Maria Mitchell Assoc – The Nature of Nantucket - Art and Science Storytelling with Dakota Lacroix Part 3

Listeners may know that Maria Mitchell was an advocate for bringing more imagination, beauty and poetry (also known as art) into the sciences. Her perspective is manifesting this summer as a special Oika Art exhibition that will culminate at the MMA gallery at 33 Washington Street and as outdoor installations around the island. Over the past several weeks, we’ve been interviewing the cohort of artists who will be exhibiting their work. You can see links to these previous episodes in chronological order here: Robert Peters Part1: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-nature-of-nantucket/id1603111080?i=1000580329288Part 2: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-nature-of-nantucket/id1603111080?i=1000581050001  Rita Leduc Part 1: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-nature-of-nantucket/id1603111080?i=1000585550872Part 2: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-nature-of-nantucket/id1603111080?i=1000586615639 Dena HadenPart 1: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-nature-of-nantucket/id1603111080?i=1000591603340Part 2: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-nature-of-nantucket/id1603111080?i=1000592752374 Dakota Clearwater LacroixPart 1: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-nature-of-nantucket/id1603111080?i=1000597616011 Part 2: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-nature-of-nantucket/id1603111080?i=1000598895019 This week we pick up our exploration of how art and the lived-experience of nature can help us heal people, places and planet. We talk about the process and philosophy of the multi-media artist Dakota Clearwater Lacroix, more specifically about Oika and how Maria Mitchell was an ancestor of Oika thinking. See more of Dakota's work here https://dakotalacroix.com/