Belonging: The Natural History of People in the Southwest Fall 2023 - Winter 2024 The Natural History Institute presents a series of lectures, workshops, and a film screening exploring the relationship between people and place. Cultivate an appreciation for belonging, and discover the cultural diversity of the Mogollon Highlands. Traveling the Artistic Road Thursday, July […]
My Beloved West Louise Grunewald July 28th - October 13th My Beloved West is a series of works by Louise Grunewald featuring Solarplate viscosity prints, monotypes, and several hand-lettered books. With writings expressing personal experiences and images of emotional responses to the untamed landscapes of the American West, Louise Grunewald portrays a love of place. […]
We hear a lot about mindfulness these days. On this Mindful Meandering, participants will learn ways to nurture the useful life skill of mindful awareness, while taking a different kind of nature walk. Our focus will be on staying present for what is happening around us and in us when we are in a natural […]
Join NHI and writer and literature scholar Dr. Reuben Ellis for a day-long reading and journaling workshop exploring how pre-contact indigenous culture is represented in writing. The Prescott Culture is one of many indigenous groups that prospered in the American Southwest as the ancestors of today’s tribal peoples. They inhabited the Prescott Basin, the Upper […]
In partnership with the Yavapai College, Osher Lifelong Learning Institute Verde Valley (OLLISV), NHI presents... We Are of This Place: An Indigenous Natural History of Central Arizona In this presentation, Dr. Maurice Crandall connects central Arizona's natural history and resources to the violent displacement and removal of the Yavapai and Dilzhe'e Apache people, and their […]
Art Field workshop: DRAWN TO NATURE During this workshop, participants will head outdoors and do simple drawings and writings, recording their responses to the landscape. If time permits, we will construct a small book as a record of our experiences. This program was made possible by Arizona Humanities. Register here. Louise Grunewald teaches calligraphy and […]
Arizona is home to four different species of wildcats including the third largest felid in the world. Wildcats of all species are capable of taking prey much larger than themselves and seemingly impossible feats of athleticism. Feared, loathed, and worshiped, wildcats have had a varied relationship with humans from the beginnings of time. From Jaguars […]