North Cascades Institute

Dec 31, 2016Angela Burlile

As today marks the last day of 2016, what better place than Chattermarks to look back at the memories and highlights of the year here at the …
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Jun 20, 2016Institute Graduate Student

By Emily Ford, graduate student in the Institute’s 15th cohort. “VOCALIZE” attempts to share the Natural and Cultural History of the Loon through multiple ways of knowing.
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May 30, 2016Special Guest

By Véronique Robigou – Artist, Geologist, and Natural Science Illustrator. At the start of the year, I was very fortunate to join the legion of artists, naturalists, and …
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Feb 18, 2016Ben Kusserow

Véronique Robigou participated in the North Cascades Institute’s Creative Residence Program this winter, joining the tradition of poets, naturalists, dancers and researchers who have participated in the past. As described …
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Dec 18, 2015Christian Martin

I’m fortunate to get to review books for various regional publications, most often in the Cascadia Weekly. I get the privilege and pleasure of being sent many …
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Dec 4, 2015Special Guest

By Kristin Musgnug I am a landscape painter whose goal is to make paintings of the kind of places that don’t usually show up in landscape paintings …
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Dec 6, 2014NCI Creative Resident

By Sharon Birzer, artist and natural history illustrator My Creative Residency journal @ North Cascades Learning Center, Diablo Lake, July 11-18, 2014 July 11-13 The first three days …
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Aug 30, 2014Ryan Weisberg

In the middle of May, I moved halfway across the country, to a state I’d never been to, to play at a wetland with five- and six-year-olds.
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Jan 8, 2014North Cascades Institute

Join North Cascades Institute and the Whatcom Museum on January 11, 2 pm, for the Vanishing Ice Speaker Series! This final presentation in the four-part series will …
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Jul 12, 2013Special Guest

After a week in San Francisco, I returned to North Cascades Institute just in time for Jocelyn Curry’s Artful Map class. I had no idea what to …
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