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From appreciating, investigating, and collaborating to adulterating, manipulating, and exploiting, how do humans cultivate and change nature, and what will that mean for our future? The eleven artists in Crafting Nature explore how humans interact with nature in their bodies of work.

Beyond inspiration
Barbara Straussberg, Christy E. O’Connor, Michele Randall, and Francis Beaty all collaborate with nature as an artistic aide in their process. Straussberg and Beaty use natural materials to create pieces that appear or are deconstructed, and mirror nature’s recurring cycle of growth and decay. …