We are woven into the fabric of the natural world.
Our relationship with nature is deeply inspiring, intricately interdependent, and critically out of balance. CALL’s work joins forces with people and institutions from many disciplines to create a more just and sustainable world. Collaboration creates strength but it presents many challenges that need to be contemplated and addressed. Join us as architect Marlon Blackwell, Ecological Engineer Dr. Marty Matlock, and artist Mary Miss explore these themes in the context of their own creative and professional practices.
Tickets $250
Tickets are a tax-deductible contribution. All proceeds benefit the further development of CALL’s innovative programs, which bring together artists, scientists, and communities to collaborate on urgent environmental issues including climate, equity, and health.
Each ticket will be entered into a raffle for a signed copy of Blackwell’s book The Architecture of the Ozarks: The Works of Marlon Blackwell.
Marlon Blackwell is an architect and winner of the 2020 AIA Gold Medel. His current work includes a plan in St. Louis that will connect Forest Park and Washington University to downtown and the Gateway Arch to, linking neighborhoods north and south. He is also working on a development in Detroit for an early childhood education center that will be part of a “cradle to career” plan that will repurpose the recently closed Marygrove College campus – the largest philanthropic investment into a Detroit neighborhood in the city’s history. Blackwell joined the board of CIty as Living Laboratory in 2020.
Dr. Marty Matlock is an ecological engineer, professor, and executive director of the University of Arkansas Resiliency Center. His research focuses on the interface of food, water, and community systems. He works with ecologists, engineers, architects, social and political scientists, agricultural scientists, economists, and business leaders to create new understanding and framing of vexing human challenges. Matlock also brings his perspective as Chairman of the Cherokee Nation Environmental Protection Commission.
Mary Miss is an environmental artist and the artistic director of City as Living Laboratory. She is dedicated to creating opportunities for artists to work with scientists and community members to address current social and environmental challenges. In 2009, Miss founded City as Living Laboratory, creating a framework for making issues of sustainability and climate change tangible through the arts. Miss is currently working on two urban scale projects, ‘WaterMarks: an Atlas of Water for the city of Milwaukee’ and ‘Rescuing Tibbetts Brook: One Stitch at a Time.”