Steve Cagan: Will it be Beautiful?


Steve Cagan: Will it be Beautiful?
Date/Time
Registration Begins
2/25/2022
Last Day To Register
4/14/2022 6:00 PM
Location
Virtual Program
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Bringing Nature Home
presented by Independent Tree

Join the Nature Center at Shaker Lakes and Doan Brook Watershed Partnership for this virtual series inspired by Douglas Tallamy’s Book, BRINGING NATURE HOME. Local experts will share the benefits of gardening with native plants and show us how the decisions we make for our home or neighborhood gardens can have a positive impact on the surrounding community.

This program is free. If you would like to donate, please select the optional $5 ticket (includes a $5 donation to NCSL) or make a donation of any amount by clicking here: Donate to NCSL

The zoom link will be emailed to all participants shortly before the program begins. 
 

Steve Cagan: Will it be Beautiful? A look through the year at the engaging beauty of a native flower garden

Steve Cagan lives in Cleveland Heights, where with his wife he has small native flower and vegetable gardens. He’s been photographing and exhibiting seriously since the mid-1970s. Major work is in what is often called documentary, but what Steve prefers to call activist or socially engaged photography. He’s most concerned with exploring strength and dignity in everyday struggles of grassroots people resisting their pressures and problems. His avian photography and the images from the garden are by-products of a long-standing love of nature and birding.
 

He has been involved in a major project, since 2003: “El Chocó, Colombia: Struggle for Cultural and Environmental Survival,” documenting that threatened rain forest area and the special cultures there. Focus on daily life in Afro-Colombian and indigenous communities, and the dangers posed by the violence of the civil conflict and “development” activities that threaten the rainforest environment and traditional cultures.
 

Steve has exhibited and published photography on four continents. He has published reviews and critical writings in a variety of professional journals and books. Major awards include two Fulbright Fellowships, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and several Ohio Arts Council Fellowships and New Jersey Arts Council Fellowships. Steve taught photography at Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, 1985-1993.
 

More about Steve’s work is at: 

www.stevecagan.com

https://stevecagan.smugmug.com

http://socialdocumentary.net/photographer/stevecagan


 

Cost
$5.00 per Free Ticket + $5 Donation
Cancellation Policy
To cancel your registration, please email us as campsandclasses@shakerlakes.org prior to the start of the program.

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