The Watershed Project
The Wilds of Wetlands
Artists in the Schools Program Point Reyes Station
In the 2006–2007 school year, The Artists in the Schools Program collaborated with the second through fifth grades at West Marin School and the combined third and fourth grades at Bolinas-Stinson School to create an exhibition at Toby’s Art Gallery in Point Reyes focusing on the Wetlands.
The West Marin schoolchildren followed the flow of water as it traversed the watershed from the tiny creeks originating high up in the hills of Samuel P. Taylor Park, to Lagunitas Creek, to the freshwater Olema Marsh, to a saltwater marsh in Tomales Bay and then out to sea. They also experienced the fresh and brackish waters at Abbott’s Lagoon.
The Bolinas-Stinson students explored the marsh at the edge of the Bolinas Lagoon. Their installation focused on the animal and plant life of these wetlands in art and writing.
Diego Luis Contreras, 3rd grade, Abbott’s Lagoon
Chick, (artist unknown)
Chelsea Buteux, 7th grade, Common Yellowthroat
Marsh Wren Perched Near a Red-Winged Blackbird Nest, (artist unknown)
Rufous-Sided Towhee, (artist unknown)
Contributors
Many talented individuals are featured in the West Marin Review. Please click below for this volume’s contributors.
- Cover
- Thomas Heinser Jersey Heifer
- Prose
- David Miller Wallace Stegner, West Marin, and the Geography of Hope
- Claire Peaslee Plunge
- Jules Evens Lightness of Being
- Michael Parmeley Tea Time
- Nancy Kelly Seasons
- Dewey Livingston M.B.Boissevain, Farm Advisor, 1924–1933
- Mark Dowie The Fiction of Wilderness
- Jody Farrell Picnic in the Park
- Doris Ober Owl Out of Heaven
- Sage Van Wing Brothers At Arms
- Steve Heilig Secret Vacation
- Tucker Malarkey Eating the Environment
- Elisabeth Ptak Bishop Pine
- Poetry
- Larry Hampton Untitled (A salmon hears)
- Robert Hass September, Inverness
- Barbara Swift Brauer Changing Forecast
- John Korty The Rules of Composition
- Nancy Bertelsen Graffiti Bridge
- Devi Weisenberg Elders at Shell Beach
- Samonti Smith Advertisement
- Talyha Romo Untitled (I am from the trophies)
- Natalie Goldberg For M.H.; Poem
- Agnes Wolohan Smuda von Burkleo Blackberry Pie II
- Art + Artifact
- Jack Welpott North Coast
- Steve Pring Swimming in Tomales Bay
- Cheryl Higgins Redwing
- Todd Pickering Limantour Beach Sand
- Nancy Stein Wave #8
- Susan Hall Bay Fishing
- Marna Clarke Madrone #29
- Silas Blunk Untitled Works
- Dan McCormick Restorative Art on Olema Creek
- Wendy Schwartz Wood Shop, Route One
- Marty Knapp Blue Oak Group; Hillside Oaks
- Igor Sasevitch Adios Point Reyes Station
- Andrew Romanoff Diving Bird
- Artists in the Schools Program The Watershed Project
- Patrick Gavin Duffy Steep Ravine Cabin #4
- Jack Wellpot Requiem for Wendy
- Inez Storer Highway 101, L.A. Postcard
- Leslie Goldberg Caution
- Music
- Joyce Kouffman Winter Reverie