Artist in Residence Highlights 2010

Stewardship projects:

• Monitoring vessel/harbor seal interactions as part of a partnership between ADFG, USFS, and NOAA.
• Provided education aboard two tour boats travelling Endicott Arm
• Monitored camp-site conditions in Endicott Arm
• Visitor contacts

Donation:  Two framed poems: "Fluency" and "I Found you on a Wild Western Coast"

Community extension:  Fireside chat at the Mendenhall Glacier Visitor Center in Juneau, AK

In the Wild Without Child One on LiteraryMama.com

Tracy Arm-Fords Terror Wilderness (PDF)

Tongass National Forest website

Stewardship projects:

• Monitoring vessel/harbor seal interactions as part of a partnership between ADFG, USFS, and NOAA.
• Provided education aboard three tour boats travelling Endicott Arm
• Monitored camp-site conditions in Endicott Arm
• Visitor contacts
• Participating in air quality monitoring project
• Beach clean-ups

Donation:  Framed watercolor painting entitled “Coolness”

Community extension:  Two public presentations at Annie Kaill’s Gallery in Juneau, AK

https://www.facebook.com/Marine-Artist-Brenda-Schwartz-Yeager-168590243207122/

Tracy Arm-Fords Terror Wilderness (PDF)

Tongass National Forest website

"My favorite speech in the play [Blue Bear] is the small monologue that we called Lynn's Aria. It is a moment when while they are looking for the Glacier Bear in Endicott Arm and he turns to the audience and says, ‘He’s right. I do love this place. I love it fiercely for its power of recovery after being scalped down to bedrock by ice or violent tsunamis. I love it for the power it shows us in the weight of its rain. I love it wildly for the songs it sings in the voice of a whale’s breath or the rusty tracheal trumpetings of a flock of cranes. I love it for its turbulence and eagerness and I love it when it storms or is calm. Sometimes in the spring, when the new green leaves and first delicate blossoms are aching into bloom, I love it the way a dog loves to ride in the back of a pickup truck and I want to run side to side barking and flapping my tongue.’. He’s talking about Southeast Alaska. He’s talking about my time in Tracy Arm-Ford’s Terror."

Stewardship projects: 

• Breaking down field camp in September (laborer).
• Participated in Forestry Sciences Lab genetic study of Alaska yellow cedar by collecting cedar samples in Holkham Bay and Endicott Arm.
• Visitor contacts
• Participating in air quality monitoring project

Donation:  Provided publicity on the Tongass through The Blue Bear production and playbill, a production inspired by his residency 

Community extension:  Promoted VOTW through multiple workshops he taught in the NYC area.

Tracy Arm-Fords Terror Wilderness (PDF)

Tongass National Forest website