Selected Talks
2021
"Prairie Landscapes Rediscovered" Virtual presentation and panel discussion with the Keller Science Action Center, Field Museum, Chicago, IL
"Picturing the Prairie, A Vision of Restoration", Virtual presentation and discussion with Wendy Paulson. Avid Bookshop, Athens, GA
2020
"Picturing the Prairie", Keynote presentation. Citizens for Conservation. Barrington, IL
"The Art of Conservation", artist lecture, College of Environment and Design, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia
2018
"Falling in Love with Southeastern Grasslands, Paintings from Prairie to Páramo" Fuqua Lecture, Atlanta Botanical Garden, Atlanta, GA
"Falling in Love with Southeastern Grasslands, Paintings from Prairie to Páramo", Plenary Speaker, Cullowhee Conference on Native Plants, Cullowhee, NC
2017
"Prairie to Páramo: A Landscape Painter Falls in Love with the Forgotten Grasslands of the Southeast and Beyond", keynote speaker, Southeastern Grasslands Initiative summit, Clarksville, TN
2016
"Framed by Longleaf: An Artist's Perspective," plenary speaker, 11th biennial Longleaf Alliance Conference, Savannah, GA
2015
"Painting Fire Into the Landscape" plenary speaker, Georgia Prescribed Fire Council annual meeting, Tifton, GA
"Rediscovering the Southern Landscape of the 18th Century" and "The Art of William Bartram" Presentations by Philip Juras and Janice Simon. Special Collections Library, University of Georgia, Athens, GA
2014
"Searching for the Southern Frontier: Landscapes Inspired by Bartram’s Travels," Cherokee Garden Library Lecture, Atlanta History Center, Atanta, GA
2013
"Searching for the Southern Frontier: Landscapes Inspired by Bartram's Travels," keynote speaker, St. George Tucker Society annual meeting, Augusta, GA
"Searching for the Southern Frontier: Landscapes Inspired by Bartram's Travels," keynote speaker, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Partners for Fish and Wildlife and Coastal Program Training, Lafayette, LA
"Is a Picture Worth a Thousand Fires?", 4th Fire Behavior and Fuels Conference, Raleigh, NC
2012
"Envisioning Southern Grasslands with William Bartram", keynote speaker, Southeastern Prairie Symposium, Starkville, MS
"Visions of the Presettlement South", South Carolina Native Plants Symposium, keynote speaker, Clemson, SC
2011
"Searching for William Bartram's Southern Frontier", Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA
"The Sublime Nature of a Dynamic Coast", Coastal Wildscapes, Richmond Hill, GA
"Searching for Bartram's Southern Frontier" Artist lecture, Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, GA
"Searching for the Southern Frontier" Artist lecture sponsored by the city of Savannah, Telfair Museum, Savannah, GA
"Finding Bartram’s Landscapes in the Modern-day South" Conference on William Bartram's Georgia, Savannah, GA
2010
"Forgotten Grasslands: Envisioning the Presettlement Piedmont", The Evelyn McNeill Sims Lecture at the North Carolina Botanical Garden, Chapel Hill, NC
"Behind the Scenes: A Landscape Painter Drinks Science Kool-aid," cosponsored by the Environmental Ethics Certificate Program and the Department of Geology at The University of Georgia, Athens, GA.
2009
"Portraying the presettlement Southeast through oil paintings of remnant grassland communities," 6th Eastern Native Grass Symposium, Columbia, SC.