Wilson Area CREATE Resilience Mural

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Start: 2022-6-23T18-18-00-00
End: 2022-6-23T20-20-00-00
Location: Nurture Nature Center

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Wilson community – we’d love your feedback. Click here to respond to this mural.

This mural is currently exhibited at Wilson Area High School and is restricted at this time due to the pandemic.

Listen to an interview with the artist along with a guided video of the artwork here.

Wilson area artist Don Wilson

The graph below visualizes the responses collected from Wilson area residents through NNC’s CREATE Resilience project.

What do you think is most needed to make your community more resilient?

About the Artist: Don Wilson

Nurture Nature Center (NNC) is pleased to highlight artist Don Wilson who was commissioned to create a community-based mural (Wilson area) as part of NNC’s CREATE Resilience project funded through National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Environmental Literacy Grant program.

As an artist, illustrator and photographer, Don has published several hundred works in magazines, books, newspapers, technical brochures and advertisements. He’s exhibited artwork in about 225 venues, including galleries, museums, arts & crafts festivals, art co-operatives, libraries, corporate and state office buildings.

A prolific painter, NNC hosted a solo show of over 60 pieces of his work in 2016. The exhibit, “Landscapes Inside Out…Sentinels of Sentiment,” was a comprehensive look at his work dating back to the 1960’s. Other recent exhibits of his works include The Center for Contemporary Art, Bedminster, N.J., Artsbridge, Lambertville, N.J., and the Williams and Grossman Galleries at Lafayette College, The International Fusion Gallery, Terra Cafe, and The State Theater Annex Gallery, all in Easton, Pa.

In 2018, Don Wilson was voted “Artist of the Year” by the Arts Community of Easton. Since March of that year, he began the studies to become a Penn State Extension Master Watershed Steward and has been an active volunteer working with Fry’s Run Watershed Association (Williams Township) and the Watershed Coalition of the Lehigh Valley.

Mr. Wilson’s formal art education includes Mercer County Community College, Trenton, N.J., Tyler School of Art, Temple University, and graduate studies at California State University at Long Beach. He has taught visual arts at the secondary education level in New Jersey and Massachusetts.

For more of Don Wilson’s artwork see: http://wetube.us/donwilsonvisualarts/

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Our largest art installation to date, “Climate Conversations: All We Can Save” is the work of

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Our largest art installation to date, “Climate Conversations: All We Can Save” is the work of eight mid-career women artists: Nancy Cohen, Kate Dodd, Laura Earle, Tracey Easthope, Elizabeth Barick Fall, Susan Hoffman Fishman, Gina Furnari, and Leslie Sobel. This collaboration of women from the midwest and east coast of the U.S. was born out of discussions and readings of a book released in 2020 that has since become a best-seller. The book, “All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis,” is an illuminating anthology of essays and poetry offering the insights and proficiency of dozens of diverse women leading on climate in the U.S.

Cover artwork: The climate parade by Tracey Easthope; graphic design inspired by Gina R. Furnari