Head Above the Water — Mason Exhibitions

Head Above the Water: Respecting the Power of Water Through Artmaking, Storytelling, and Flood Risk Mitigation Awareness

JUNE 24, 2023

Oxon Run and Watts Branch, Washington, DC

Organized by the City as Living Laboratory (CALL), Mason Exhibitions, WEACT for Environmental Justice, and others!

Artists Cary Michael Robinson and Nicole Salimbene, along with environmental scientists and community organizers, facilitated a day of walking/talking/making along Watts Branch & Oxon Run streams and neighborhoods. This event served as an invitation to honor the power of water through creative expression, and to learn more about the flood risks and mitigation programs/actions to protect the community and the surrounding waterways in Ward 7 and Ward 8.

WALK LEADERS

Dr. Alsean Bryant, Strategic Support Team Clinical Pharmacist at the AIDS Healthcare Foundation for the DC, MD, and VA region

Dr. Travis Gallo, Assistant Professor in Urban Ecology and Conservation in the Department of Environmental Science and Technology at the University of Maryland

Brenda Richardson, Coordinator for the Anacostia Parks & Community Collaborative (APACC) & Vice-Chair of the Friends of Oxon Run Park

Cary Michael Robinson, Interdisciplinary and Mixed Media Artist.

Nicole Salimbene, Interdisciplinary Artist

Dr. Jennifer Sklarew, Assistant Professor, Energy and Sustainability Policy, Food-Energy-Water-Climate Nexus, Social Science, George Mason University

Absalom Jordan, Chair, Friends of Oxon Run Park

Jaren Hill Lockridge, Director, The Well at Oxon Run

Made possible with support from the DC Department of Energy and the Environment and FEMA