In 2024, I was an artist-in-residence at Shoals Marine Lab, a field station off the coast of Maine. I worked with the scientists and students on a project called “The Importance of Darkness” which focused on the importance of night-time, shadows, and dark skies for the flourishing of sea life the human imagination. The work and research was later exhibited at Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art.

In 2023 and 2025, I was an artist-in-residence and Lucille Walton Fellow at Mountain Lake Biological Station in Pembroke Virginia. There, I co-founded the research/art group “The Sensing Lab,” which focuses on studying the sensory experiences of other beings. The first iteration of the Sensing Lab involved myself, sound artist Stephen Vitiello, and video artist Meredith Leich. In 2025, we co-created a film called “The Pond” which has been shown at Governor’s Island in NYC and at ArtYard in Frenchtown, New Jersey.

In the field with graduate student biologists at Mountain Lake Biological Station

Over the years I have taught many classes and workshops focused on Interspecies Collaboration, the concept of Umwelt, and fostering Interspecies Empathy through art-making. Here are some photos of my work with Smith College Undergraduates at MacLeish Field Station in Northampton Massachusetts, through a program called Arts Afield in collaboration with the Boutelle-Day Poetry Center.

Fieldwork at Sitka Center for Art and Ecology

I’m also part of the collaborative Sprechgesang Institute. S.I. is a research-based platform for artists, scientists, and musicians working between disciplines. “We believe in the ability of conversations between genres to produce fresh and innovative perspectives, offering room to breathe without boundaries, space to improvise and to question conventions. We host regular lectures, workshops, and dinners to draw connections, facilitate discussion, and create new cross-disciplinary languages.” – S.I.

Collaborative performative dinner with Sprechgesang Institute in NYC, directed by my sister and collaborator, Sarah K Williams.

Starting in 2020, I began research in the archives and collections at the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard with a team of incredibly generous students and researchers. My experience at MCZ led directly to the “Dreams of Small Animals” series, which has been exhibited in NY, CO, and NJ. Over the past six years, I have visited natural history museum archives and special collections across the country, interviewing scientists about their relationships with their subjects of study and thinking about how we frame our relationships with animals. This research is ongoing.

The Museum of Comparative Zoology Archives, Harvard University