Black Forest Institute Dialogue Series

Project Sponsor: Daisy McGowan

Responsible Department: UCCS Galleries of Contemporary Art (GOCA)

Total GAF Funding: $10,000.00

Themes: Education, Community, Advocacy

Goal: To promote conversations about forest fires, forest regeneration, and burn scar mitigation.

Impact: Helped regenerate environmental burn scar areas by removing timber and planting new trees. The removed timber was cut into firewood for use in three art installations at the Ent Center for the Arts. The stacked wood piles were then picked apart over the course of the exhibition and burned during programmed fireside talks focused on forests and changing climate.