Creature Conserve

In addition to our scholarship, mentorship and exhibition programs, Creature Conserve runs several workshops a year. 𝗢𝘂𝗿 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗽𝘀 𝗴𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗽𝗮𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗼𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝘁𝗼 build their leadership skills and practice making conservation science more accessible, meaningful, and relevant. Our workshops provide attendees with the tools to ask critical questions, and the confidence to seek new answers. Our goal is to make our workshops as accessible as possible, regularly offering financial support for those wanting to attend workshops, and even offering a full year of 𝗙𝗥𝗘𝗘 courses to our current scholars every year. A donation of $50 allows us to provide 𝗧𝗪𝗢 current Mentees, Mentors, or Scholarship Recipients with 𝗙𝗥𝗘𝗘 access to one of our Fundamentals Workshops. 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗰𝘁 𝗺𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗱𝗼𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗺𝗮𝗸𝗲? –––––––– 𝗔𝗦 𝗪𝗘 𝗚𝗥𝗢𝗪 𝗢𝗨𝗥 𝗖𝗢𝗠𝗠𝗨𝗡𝗜𝗧𝗬, 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗖𝗔𝗡 𝗦𝗨𝗣𝗣𝗢𝗥𝗧 𝗨𝗦 𝗕𝗬: 1️⃣ Visiting the 𝗟𝗜𝗡𝗞 𝗜𝗡 𝗢𝗨𝗥 𝗕𝗜𝗢 or our website https://lnkd.in/dM8Y3pSw to make a donation. 2️⃣ Re-sharing this post to your story and encouraging others in your community to follow and support us. 3️⃣ Signing up for our monthly newsletter on our website. 4️⃣ Visiting the 𝗟𝗜𝗡𝗞 𝗜𝗡 𝗢𝗨𝗥 𝗕𝗜𝗢 or our website https://lnkd.in/daFcPqFM to learn more about some of our incredible community members. By sharing your resources with us, we’re able to share them with others, and grow our creative community. Thank you for supporting our mission during this #GivingSeason! 🐾 –––––––– 𝗜𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝘃𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗼 (𝗶𝗻 𝗼𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗼𝗳 𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲): 🗣 Sofiya Shukhova @sofiya.shukhova 🗣 Franco Zacha @francozacha 🗣 Dr. Lucy Spelman @drlucy.spelman 🗣 Heather McMordie @hlmcmo –––––––– #creatureconserve #artscience #conservation #conservationart #literatureandscience #givingtuesday #nonprofit #wildlifeart #supportnonprofits #supportartists #supportwriters #supportwildlife #supportconservation #donate #collaboration

As this year comes to end, we’re celebrating the work our community has created this year, and dreaming big for the year to come. 🐾🗺️ –––––––– At Creature Conserve, we’re growing a creative community that combines art with science to cultivate new pathways for wildlife conservation. Our programs support creatives as they take bold new steps to explore the collaborative art-sci process, connect with like-minded individuals, find inspiration in the combination of art and science, and get involved in wildlife conservation. 🐝🐞🐜🌸🔬🥼🎨📝🐾 𝗙𝗼𝗿 𝗲𝘅𝗮𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲, scholarship recipient Eileen Holland (@e.m.holland) shares her creative journey in the making of “The Power of a River.” She shows us how creative works—animation in her case—can tap into our emotions and our subconscious and make the scientific and traditional knowledge we use to make decisions more accessible, meaningful, and real. –––––––– 𝗛𝗢𝗪 𝗖𝗔𝗡 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗦𝗨𝗣𝗣𝗢𝗥𝗧 𝗠𝗢𝗥𝗘 𝗖𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗩𝗘𝗦 𝗟𝗜𝗞𝗘 𝗘𝗜𝗟𝗘𝗘𝗡 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗛𝗘𝗟𝗣 𝗨𝗦 𝗚𝗥𝗢𝗪 𝗢𝗨𝗥 𝗖𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗩𝗘 𝗖𝗢𝗠𝗠𝗨𝗡𝗜𝗧𝗬? 1️⃣ Visit the 𝗟𝗜𝗡𝗞 𝗜𝗡 𝗢𝗨𝗥 𝗕𝗜𝗢 or our website https://lnkd.in/dM8Y3pSw to make a donation. 2️⃣ Re-share this post to your story and encourage others in your community to follow and support us. 3️⃣ Sign up for our monthly newsletter on our website. 4️⃣ Visit the 𝗟𝗜𝗡𝗞 𝗜𝗡 𝗢𝗨𝗥 𝗕𝗜𝗢 or our website https://lnkd.in/daFcPqFM to learn more about some of our incredible community members. By sharing your resources with us, we’re able to share them with others, and grow our creative community. Thank you for supporting our mission during this #GivingSeason! 🐾 Lucy Spelman –––––––– #creatureconserve #artscience #conservation #conservationart #literatureandscience #givingtuesday #nonprofit #wildlifeart #supportnonprofits #supportartists #supportwriters #supportwildlife #supportconservation #donate #collaboration

As we prepare for more scholarships, mentorships, and exhibitions in 2025, we hope you’ll help us grow a creative community that combines art with science to cultivate new pathways for wildlife conservation. Our programs support creatives as they take bold new steps to explore the collaborative art-sci process and get involved with wildlife conservation. 🐝🐞🐜🌸🔬🥼🎨📝🐾 –––––––– The goal of our 𝗖𝘂𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗘𝘅𝗵𝗶𝗯𝗶𝘁𝘀 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺𝘀 is to showcase the work of artists and writers who are combining the arts with science and engage viewers in art/sci conservation projects. The program is led by @hlmcmo, and also supports a few Curatorial Fellows and Scholars each year who are exploring new ways to create exhibitions and public programs. In the past three years, we have curated 𝗦𝗜𝗫 exhibitions or curatorial programs, and over 30,000 people have attended our “Re-Conservation” exhibition series. We’re looking forward to many more exhibitions in years to come! 🖼️ –––––––– 𝗛𝗢𝗪 𝗖𝗔𝗡 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗛𝗘𝗟𝗣 𝗨𝗦 𝗚𝗥𝗢𝗪 𝗢𝗨𝗥 𝗖𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗩𝗘 𝗖𝗢𝗠𝗠𝗨𝗡𝗜𝗧𝗬? 1️⃣ Visit the 𝗟𝗜𝗡𝗞 𝗜𝗡 𝗢𝗨𝗥 𝗕𝗜𝗢 or our website https://lnkd.in/dM8Y3pSw to make a donation. 2️⃣ Re-share this post to your story and encourage others in your community to follow and support us. 3️⃣ Sign up for our monthly newsletter on our website. 4️⃣ Visit the 𝗟𝗜𝗡𝗞 𝗜𝗡 𝗢𝗨𝗥 𝗕𝗜𝗢 or our website https://lnkd.in/daFcPqFM to learn more about some of our incredible community members. By sharing your resources with us, we’re able to share them with others, and grow our creative community. Thank you for supporting our mission during this #GivingSeason! 🐾 Lucy Spelman Heather McMordie –––––––– #creatureconserve #artscience #conservation #conservationart #literatureandscience #givingtuesday #nonprofit #wildlifeart #supportnonprofits #supportartists #supportwriters #supportwildlife #supportconservation #donate #collaboration

Creature Conserve is a growing creative community that combines art with science to cultivate new pathways for wildlife conservation. Our programs support creatives as they take bold new steps to explore the collaborative art-sci process and get involved with wildlife conservation. 🐝🐞🐜🌸🔬🥼🎨📝🐾 This December, we’re hoping to raise $8,000, so we can run more programs, reach a wider audience, and grow our creative community. –––––––– One of the many programs we run each year is our Mentorship Program. Led by @derek_s_russell, Mentorship serves as a support system for artists, designers, writers and experts with scientific and traditional knowledge as they collaborate and explore the human connection to nature. Since its inception in 2019, we have supported 64 Mentees and Mentors and 5 Mentor Fellows. –––––––– 𝗛𝗢𝗪 𝗖𝗔𝗡 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗛𝗘𝗟𝗣 𝗨𝗦 𝗚𝗥𝗢𝗪 𝗠𝗘𝗡𝗧𝗢𝗥𝗦𝗛𝗜𝗣 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗢𝗨𝗥 𝗖𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗩𝗘 𝗖𝗢𝗠𝗠𝗨𝗡𝗜𝗧𝗬? 1️⃣ Visit the 𝗟𝗜𝗡𝗞 𝗜𝗡 𝗢𝗨𝗥 𝗕𝗜𝗢 or our website https://lnkd.in/dM8Y3pSw to make a donation. 2️⃣ Re-share this post to your story and encourage others in your community to follow and support us. 3️⃣ Sign up for our monthly newsletter on our website. 4️⃣ Visit the 𝗟𝗜𝗡𝗞 𝗜𝗡 𝗢𝗨𝗥 𝗕𝗜𝗢 or our website https://lnkd.in/daFcPqFM to learn more about some of our incredible community members. By sharing your resources with us, we’re able to share them with others, and grow our creative community. Thank you for considering Creature Conserve this #GivingSeason! 🐾 Lucy Spelman –––––––– #creatureconserve #artscience #conservation #conservationart #literatureandscience #givingtuesday #nonprofit #wildlifeart #supportnonprofits #supportartists #supportwriters #supportwildlife #supportconservation #donate #collaboration

This #GivingTuesday, please consider supporting Creature Conserve’s mission. We are a growing creative community that combines art with science to cultivate new pathways for wildlife conservation. Our programs support creatives as they take bold new steps to explore the collaborative art-sci process and get involved with wildlife conservation. 🐝🐞🐜🌸🔬🥼🎨📝🐾 This December, we’re hoping to raise $8,000 so we can run more programs, reach a wider audience, and grow our creative community. When you share your resources with us, we’re able to share them with others. 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗰𝘁 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗱𝗼𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲? 1️⃣ Visit the 𝗟𝗜𝗡𝗞 𝗜𝗡 𝗢𝗨𝗥 𝗕𝗜𝗢 or our website https://lnkd.in/dM8Y3pSw to make a donation. 2️⃣ Re-share this post to your story and encourage others in your community to follow and support us. 3️⃣ Sign up for our monthly newsletter on our website. 4️⃣ Visit the 𝗟𝗜𝗡𝗞 𝗜𝗡 𝗢𝗨𝗥 𝗕𝗜𝗢 or our website https://lnkd.in/daFcPqFM to learn more about some of our incredible community members. Thank you for considering Creature Conserve in your #GivingTuesday activities! 🐾 Lucy Spelman –––––––– #creatureconserve #artscience #conservation #conservationart #literatureandscience #givingtuesday #nonprofit #wildlifeart #supportnonprofits #supportartists #supportwriters #supportwildlife #supportconservation #donate #collaboration

Creature Conserve is growing a creative community that combines art with science to cultivate new pathways for wildlife conservation 🐝🐞🐜🌸🔬🥼🎨📝🐾 We do this through programs, like our scholarship program, that are designed to support the collaborative art-sci process. Each year we distribute about $26,000 (about ⅓ of our annual operating budget!) through our Scholarship Programs directly to artists, designers, writers, scientists, traditional knowledge holders, and other experts around the world to support their bold new steps in wildlife conservation. This year, we’re hoping to raise $8,000 to support our 2025 programs. 𝗖𝗮𝗻 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗽 𝘂𝘀 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗴𝗼𝗮𝗹? –––––––– 𝗛𝗢𝗪 𝗖𝗔𝗡 𝗬𝗢𝗨 𝗦𝗨𝗣𝗣𝗢𝗥𝗧 𝗖𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘 𝗖𝗢𝗡𝗦𝗘𝗥𝗩𝗘? 1️⃣ Visit the https://lnkd.in/dM8Y3pSw to make a donation. 2️⃣ Re-share this post to your story and encourage others in your community to consider supporting Creature Conserve. 3️⃣ Sign up for our monthly newsletter on our website. 4️⃣ Visit the 𝗟𝗜𝗡𝗞 𝗜𝗡 𝗢𝗨𝗥 𝗕𝗜𝗢 to learn more about the creatives Creature Conserve supports. By sharing your resources with us, we’re able to share them with others, and grow our creative community. Thank you for supporting our mission! 🐾 –––––––– Lucy Spelman Heather McMordie Shiri Lev Derek Russell Alex Hopwood #creatureconserve #artscience #conservation #conservationart #literatureandscience #givingtuesday #nonprofit #wildlifeart #supportnonprofits #supportartists #supportwriters #supportwildlife #supportconservation #donate #collaboration

As a Creature Conserve Curatorial Fellow, Alexandra Ionescu curated amazing online programming around beavers this summer. You can now watch the panel discussion on YouTube and get inspired by Beavers: Restorers of Biodiversity!

WE’RE THRILLED TO ANNOUNCE the upcoming launch of 𝘾𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚 𝙉𝙚𝙚𝙙𝙨: 𝙒𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙨 𝙍𝙚𝙨𝙥𝙤𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙤 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙎𝙘𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝘼𝙣𝙞𝙢𝙖𝙡 𝘾𝙤𝙣𝙨𝙚𝙧𝙫𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣, edited by Christopher Kondrich, Lucy Spelman and Susan Tacent –––––––– Forthcoming from the University of Minnesota Press in January 2025, Creature Needs is a collection of new work by an exciting diversity of 39 poets and writers paired with excerpts from the scientific articles that inspired them. Organized around the six basic survival needs for all species—air, food, water, shelter, room to move, and community—the collection explores how these essential needs are threatened by climate change, pollution, and habitat destruction. A collaboration with Creature Conserve, this collection emphasizes the urgent need for conservation efforts to protect all species. 𝗣𝗿𝗲-𝗼𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗰𝗼𝗽𝘆 𝘃𝗶𝗮 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗟𝗜𝗡𝗞 𝗜𝗡 𝗕𝗜𝗢. –––––––– 𝗖𝗢𝗡𝗧𝗥𝗜𝗕𝗨𝗧𝗢𝗥𝗦: Beth Piatote / Charles Baxter / Eléna Rivera / Thalia Field / Kim Blaeser / Miranda Mellis / Donika Kelly / Mary-Kim Arnold / Jane Wong / Kyoko Mori / Asiya Wadud / Ramona Ausubel / Kazim Ali / Annie Hartnett / Robin McLean & Tim Hutton / Eleni Sikelianos / Maggie Smith / Marco Wilkinson / Juliana Spahr / Mónica de la Torre / Oni Buchanan / Rena Priest / Tongo Eisen-Martin / Jodie Noel Vinson / Rajiv Mohabir / David Baker / Claire Wahmanholm / Sofia Samatar / Sean Hill / Ching-In Chen / Aimee Bender / Tina Cane / Ben Goldfarb / Hester Kaplan / David Naimon / Alberto Ríos / Craig Santos Perez / Sharma Shields 𝗖𝗢𝗩𝗘𝗥 𝗔𝗥𝗧: Lisa Ericson 𝗜𝗡𝗦𝗜𝗗𝗘 𝗜𝗟𝗟𝗨𝗦𝗧𝗥𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡𝗦: Franco Zacha –––––––– 🎨 🎨 🗣 📖 #CreatureNeeds #AnimalConservation #LiteratureAndScience #ProtectOurPlanet #EndExtinction #WildlifeConservation #ConservationArt #ClimateAction #CreatureConserve

🔭Como parte de nuestros objetivos para aportar a la Conservación, estamos siendo patrocinados este otoño por Creature Conserve para ejecutar un proyecto para explorar, analizar, discutir y recopilar datos de ecosistemas en algunos lugares de la selva amazónica y Sierra de Ecuador como parte de un Diseño de Producto Sostenible de The Rain Spirit. 🐸Nos centraremos en utilizar ingredientes locales en Ecuador y correlacionarlos con los territorios donde las especies de ranas endémicas enfrentan el declive debido al cambio climático y la fragmentación del hábitat. 👨🏻🔬Trabajaremos con biólogos en Ecuador para determinar las especies en peligro ubicadas y los territorios de algunos ingredientes proporcionados por las comunidades indígenas y mapear los sitios para documentar y caracterizar. 🧴Por lo tanto, antes de diseñar y lanzar nuestros primeros productos para la piel y el cuidado personal, elegiremos conscientemente ingredientes preciosos que provienen de regiones ricas de Ecuador con antecedentes éticos que puedan sostener actividades agroecológicas hacia el cambio climático y la conservación de las ranas como bioindicadores. —— As a form of conservation action, we are being sponsored this fall by CREATURE CONSERVE to execute a project to explore, analyze, discuss and collect data from ecosystems in some locations of the Amazon Raiforest and Highlands of Ecuador as part of a the Sustainable Product Design of The Rain Spirit. We will focus on using local ingredients in Ecuador and correlating them with the territories where endemic frog species face declining due to climate change and habitat fragmentation. We will be working with Biologists in Ecuador to determine the species in danger located and the territories of the some ingredients provided by indigenous communities and map the sites to document and characterize. So, before designing and launching our first skin and personal care products, we will consciously choose precious ingredients that come from rich regions in Ecuador with ethical backgrounds that can sustain agroecological activities towards climate change and conservation of frogs as bioindicators. #ecuador #sostenibilidad

New project alert: Birds in Indian folktales 🐦🔥 Growing up, many of us cherished the folktales narrated by our grandparents, where legendary birds and animals often took centre stage. These stories not only entertained but also conveyed life lessons and cultural values. I am very excited about my new series, “Birds in Indian Folktales,” which Creature Conserve supports. Through this series, I’ll explore the significant role of birds in Indian folktales, arts, and songs and how these tales have been passed down through generations. Stay tuned for an exciting traditional storytelling workshop. If you’re interested in participating, watch for more updates. #scholarship