EcoQuestions with Mary Meyer

The Metro Phoenix EcoFlora project is making plant science meaningful and open for everyone, while we learn about the biodiversity of our urban desert home. We need your help! A rare plant in a park? A sleeping bobcat in the backyard? What else could be out there? Let’s find out! Using iNaturalist, a free app that can identify plants and animals, you can help document urban biodiversity. Join the Metro Phoenix EcoFlora project to study plants and wildlife in metro Phoenix. Plus, enjoy events, rewards, EcoQuest challenges and more.

Metro Phoenix EcoFlora

Learn more about The Leaf Connection, a new community engagement art project developed by Arizona artist Mary Meyer.

Desert Botanical Garden

Join us for EcoQuestions and learn all about a new community engagement art project developed by Arizona artist Mary Meyer in collaboration with Metro Phoenix EcoFlora.<a href="https://marymeyerstudio.com/artwork/5006046.html" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">The Leaf Connection</a> project invites participants to use iNaturalist to share images of leaves within the urban desert of metro Phoenix. Select observations will be used to inform leaf designs for a large wall installation that carries hundreds of clay leaves that Mary will sculpt by hand. The installation will be mapped out to reflect the Phoenix metropolitan area and illustrate the diversity of plants and people in our desert home.In this session, Mary will share about her personal connection with leaves and their influence on her creative work, guide us through basic leaf botany, and provide information about The Leaf Connection Project. Mary will have examples of her work and there will be an opportunity to learn how to use the iNaturalist app and join the project.Where to Meet: This session will be held in Dorrance Center, number 8 on <a href="https://dbg.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/dbg_venue_trail_map.pdf" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">this map</a>, next to Boppart Courtyard. Please ask admissions for guidance if needed.**Maricopa County now has a RED status for COVID. We are required to follow Desert Botanical Garden's policy and masks will be required indoors.**About Mary: Mary Meyer examines our human connection with nature and the environment using ceramic sculpture and mixed media wall installations. The work is driven by her interest in ecology and the myriad similarities between human and botanical anatomy. Arizona exhibitions include the Phoenix Art Museum, Tucson Museum of Art, Sky Harbor International Airport, and Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum which featured her 2019 solo exhibition Biophilia. Meyer is a recent Artist in Residence at Tempe Center for the Arts, and one of 12 artists selected to take part in the Phoenix Institute of Contemporary Art (PhICA)Trajectory Print Project. Other awards include the Pat Mutterer Memorial Award presented at the 2020 Arizona Biennial (Tucson Museum of Art), the Night Bloom Grant (Museum of Contemporary Art Tucson)and the Contemporary Forum Artist Grant (Phoenix Art Museum). She has served as a Faculty Associate at Arizona State University and Scottsdale Community College, and teaches workshops for learning programs through Scottsdale Arts. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Arizona State University, and a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Arizona where she received the MFA Fellowship. Meyer lives and works in Gold Canyon, AZ and is an active member of the Metro Phoenix art community. Her work is represented in public and private collections in the US and internationally.Visit her website: <a href="https://www.marymeyerstudio.com" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">www.marymeyerstudio.com</a>Follow on Instagram: @marymeyerstudio, @the.leaf.connectionThis session coordinates with the <a href="https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/unfamiliar-pollinators" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"></a>July EcoQuest for the <a href="https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/metro-phoenix-ecoflora" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Metro Phoenix EcoFlora</a>. This month, we're supporting The Leaf Connection Project.

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