Creating deeper connections to the world around us. Making meaningful change happen.

Registration Open!

Making Change Happen is a 2-hour long introductory workshop for professionals and graduate students designed to help kickstart your journey to becoming a meaningful changemaker!

Workshop offered three dates this spring!

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Join us for the Spring 2024 Workshop Intensive, “Community-Centered Engagement,” a 3-part online workshop for museum and nonprofit professionals focused on building a strong community-centered practice in your organization. Workshop is held on Wednesdays from April 10 thru 24.

What We Do

  • Facilitating institutional change work, human-centered practices, and community partnerships in museums, parks, arboretums, and other cultural and environmental nonprofits.

  • Place-based projects and partnerships that facilitate greater access to learning, build meaningful connections to nature and culture, and deepen community connections.

  • School partnerships that bring together place-based thinking, creativity, and collaboration to make a long lasting impact.

Learn more about how we can support your organization.

Who We Are

We are Mike and Bryna, the co-creators of Art | Nature | Place, and we believe that we all have a role to play in creating and supporting the change we need to see in the institutions that shape public life. Learn about how our experience as creatives and educators with over twenty years of collective experience in research, place based thinking, and arts based learning brought us to this work.

Read about our latest Projects

Community Resources:

Agents of Change

Agents of Change,” is resource and guide for those of us stepping up to become changemakers in our own organizations and communities, and a way to bring people together around key issues, questions, and strategies to make meaningful change happen.  You’ll find articles, podcasts, and discussions delivered right to your inbox.

Slow Outdoors

Slow Outdoors is a guide for building meaningful connections with the natural world, and an invitation to rethink the ways we work, play, parent, move through, and even define the outdoors today. Posts come out a few times a month , delivered right to your inbox.

Read our favorites from the blog.

“Connection is why we’re here. We are hardwired to connect with others, it’s what gives purpose and meaning to our lives.”

— Brene Brown