Future Forests is for the public, for our youth, for politicians and municipal, county and state leaders, land managers, and international thinkers. It is for community engagers, practitioners, and innovators; and for our most innovative next-generation leaders, entrepreneurs and corporations.
We are a growing interdisciplinary coalition of cultural leaders, artists, social anthropologists, scientists, economists, next-generation corporate leaders and land managers, innovators and philanthropists with a shared vision.
From a rigorous melding of art, the humanities and science, we have come together as an inspired population to learn and share ideas. We will take our learning and apply it to change, and to connecting with more of you. This is creativity directed at economic and social transformation processes in science, humanities, economy, ecology and art. Future Forests is inspiring, building capacities and connections, and creating change.
Our founding artists
- Catherine Chalmers: Video Artist
- Rick Chapman: Photographer
- Lesley Chapman**: Performance Artist
- Russell Dudley: Photographer / Program Director, Sierra Nevada College Master of Fine Arts-Interdisciplinary Arts program
- Marisha Farnsworth: Artist/Architect
- William Fox: Poet / Author / Director, Nevada Museum of Art – Center for Art + Environment
- Todd Gilens*: Visual artist
- Mia Hanak: Exhibition Designer/Founder, Millenium Art (a UN-affiliated organization) / Executive Director, Tahoe Public Arts
- Jonathon Keats*, **: Experimental Philosopher / Conceptual Artist / Critic
- Charles Lindsay: Multi-disciplinary artist / Director, SETI Artist-In-Residency program
- Michael and Heather Llewellyn: Photographer / Curators / Exhibition Designer
- John Maddock: Wood Artist / Underground Engine VFX
- Chelsea Mandell: Multimedia Artist
- Annie Sprinkle: Multi-disciplinary Artist
- Beth Stephens: Multi-disciplinary Artist / Chair of Art Program, UC Santa Cruz
- Shirley Watts**: Artist and Curator
Participating artists
- Kim Abeles: Visual Artist
- Alex Adkinson: Musician / Multimedia Artist
- Trevor Allen: Playwright
- Christopher Baldwin: Visual Artist
- John Behrens: Film Maker
- Bjarki Bragason: Visual Artist
- Jean Brennan: Visual and Performance Artist
- Kevin Cooley**: Multi-media Artist
- John Degraf: Film Maker
- Nina Elder*: Visual Artist
- Erin Espelie**: Multi-media Artist
- Andrea Frank: Photographer
- Stuart Ian Frost**: Sculptor
- Jessa Rae Growing Thunder*: Bead Artist
- Jenny Kendler**: Sculptor
- Gunhild Lien: Photographer
- Anna Líndal: Visual Artist
- Katie Mahalic: Film Maker
- Mitch Maher**: Photographer
- Stephen Most: Film Maker
- David Opdyke**: Visual Artist
- Deborah Oropallo**: Visual Artist
- Erika Osborne*: Visual Artist
- Tahiti Pehrson*: Paper Sculptor
- Sasha Petrenko**: Video and Performance Artist
- Ronald Rael: Architect
- Nate Reifke: Visual Artist
- Radu Sava: Film Maker
- Sam Shear**: Visual Artist
- Terry Siddal: Art Director
- Jonathan PJ Smith**: Multi-media Artist
- Jordan Fisher Smith: Writer
- Sara L. Smith: Visual Artist and Arts Educator
- Ethan Turpin**: Multi-media Artist
- Anuj Vaidya: Performance Artist
- Kevin White: Film Maker
- Julie Weitz: Visual Artist
- Cedra Wood*: Visual Artist
* These artists are scheduled to have work in the Forest ⇌ Fire exhibit (2020).
** These artists had work in Natural Discourse at Sagehen (2019).
Individual Supporters
- Teal Brown
- Lynn Campbell: Sierra Nevada Conservancy
- Laura Eliasieh: Interdisciplinary Curator and Historian
- Benny and Laura Fillmore
- Donn Harris: San Francisco Unified School District Executive Director for Creativity and the Arts
- Art Shimamura: Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, UC Berkeley
- Dave Smith
- JD Talasek
- Allison Wolf
Our partner organizations
- Arts & Culture Eldorado (Terry LeMoncheck)
- Burning Man (Michael Mikel, Dusty Hawthorne)
- California Arts Council (Donn Harris)
- Center for the Study of the Force Majeure (Josh and Newton Harrison)
- Central Sierra Field Research Stations (Jeff Brown)
- Festival For the Earth
- Land Art Generator Initiative (Robert Ferry, Elizabeth Monoian)
- Nevada Museum of Art – Center for Art + Environment (Bill Fox, Amanda Horn, Sara Frantz)
- Nevada Arts Council (Anthony Manfredi)
- Nevada County Arts Council (Eliza Tudor)
- Obtainium Works (Shannon O’Hare)
- Organization of Biological Field Stations (Faerthen Felix)
- Placer County Arts Council (Jim Crosthwaite)
- Living Forests (Josh and Newton Harrison, Matt Jamieson)
- The Oxford Research Center in the Humanities (TORCH)
- Sierra County Arts Council (B.J. Jordan)
- Sierra Nevada College Master of Fine Arts-Interdisciplinary Arts program (Russell Dudley, Julia Schwadron)
- Tahoe Public Art (Marina Lowe)
- UC Berkeley Sagehen Creek Field Station (Jeff Brown, Faerthen Felix)
- Underground Engine VFX (Ethan Summers, Anne-Marie Napoli)
- US Forest Service – Tahoe National Forest
- Visions of the Wild (Steve and Ann Dunsky)
Project leads: Arts & Culture Eldorado, Nevada County Arts Council, Nevada Museum of Art – Center for Art + Environment, UC Berkeley Sagehen Creek Field Station.