Austen Camille
Austen Camille is a Canadian-American artist, writer, builder and gardener; always moving between projects and locations, and currently growing roots in rural Connecticut.
Camille primarily makes site-responsive public work that is equally concerned with the actions of rootedness and flight, and aims to facilitate relationships with local ecosystems. Alongside and integrated with her studio practice, Camille works to forge connections between the arts and other disciplines, amplify rural stories, and facilitate opportunities wherever possible to get folks' hands into the soil.
Her projects include work across the country with the Nature Conservancy (WY), the Columbia Land Conservancy (NY), the North Dakota Natural Resources Trust (ND), the City of Raleigh (NC), the Aldo Leopold Foundation (WI), the International Crane Foundation, the NY Dept. of Environmental Conservation (NY), amongst others.
Camille received her MFA in Painting from the Tyler School of Art & Architecture, Temple University. She is the founder of public art and design company, Shared Field Studio, and the co-founder of the Flyway Institute, an organization dedicated to cultivating community and connectivity among flyways, foodways, and folkways through the arts and land stewardship.
austen.cw@gmail.com (personal) | austen@flywayinstitute.org (nonprofit)
503-880-2891