Lisa Kitchens is a multidisciplinary artist, nature-based educator, and student of Nature. She originally hails from Georgia (the traditional, unceded land of the Muscogee Nation), where she grew up in small towns across the state. Her work explores the intersection of the arts and Nature, and she takes particular interest in the connection we have to the other-than-human world as well as the interconnectedness of communities around the world. Lisa is the founder of Earth Stories Initiative, an initiative that uses storytelling and art to connect young children living in cities to the natural world. She was a 2018 recipient of the Voices of the Wilderness Artist Residency through the USDA Forest Service and US Fish and Wildlife Service on Togiak National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska. Her original play, The Edge of the Earth, was created and developed from her time spent in Alaska and was performed at the Sugar Hill Children's Museum of Art and Storytelling in 2019. She has facilitated numerous workshops with children from around the country exploring relationships with and responsibility to Place. Lisa holds an MFA from the American Conservatory Theater and a BFA from The University of Evansville. www.lisakitchens.com

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