How do different spaces guide how we collaborate and care?
Lauren Camp, Poet Laureate, New Mexico and Astronomer-in-Residence, Grand Canyon; and poet Stephen Wilbers with artists MaryBeth Garrigan and Petra Johnita Lommen who paint star formations with the poems and art collaborating under complex conditions
We have two works that highlight and darken wonderful experiences of collaboration. Darken collaborations come together in Dark Skies in the Grand Canyon and Northern Minnesota. Both works show how collaboration is necessary for expression of art and content. My interview with Lauren Camp tells of her appointment as Poet Laureate of New Mexico and the need to build collaboration with many different organizations in that state. Lauren Camp also had the opportunity to be Astronomer-in-Residence at the Grand Canyon, again to work with people and organizations and especially taking people into the Dark Skies experience.
The second piece, The Avian Night Sky Collaboration, links the poet Stephen Wilbers with artists MaryBeth Garrigan and Petra Johnita Lommen, who met at events celebrating night skies. Seeing a common interest and cause, they began a collaboration linking poems to paintings and creating paintings in relation to poems. Features of collaboration are presented specifically. The results will move you and you will never see the light pollution at auto dealers the same again.
