March 12, 2026
Contemporary Nature: Tending the Garden, a public symposium that poses questions for our ecological future: How do we tend the garden into co-becoming with the earth and […]
June 19, 2025
This Saturday I’ll be walking, maybe with you, to raise money for the Hoosic River Revival (HRR). If you’ve ever been to MASS MoCA, you’ve seen […]
June 28, 2018
In 2016 I returned to the idea of walking as creative practice, walking as art, and cultivating a wilderness mindset—I put it on hold during 2017 […]
April 22, 2018
Thirteen years ago today, I created a massive installation in RittenHouse Square Park in Philadelphia in honor of Earth Day. I made 100 abaca fiber […]
December 10, 2017
I return to a phrase and a variation of the phrase from Henry David Thoreau’s essay “Walking” (first published in 1862 in The Atlantic), whenever I need to […]
November 6, 2016
I celebrated this year’s equinox installing Here Stands, with friend and collaborator Holly Wren Spaulding. Throughout the long days of walking and hanging abaca fiber paper […]
August 21, 2016
MCLA GALLERY 51 TO EXTEND ‘WAYFINDING: A solo show by Melanie Mowinski NORTH ADAMS, MASS. — Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts (MCLA) will extend the exhibition of Melanie […]
May 27, 2016
I made a tree rubbing yesterday, one of the firsts in a very long time. It’s a rubbing of the word love inscribed into a tree along […]
April 28, 2016
Seven years ago I arrived in Nebraska City in August for an artist residency at the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts. I wanted to […]
March 27, 2016
My time in Venice was ridiculously generative. I embodied the cliche inspiration flowing through me like a turned-on faucet towards the end of my stay. A faucet […]
February 8, 2016
When you arrive in Venice or Denali National Park in Alaska, it’s a “Toto, we are not in Kansas anymore,” kind of a moment. Everything you know […]
November 29, 2015
One of my favorite quotes from Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll is “Alice laughed. ‘There’s no use trying,’ she said. ‘One can’t believe impossible things.’I […]
October 21, 2015
In 2008, I was honored to be chosen to be an artist-in-residence in Denali National Park in Alaska. Denali transformed my understanding of wildness and wilderness. […]
October 15, 2015
What a glorious fall we’ve been having here in the Berkshires. I can’t remember the last time it was this colorful. In honor of this glory, I […]
May 14, 2015
This is a reblog of Holly Wren’s post. Read the original here. More and more I want to move poetry off the page and into public […]
April 7, 2015
Prints in Peculiar Places was a series of special “printstallations” that took place during the 2015 “Sphere” Southern Graphics Council International conference. Working with the City […]