Shiftworks Kayak Tour Returns ✰ August + September, 2024

Photo by Ishara Henry

I’ve been commissioned by Shiftworks to design a tour in the public realm again this summer. Join me for kayak tours to Sycamore Island in August and September, 2024.

Sycamore Island is one of the few undeveloped islands in Allegheny County. Managed by the Allegheny Land Trust, Sycamore Island hosts a significant floodplain hardwood forest and presents an opportunity for the public to visit and experience a woodland that is imperiled in Pennsylvania.

Participants will be led on island walking trails with a series of listening prompts. Tour goers will practice redirecting attention by closely listening to distant, subtle, and shifting sounds, increasing awareness of our larger sonic environment.

Learn more and register here.

Sycamore Island Tour ✰ October 7, 2023

I was commissioned to lead a tour with the Pittsburgh Office for Public Art as part of a new series of artist-designed walking tours during the late summer and early fall of 2023. I led a kayak tour to Sycamore Island, one of the few undeveloped islands in Allegheny County, for a listening walk throughout the island.

Explore more documentation here. Photos thanks to Visuals by Ishara.