Season 4 of The Collective begins with artist, activist, educator, and Certified Naturalist, Carly Creley.
We discuss Creley’s art on Environmental Justice in the Imperial Valley, the Annual Sequoia National Park Volunteer Trip where art and environment intersect, and much more.
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Replays and special After Dark episodes on Spotify and Substack, on The Collective by Gina Duran.
Spotlight:
Carly Creley is a professional educator and Certified Naturalist from Los Angeles, California. She uses art to share her experiences in the natural world with others. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Agribusiness Management, and masters degrees in Environmental Science and in Education. This combination gives her an intense interest in environmental justice, which is the focus of her current artistic work and scholarship, Imperial Geographies: How Pollution, Labor, and Border Policy Create the Modern Salton Sea and Imperial Valley.
Her work has been exhibited at L.A. Artcore, Art Share L.A., the Fine Arts Gallery at California State University, Los Angeles, Steppling Gallery at San Diego State University-Imperial Valley, and Nervous Ghost Press’s Community Art Space. Her art has been published in Spectrum, the Sand Canyon Review, and the East Jasmine Review. Her scientific research has been published in the Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences.
Carly hopes that her work draws others to venture out on their own journeys to places that will become just as important to them as they are to her.
We are all apart of the collective. It is not a special group or community out of anyone’s reach. The trees, the earth, the plants, the insects, the animals, and humans are all apart of the collective. We each have something to give to the world and our communities around us. It’s in knowing how to care for the ones we love, the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the food we eat. It is all self-care. Community care is self-care. And together we are more than community, we are like the stars singing in the sky. We are music and our voices are the hum of the universe. Because we are things of stars, and so is every thing on this earth.
My dream is that one day we will come together to make this world a better place.
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