![]() How to Get to the River is an urban watershed adventure walk that leads participants from the Academy of Natural Sciences down Cherry Street through a micro-watershed of the Schuylkill River. $7 per person or free with Academy admission Learn more about the artists Annea Lockwood and Liz Phillips. Not a member? Join now!Ĭurrent members, check out the Members’ Guide for more information about your admission benefits. Members receive free admission to The River Feeds Back. Both works have been created as part of Water Year 2022, a yearlong celebration and investigation of water designed to inspire a more intimate connection with our local waterways and the vital need to protect them.Īll exhibits are included with the purchase of a general admission ticket Both projects are presented as part of Watershed Moment: How to Get to the River, an art adventure walk (opening August 3, 2022). The River Feeds Back is a companion piece to Lockwood and Phillips’ outdoor installation, Inside the Watershed on the Schuylkill River Trail, in which passersby can experience a live feed from the river as well as a sound composition. The River Feeds Back attunes us to the life-giving waterways of the Schuylkill, vital sources of water for Philadelphia. Experience swirling currents, water slipping and rushing over rocks, the underwater lives of aquatic insects and fish, trumpeting geese crashing into water, chirping birds, cheeping frogs, and the long, slow sweeps of toad calls. Recorded at sites along the 135 miles of the Schuylkill River from its headwaters to its mouth, this layered sound map offers glimpses of the river system above and below the water’s surface through a variety of listening portals made of wood, slate and clay pottery. In The River Feeds Back, you can traverse these aquatic environments through an immersive sound installation created by artists Annea Lockwood and Liz Phillips. The Lenni Lenape call the Schuylkill River the Ganshowahanna, or roaring waters, for its noisy course over rocks and stones, and the Wissahickon Creek the Wisameckhan, or cat-fish stream. Inside the Watershed, a sound installation on Schuylkill River TrailĪ sound installation by artists Annea Lockwood and Liz Phillips.Attunement, a sculpture on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway.How to Get to the River, a watershed art adventure walk. ![]() The River Feeds Back, a sound installation in the Academy’s Dietrich Gallery.The artworks, which can be experienced individually or together, in any order, include: Taken together, the four projects create an interwoven experience that will draw visitors into an intimate relationship with the Lower Schuylkill River watershed and the flow of water everywhere. It is comprised of four installations created by artists in response to watershed science and the physical realities of water as it moves across and through our urban landscape. Centered around the importance of watershed thinking in our lives, Watershed Moment is designed to inspire a greater connection with our local waterways and the vital need to protect them. The Academy of Natural Science of Drexel University presents Watershed Moment, the signature artwork of the Academy’s Water Year celebration that provides fresh perspectives on the water systems that bind us together. Roland Wall, Director of the Patrick Center for Environmental Research, The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University “I would urge that we ‘think like a watershed’ … mindful of the intricate human and natural connections that link the greater water system.”
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