New York Times

Plants are in constant conversation—not just with soils and light but also with us. To celebrate that relationship, I curated a few gifts for NYT’s Wirecutter that will inspire the green thumb in your life to learn about, tend, and celebrate the plants around them in unexpected, delightful ways.

Art Extension Service

Recognizing the power of art to make abstract biological and geochemical processes visible and accessible, the Urban Soils Institute added an Art Extension Service in 2018. The AES brings together artists, scientists, and educators to create collaborative public art projects through residencies, symposia, and exhibitions in the United States and abroad.

The goals of the Art Extension Service:

  • Provide opportunities for artists and soil scientists to explore common interests and passions

  • Engender stewardship of our soil and ecology

  • Create an interactive community of scientists, artists, and citizens

  • Promote soils education through fun, accessible, complex, poetic and unexpected means