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Artist, Author, Activist Katie Holten: The Language of Trees: Forest Thinking to Reimagine the World

March 25, 2025
3pm - 4:15pm
Location
Swem Library, Ford Classroom
400 Landrum Dr
Williamsburg, VA 23185Map this location
Access & Features
  • Free food
  • Open to the public
  • Registration/RSVP
Katie Holten talk event flyer

The Institute for Integrative Conservation and W&M Libraries welcome artist, activist, and best-selling author Katie Holten for two events in celebration of W&M Year of the Environment.

What is the language we need to live right now? How can we learn to be better lovers of the world?

Katie will take us through an exploration of these questions and reflects on the significance of human connection with the more-than-human world as we collectively face threats of the biodiversity loss and climate change.

There will be two opportunities to engage with Katie on March 25th.

TREE DRAWING SESSION

Join Katie in Crim Dell Meadow to find your connection with trees and spend a morning drawing them. We will have some paper and pencils on hand but encourage you to bring your own favorite tools.

Tuesday, March 25th, 2025

10:45 AM to 12:00 PM

W&M, Williamsburg, VA

This event will move indoors if the weather is bad so plan to come rain or shine.


PUBLIC TALK

The Language of Trees: Forest Thinking to Reimagine the World

Tuesday, March 25th, 2025

Ford Classroom, Ground Level, Swem Library

3:00 to 4:15 PM

A book signing and light reception will follow in the Botetourt Gallery.

A limited number of books will be available for purchase at the event.


Please register to attend the talk.

No registration is needed for the tree drawing session.

About Katie

Katie Holten is an artist, activist and bestselling author. For over twenty years she has made unconventional works that intersect art, activism, ecology, language and history. At the root of her practice is a commitment to fighting the climate and biodiversity emergency. Her collaborative research-based work explores the inextricable relationship between Humans and Nature, between organic systems and human-made systems.

In 2003, she represented Ireland at the Venice Biennale. She has had solo exhibitions at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, the Nevada Museum of Art, the New Orleans Museum of Art, the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, and Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane. Her work investigates the entangled relationships between humans and the natural world. She has created Tree Alphabets, a Stone Alphabet, and a Wildflower Alphabet to share the joy she finds in her love of the more-than-human world. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Irish Times, The Washington Post, Artforum, and frieze. She is a visiting lecturer at the New School of the Anthropocene.

If she could be a tree, she would be an Oak.


These events are part of the Institute for Integrative Conservation's 2024-25 Conservation Speaker Series: "Creativity and Innovation in Conservation” and is presented in collaboration with the William & Mary Libraries with support from the Muscarelle Museum of Art in celebration of the 2024 W&M Year of the Arts and transition to the 2025 W&M Year of the Environment.


Sponsored by: Institute for Integrative Conservation and W&M Libraries

Contact

https://www.wm.edu/offices/iic/