Author: Lee Lee
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Breaking Ground in the Hell-strip
Breaking Ground in the Hell-strip The Stiles Center is honored to have received funding from Denver Arts & Venues PS You Are Here program for gardens in the ‘hell-strip’ around the center. Join us as we establish no-water, stone crevice gardens that explore historical plant relationships held by African Americans. Through a series of themed…
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The Stiles African American Heritage Gardens
One of the most inspiring people for me as a young artist growing up in Denver was Grace Stiles, founder of the Stiles African American Heritage Center in Five Points. For over 40 years, she had taught in the Denver Public Schools and was dismayed at the history book representation of African Americans being little…
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A Walk up the Zarka Valley
In contrast to the fragmented systems we found around Fez, the Zarka Valley has a functional network of acequia. Little need for a mayor domo to direct the use of water, there is plenty to take when needed, as the river fed by the Zarka (blue) spring flows constantly. The fields are growing corn, interspersed…
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Printmaking at Green Olive Arts
Summer 2022 – Tetouan, Morocco As we explored the living history of Acequias in the Rif, we collected plants that thrived along the networks of waterways and outcroppings in the area. Our studio time was focused on making impressions of these plants on the press provided by Green Olive Arts. Instead of making individual plates,…
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Pierce Pond: 2022 Restoration
Updates to the restoration of the fish ladder leading into Pierce’s Pond
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Urban Acequia
A tour of an urban farm in Tetouan, Morocco shows a surprising array of rural life in the urban corridor along the Martil river.
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Mountains Beyond Mountains
Restoration Liberation2019 Ghetto Biennial Katelyn Alexis + Getho Jean Baptiste + Wesner Bazile + Rossi Jacques Casimir + Noel Edgard aka Papouche + Lee Lee + Mimi Sheller + moira williams We are exploring historic connections between Maine and Haiti with a series of workshops and performances; looking at the entangled mobilities between plant-human and…
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Sea Shanties and SEED Stories
Celebrating the new gardens designed and built by Lee Lee at the Pendleton House, the beds set the stage for a display of Haitian artworks and maritime paintings during first Blue Hill Maritime Heritage Festival. In consideration of the historic use of the building to house sailors who needed temporary housing between seafaring journeys, garden…
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