Rebecca Schultz
Rebecca Schultz is a multi-disciplinary artist and arts facilitator/educator. Her creative practice includes painting, drawing, printmaking, and collage; participatory installation and public art projects; and performance art.
Mapping Our Watershed is a participatory art and community science project that aims to connect residents with the complex ecology of the Tookany/Tacony-Frankford Watershed in Cheltenham Township, Pennsylvania. Mapping is about creating a visual representation of a place; it is also a process of documenting the relationships and experiences of that place. Local residents will map their experience of the watershed by learning about its interdependent elements and translating their impressions of those elements into art.
Mapping Our Watershed is led by Rebecca Schultz, local artist and friend of CCA. For this project, Rebecca Schultz is collaborating with the Tookany/Tacony Frankford Watershed Partnership (TTF) and Cheltenham Center for the Arts, to co-producing six free, family-friendly workshops, which will take place from May-July 2023. Three workshops will be outdoor experiences at locations throughout the Township incorporating community science and observational art activities; they will be co-led by scientists and educators from TTF, the Department of Earth & Environmental Science at the University of Pennsylvania, and the Patrick Center for Environmental Research at the Academy of Natural Sciences. Each will be followed by a workshop at Cheltenham Center for the Arts where participants will make art using natural materials. Art produced in the workshops will be incorporated into a large mixed media work representing the watershed, which will be displayed at a community celebration in August 2023.
For full details and to register for the workshops click HERE.
Workshop Schedule: Come to any or all that work for you!
Register for Mapping Our Watershed Workshops!
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The Qualities of Water
Saturday, May 6th, 2023, 10am-12pm
Rebecca Schultz and Ryan Neuman (TTF)
Ralph Morgan Park
Capturing Water
Sunday, May 14th, 2023, 2-4:30pm
Rebecca Schultz
Cheltenham Center for the Arts, print studio
Life Beneath our Feet: Learning About Soil
Sunday, June 18th, 2023, 10am-12pm
Rebecca Schultz and Dr. Alain Plante (UPenn)
Renninger Park
The Art of Soil
Monday, June 26th, 2023, 6-8:30pm
Rebecca Schultz
Cheltenham Center for the Arts, painting studio
Plants in our Watershed
Saturday, July 8th, 2023, 10am-12pm
Rebecca Schultz, Gloria Avila, and Noelle Raezer (Academy of Natural Sciences)
Ethel Jordan Park
Course Details
Age Group: All Ages
May 6, May 14, June 18, June 26, & July 8
Time: Varies by date
Tuition: free
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