Exhibitions
- 2025, "Our Neighbors," Joint Solo-Exhibit, Potsdam Town Hall, SLC Arts Council, Potsdam, NY, USA
- 2024, "Cycles," Fall's Full Display, Potsdam Town Hall, SLC Arts Council, Potsdam, NY, USA
- 2024, "Through the Puddles," Fall's Full Display, Potsdam Town Hall, SLC Arts Council, Potsdam, NY, USA
- 2024, "Horizons," Fall's Full Display, Potsdam Town Hall, SLC Arts Council, Potsdam, NY, USA
- 2024, "Through the Puddles," Fall's Full Display, Potsdam Town Hall, SLC Arts Council, Potsdam, NY, USA
- 2024, "If I were a chipmunk, what would I see?" Fall's Full Display, Potsdam Town Hall, SLC Arts Council, Potsdam, NY, USA
- 2024, "The Eyes of Water," Nourishing Our Water, James F. Montpelier Gallery, SLC Arts Council, Ogdensburg, NY, USA
- 2024, "Silent Wings," Sincerely Yours, Potsdam Town Hall, SLC Arts Council, Potsdam, NY, USA
- 2024, "The Heart Of Life," Happy Times, Potsdam Town Hall, SLC Arts Council, Potsdam, NY, USA
- 2023, "Eyes of Water," Listening to Water, Richard F. Brush Gallery, Canton, NY, USA
- 2023, "Great River Spirit," Listening to Water, Richard F. Brush Gallery, Canton, NY, USA
- 2023, "The Spirit of The River of The Big Fishes," Listening to Water, Richard F. Brush Gallery, Canton, NY, USA
- 2022 to 2029, "Reclaiming Agricultural Practices," Climate Solutions Exhibit, Wild Center, Tupper Lake, NY, USA
- 2022 to 2029, "Seed Saving for Resilience," Climate Solutions Exhibit, Wild Center, Tupper Lake, NY, USA
- 2022 to 2029, "Reuniting People And Plants," Climate Solutions Exhibit, Wild Center, Tupper Lake, NY, USA
- 2022 to 2029, "Food Sovereignty As A Climate Solution," Climate Solutions Exhibit, Wild Center, Tupper Lake, NY
- 2020, Along the Ahna'wate River, Chispa, Boston, MA, USA
- 2019, Blooming, About Futures, LoosenArt, Millepianni Gallery, Rome, Italy
- 2019, Untitled, All About the Bird, Northampton, MA, USA
- 2018, Memory Flow: Water of Boston, XFest 2018, Boston, USA
- 2017, Artist Talk, ArtSalon, Northampton, USA
- 2017, BI-, Western Massachusetts Biennial, Forbes Library, Northampton, USA
- 2017, II Degrees, I_and_Place, New York K&P Gallery, New York City, USA
- 2017, II Degrees, In Response, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, USA
- 2015, Self-Portrait, SUNY Art Student Exhibition Series (SASES), Albany, USA
- 2015, Dust, BFA Senior Exhibition, Gibson Gallery, Potsdam, USA
- 2015, Memor, BFA Senior Exhibition, Gibson Gallery, Potsdam, USA
- 2015, Mirrors, BFA Senior Exhibition, Gibson Gallery, Potsdam, USA
- 2015, Change, BFA Senior Exhibition, Gibson Gallery, Potsdam, USA
- 2015, 59 Springs, BFA Senior Exhibition, Gibson Gallery, Potsdam, USA
- 2014, Dust, Lougheed Festival of the Arts, SUNY Potsdam, Potsdam, USA
- 2014, Dust, Art Attack, Gibson Gallery, Potsdam, USA
- 2013, Distance, Art Attack, Gibson Gallery, Potsdam, USA
Curated Exhibits
- 2023, Listening to Water, Richard F. Brush Gallery, Canton, NY, USA
- 2020, Water and Origin, TAUNY, Canton, NY, USA
- 2020, As The Grasse Talks, TAUNY, Canton, NY, USA
- 2020, Water and Origin, Richard f. Brush Art Gallery, Canton, NY, USA
- 2018, Memory Flow: Water of Boston, Goddard College, Montpelier, USA
- 2018, Memory Flow: Water of Boston, Deerfield Business Center, Deerfield, USA
Curated Events, Conferences & Community Conversations
- 2024, Voice of Nature Conversation, Talking Rivers, Inc., Adirondack Writing Center, Saranac Lake, NY, USA
- 2024, Science for Nature: Rights of Nature and the Scientific Method, Talking Rivers, Inc., Web, USA
- 2024, Voice of Nature Conversations, Talking Rivers, Inc., Web Community Conversation, USA
- 2024, We Love Raquette River, Talking Rivers, Inc., Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY, USA
- 2024, Who Looks After Water, Talking Rivers, Inc., Webinar, USA
- 2024, Spirits of Nature, Talking Rivers, Inc., Webinar, USA
- 2024, Deconstructing Ownership, Talking Rivers, Inc., Webinar, USA
- 2024, Microplastics Pollution in the Raquette and Grasse Rivers, St. Lawrence Health, Canton, NY, USA
- 2023, Artist Talk III: Learning, Educating and Growing, Listening to Water Art Exhibit, Richard F. Brush Gallery, Canton, NY, USA
- 2023, Artist Talk II: Environmental Storytelling, Listening to Water Art Exhibit, Richard F. Brush Gallery, Canton, NY, USA
- 2023, Water Has No Borders, Listening to Water Symposium, Talking Rivers, Inc., NY, USA
- 2023, Artist Talk I: When Water Speaks, Listening to Water Art Exhibit, Richard F. Brush Gallery, Canton, NY, USA
- 2023, Water Guardians East to West, Listening to Water Symposium, Talking Rivers, Inc., NY, USA
- 2023, The Health of the Raquette River, Listening to Water Symposium,Talking Rivers, Inc., NY, USA
- 2023, Rivers Have Rights, Talking Rivers, Inc., Potsdam, NY, USA
- 2023, Rights and Rites: Our Duties and Obligations to Nature - A Humanities New York Community Conversation, NY, USA
- 2022, Society and Nature - A Humanities New York Community Conversation, NY, USA
- 2022, North Country Rights of Nature Symposium, NY, USA
- 2020, North Country Art, Land and Environment Summit, NY, USA
- 2018, Memory Flow: Water of Boston, Deerfield Business Center, Deerfield, MA, USA
Event & Conference Presentations
- 2025, Local Ecocentric Action, Sustainability Day & Green Living Fair, SUNY Canton, Canton, NY, USA
- 2025, What Nature Needs, SUNY Oneanta College Camp, Oneanta, NY, USA
- 2025, Speaking Alongside Water, SUNY Oneanta, Oneanta, NY, USA
- 2025, Speaking Alongside Water: Honoring the Rights and Voice and Nature, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, USA
- 2025, Ocean Rights: how can the Ocean's voice be part of the decision making process, Libelula, San Diego, CA, USA
- 2025, The Lake Speaks: Protecting Water's Needs Through Art and Action, World Water Day, Plattsburgh, NY, USA
- 2025, Rights of the Great River, Great Lake Symposium, GARN North America, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
- 2025, Women of the North Country Speaker Series: Blake Lavia, SLC Arts, Potsdam, NY, USA
- 2024, We Are Nature: Eco-Centric Narratives, TEDX Tupper Lake, The Wild Center, Tupper Lake, NY, USA
- 2024, Honoring the Voice of Water, Adirondack Writing Center, Saranac Lake, NY, USA
- 2024, Stormwater Resilience Listening Session Raquette and Grasse River, ACORN, Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY, USA
- 2024, Honoring Nature and Protecting their Rights, A Daily Dose of Nature, Natural Habitat Adventures, USA
- 2024, American Eel, Indian Creek Nature Center Conservation Field Days , Indian Creek Nature Center, Canton, NY, USA
- 2024, Rights of Nature in Northeastern New York, Lake Champlain Basin Program Citizen Advisory Board, NY, USA
- 2024, Climate Rights of the Great Lakes, Climate Governance Variability in the Great Lakes Annual Meeting, Oregon, OH, USA
- 2024, Advocating for the Rights of the St. Lawrence River Watershed, State of the River, St. Lawrence Land Trust, Canton, NY, USA
- 2023, Cultivating Climate Justice, 2023 Social Justice Initiative, Unitarian Universalist Church of Canton, Canton, NY, USA
- 2023, Rivers Tell Stories, Rivers Have Rights, North Country Arts Festival, Potsdam Public Library, Potsdam, NY, USA
- 2023, Art and Climate: A Climate Solution Conversation with Talking Wings, Wild Center, Tupper Lake, NY, USA
- 2023, An Introduction to Rights of Nature: Exploring Rights for Great Salt Lake, Save Our Great Salt Lake, UT, USA
- 2023, Rights of Nature Panel, Climate Governance Variability in the Great Lakes Annual Meeting, Duluth, MN, USA
- 2023, Rights of Rivers and Soil, Food Justice Summit, Feedback: Food is Health, Wild Center, Tupper Lake, NY, USA
- 2023, Talking Wings Online Workshop, Towards a Post-Extractive Culture, Amsterdam, Netherlands
- 2022, Rights of Nature: Before We Run Dry, Balancing the Biome: Rights of Nature, Save The Great Salt Lake, UT, USA
- 2022, Weaving Rivers: Creating an Online Network of River Guardians, Embracing Contradictions, Impossible Projects' 4th Biannual Symposium, Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY, USA
- 2022, The Future of Adirondack Stewardship: Climate, Ecology, and Community, Adirondacks for All, Adirondacks, NY, USA
- 2022, Dia de la Pachamama, Casa Latina, Mexico
- 2022, Cuarto Foro Internacional por los Derechos de la Madre Tierra-Naturaleza, Santiago, Chile
- 2022, Sustainability Day & Green Living Fair, Canton, NY, USA
- 2022, International Secretariat of Water, Akwesasne
- 2021, Feed Back Summit, Cragardan, ADK, NY, USA
- 2020, The Doctrine of Discovery, SUNY Potsdam, Potsdam, NY, USA
- 2017, Artist Talk, ArtSalon, Northampton, MA, USA
- 2014, Learning and Research Fair, SUNY Potsdam, Potsdam, NY, USA
- 2013, NCUR, University of Wisconsin, La Crosse, WI, USA
- 2013, Upstate New York Undergraduate Research Conference, St. Lawrence University, Canton NY, USA
- 2013, Learning and Research Fair, SUNY Potsdam, Potsdam, NY, USA
Publications
- 2024, "Dance With Me," Water, Issue #1, Eco-Assembly New York
- 2024, Co-Authored: "The Watersheds Speak: [...]" Journal of Rural Sociology
- 2023, Co-Authored: "Talking Rivers: Rights and Responsibilities," Summer 2023 Lakes Letter, IAGLAR
- 2023, "When We Became Trees," CELDF
- 2023, Co-Authored: "The North Country Rights of Rivers Movement," Rewinding Earth
- 2022, Co-Authored: "When Rivers Speak," Weaving Alternatives #07, A Global Tapestry of Alternatives
- 2022, "Grasse and Arno Rivers," Confluence: A Tapestry of Rivers and their Guardians
- 2021, Co-Authored: "Spoken Earth Dances," Issue 4, The GARDAN Journal
- 2021, "The River Says NO," The Guardians of the Watershed Series, ROAR MAGAZINE
- 2020, "Growers and Protectors," The Guardians of the Watershed Series, ROAR MAGAZINE
- 2020, "A Stingless Collaboration", The Guardians of the Watershed Series, ROAR MAGAZINE
- 2020, White Privilege, COVID-19 and the End of Capitalism, The Weave News
- 2019, In Between..., The Sea Letter, ISSN: 2576-5167 (Published as Veronica Lavia)
- 2018, Golden Spirals, River River Journal (Published as Veronica Lavia)
- 2018, I Opened A Book And Saw The Sky, The Sea Letter, ISSN: 2576-5167 (Published as Veronica Lavia)
- 2017, Shadows on the Concrete, The Library of Rejected Beauty (Published as Veronica Lavia)
- 2016, By Definition, Acentos Review (Published as Veronica Lavia)
Grants
- 2024, J. M. McDonald Foundation, NY
- 2024, Freshwater Future, NY
- 2024, Cloudsplitter Foundation, NY
- 2024, Micro-Grant, Norther New York Community Foundation, NY
- 2024, Humanities New York Action Grant, NY
- 2023, Humanities New York Quick Grant, NY
- 2023, Assessing Attitudes towards Rights of Nature (AARoN), Center Of Excellence, Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY
- 2022, Humanities New York Action Grant, NY
- 2020, Humanities New York Action Grant, NY
- 2020, Arts Collaborative Grant, St. Lawrence University, Canton, NY
- 2020, Humanities New York Vision Grant, NY
- 2020, Swift Foundation, USA
Film Festivals
- 2023, Semi-Finalist, Knot of Silence, Florida Shorts, USA
- 2022, Semi-Finalist, Knot of Silence, Paris International Festival, Paris
- 2022, Nominee, Knot of Silence, Vesuvius International Film Fest, Italy
- 2021, Award Winner for Best Short Documentary, How to Change, London Indie Short Fest, London, UK
- 2021, Nominee for Best Short Documentary, How to Change, San Francisco Indie Short Festival, San Francisco, USA
- 2021, Official Selection, How to Change, Vesuvius International Film Fest, Italy
- 2021, Finalist for Best Short Documentary, How to Change, Toronto Independent Film Festival of Cift, Canada
- 2021, Finalist for Best Short Documentary, How to Change, Cooper Awards
- 2021, Nominee for Best Short Documentary, How to Change, London Shorts , London, UK
- 2021, Official Selection, How to Change, Life Screenings International Short Film Festival , Clermont, FL
- 2017, Official Selection, oSHen, TU 35 Expanded, Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy
- 2016, Official Selection, Dust, BLOW UP: Chicago International Arthouse Film Festival, Chicago, USA- 2014, Award Winner, 59 Springs, Underground Film Festival, St. Lawrence University, Canton, USA
Podcasts & Radio
- 2024, "Water is Life," Green Dreamer, Online
- 2023, "Does Nature Have Rights? A Conversation..." Radio Kingston, NY, USA
- 2022, "Interweaving #25, Thinking Beyond Settler Systems" The Weave News, Canton, NY, USA
- 2022, "Human rights, animal rights, but what about the rights of nature itself?", North Country Public Radio, Canton, NY, USA
- 2020, "Larger, Freer, More Loving," USA
- 2020, "Asian American Herald," NY, USA
- 2020, "North Country artists, scholars take action to tackle climate change," North Country Public Radio (NCPR), Canton, NY, USA
- 2020, "El Show de la Tierra - Colectivo Talking Wings," Coatepec, Veracruz, MX
- 2020, "Interweaving #16: COVID 19 Diaries," The Weave News, Canton, NY, USA
Press
- 2024, "Talking Wings, Queer Ecologies, and Rights of Rivers," Terrain. org, USA
- 2023, "We're Trying to Move a Society," The Weave News, Canton, NY, USA
- 2022, "Potsdam Passes Resolution Giving Raquette River Legal Rights," InformNNY.com, NY, USA
- 2022, "Artists Behind CELDF's New Rights of Nature Logo," CELDF, USA
- 2022, "In Defense of Nature," August 14, 2022 , Adirondack Explorer, Saranac Lake, NY, USA- 2022, "Practicing Laws of Nature," July - August 2022, Adirondack Explorer, Saranac Lake, NY, USA
- 2022, "Wild Center Highlights Adirondackers Working to Curb Climate Change," Adirondack Explorer, Saranac Lake, NY, USA
- 2022, "Bill of Rights for North Country Waterways," ABC50 NOW, Watertown, NY, USA
- 2022, "Rights of Nature Symposium Planned," March 5-11, North Country This Week, NY, USA
- 2022, "St. Lawrence University Receives $10,000 Grant to Support North Country Waterways Project," Watertown, NY, USA
- 2022, "University Receives $10,000 Grant to Support North Country Waterways Project," SLU, NY, USA
- 2021, "Environmental Storytelling in the St. Lawrence River Watershed," Humanities New York
- 2020, "Art, Land and Environment Summit underway in St. Lawrence County," NNY 360, USA
- 2020, "Through upcoming Environmental Summit, two North Country filmmakers...", ABC 50 Now, Watertown, NY, USA
Jury and Grant Review Work
- 2022, HNY Action Grant Reviewer, Humanities New York, NY, USA
- 2021, Juror for Short Documentary Category, Circus International Film Festival
Advisory and Board Positions
- 2024, Board Member at Potsdam Food Coop
- 2023/2024, NOAA Great Lakes Bay Watershed Education and Training Program, ADK Watershed Institute, Paul Smith College, NY
- 2023, Founder and President of the Board of Director at Talking Rivers, Inc.
Editorial Work
Education
BFA in Visual Arts, SUNY Potsdam, NY (2011-2015)
-Major: Visual Arts - Minor: Film Studies
-Graduated May 2015
Honors & Awards
- 2015, Summa Cum Laude, SUNY Potsdam, Potsdam, NY
- 2014, President Award for Art Attack 2014 Exhibition, SUNY Potsdam, Potsdam, NY
- 2014, Kilmer Undergraduate Research Award, SUNY Potsdam, Potsdam, NY
- 2014, President’s List, SUNY Potsdam, Potsdam, NY
- 2014, Art Departmental Scholar, SUNY Potsdam, Potsdam, NY
- 2013, Art Department Award for Art Attack 2013 Exhibition, SUNY Potsdam, Potsdam, NY
- 2013, Kilmer Undergraduate Research Apprenticeship, SUNY Potsdam, Potsdam, NY
- 2013, President’s List, SUNY Potsdam, Potsdam, NY
- 2013, Art Departmental Scholar, SUNY Potsdam, Potsdam, NY
- 2013, Outstanding Freshman in Philosophy, SUNY Potsdam, Potsdam, NY
- 2012, Kilmer Undergraduate Research Apprenticeship, SUNY Potsdam, Potsdam, NY
- 2012, President’s List, SUNY Potsdam, Potsdam, NY