All of September
Artists of the Month - ImagineEarth Collective
Theme: Meet Your Neighbors
We share this region with thousands of other species. They navigate the same watersheds, shelter in the same forests, and travel the same flyways overhead — yet most of us have never been properly introduced. Meet Your Neighbors is an invitation to change that.
The work in this exhibition is inspired by the flora and fauna of the DC-Maryland-Virginia area — the green heron hunting at the water's edge, the mussel tucked into the gravel bed of the Patuxent River, the pollinators threading through meadow grasses, the oak holding its ground in sandy soil. These are our neighbors. They live alongside us, depend on the same land and water we do, and have as much claim to this place as anyone.
With this show, we hope to do what the Patuxent Research Refuge itself has always done for the people of this region — spark a genuine curiosity about the living world just outside your door, deepen your sense of connection to it, and leave your spirit a little more nourished than when you walked in. Because the first step toward caring for the natural world is knowing it. And you can't know your neighbors until you've been introduced.
Visit the ImagineEarth Collective website to see samples of the artists work - https://imagineearthcollective.com/