Montréal-based artist Lisa Kimberly Glickman has started a new series called Voices for the Wild, which honours female land defenders and environmentalists from across Canada.
Lisa’s work highlights poets, artists, scientists, activists, and others and poses each of the women with animals from the impacted area in the landscapes they are trying to protect. Alana’s portrait places her in a black spruce forest with an olive-sided flycatcher (Contopus cooperi), a species at risk who can be found calling “quick, three beers!” from spruce tops at the edges of bogs, burns, and clearcuts in the Wabanaki forest region. Alana co-wrote the COSEWIC assessment report for this species and has studied impacts of forest harvesting on olive-sided flycatcher habitat.
Alana is humbled to be included in this series alongside titans in efforts to maintain healthy environments in Canada like water defender Autumn Peltier and novelist Catherine Bush, among others.
Find out more about Lisa Kimberly Glickman’s Voices for the Wild project here, and view her artwork and upcoming showings here.
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