2017 SouthWest Roots Artist in Residence

In 2017, SouthWest Roots Artist Catalyst Resident Artists Marie Alarcon, Althea Baird, Ash Richards, Darlene Devore and Jennifer Turnbull, developed a multidisciplinary project at Bartram’s Gardens with the help of Community Liaison Sophia Poe. The culminating event was a multichannel video installation showcasing Bartram's Garden’s neighbors and friends as they perform everyday acts of art and movement, highlighting the creative power that has long existed in communities, with a focus on the intimate and personal relationships between place and the communities that interact within it, outside of the involvement of institutions.

John Brady: President and CEO, Independence Seaport Museum

Local and Historical Boats of the Delaware River and Bay