The Civic Life of Trees: Art, Health, and the Urban Canopy In-Person
What changes when we stop seeing trees as background scenery and begin seeing them as vital participants in civic life?
In this artist talk, photographer and civic artist Andrea Anderson Gluckman introduces Civic Canopy, an interdisciplinary art project exploring the relationships between urban trees, human health, community, and place. Through photography, aerial imagery, mapping, research, and experimental forms of civic portraiture and documentation, Civic Canopy asks us to look more closely at the trees that share our neighborhoods—and to consider what becomes visible when we do.
Drawing on research into the mental, physical, emotional, and social benefits of trees, Gluckman will explore how interaction with trees can function as a form of health and social infrastructure, as well as playing a civic role in urban life.
At its heart, however, Civic Canopy is an artistic inquiry into attention and relationship. What can art reveal that data alone cannot? And how might seeing trees differently change the ways we understand health, belonging, care, and our place within the more-than-human community?
- Date:
- Saturday, November 7, 2026
- Time:
- 12:00pm - 1:30pm
- Time Zone:
- Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
- Location:
- Central - Rundel Arts Room
- Library:
- Central Library
- Audience:
- Adults All Ages
- Categories:
- Department - Arts & Literature