Recent Writing
- My ongoing newsletter archive
- 10 Questions for an Artist Who Grows Her Own Pigments, Hyperallergic, 2023
- Feral Hues: A Guide to Painting with Weeds, PS Hudson, 2023
- SENSING SCALE IN EXPERIMENTAL GARDENS: UN-LAWNING WITH SILPHIUM CIVIC SCIENCE, Ecozone: Gardening Against the Anthropocene, in collaboration with Aubrey Streit Krug and Anna Andersson, The Land Institute, 2023
- Ecological art in cities: exploring the potential for art to promote and advance nature-based solutions, in the book Nature-Based Solutions for Cities, collaboration with Chris Kennedy and Patricia Lee Watts, 2023
- Practicing plant-human solidarity : critical ecosocial art, phytocentric pedagogy, and the lawn (re)disturbance laboratory, PhD Dissertation, December 2021
- Repatterning with Kudzu: Reckoning in Search of Regeneration, HKW Anthropocene Curriculum, February 2021
- The Next Epoch Seed Library’s Lawn Lab: A Public Experiment in Collaboration with Seeds, Time, and Weeds, Media + Environment, Volume 2, Issue 1, August 2020.
- Why Say Weed in the Capitalocene?, Drain Magazine, March 2020
- Reflections on the Urban Evolution of White Clover and Why Say Weed In the Anthropocene, Inhabiting the Anthropocene, Fall 2018
- Weedy Resistance: Multispecies Tactics for Contesting “The Age of Man”, Inhabiting the Anthropocene, May 2017.
- Invasive Pigments and Novel Hues: The Spectrum of an Urban Plant Community, Landscape Architecture Futures, November 2015 (screen res PDF)
- Feral Landscape Love: Novel Ecosystems in the Studio and the Street, Brooklyn Rail Social Ecologies Issue, November 2015
Recent Press
- “Feral Hues” Shares a World View Through Plants and Colors“, Interview with Sina Basila Hickey, Hudson Mohawk Magazine, September 2023
- 10 Questions for an Artist Who Grows Her Own Pigments, Hyperallergic, 2023
- Seeds and Time Travel, The Fields, Heritage Radio Network, January 2021
- Our Shared Field podcast, May 2, 2021
- “Uncovering the Seeds of a Post-Lawn Future,” Allison Meier, City Lab, Summer 2019
- “Coping with Climate Change,” Louis Bury, Hyperallergic, Spring 2019
- Other Voices, Other Worlds, Stephen Zacks, Art in America, December 2018.
- “Trump’s EPA Is a Disaster, So These Artists Made Their Own”, Claire Voon, Vice Magazine, June 11, 2018.
- “A Solid Artistic Argument That We Should Replace EPA Leaders With Actual Weeds”, Kriston Capps, Washington City Paper, May 24, 2018.
- Painting with Invasive Pigments, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, Front Matter Blog, January 2018
- Seeding the Next Epoch, Urban Omnibus, December 2017
- All Weeds are Welcome Here, Let it Grow magazine, October 2017.
- “Ecologies of Elsewhere: Giving Urban Weeds a ‘Third Glance’”, The Nature of Cities, Daniel Philips, September 2017.
- A Group Show Rooted in Weeds, Kate Sierzputowski for Hyperallergic, July 2017
- Radical Organizing with Weedy Resistance, Garden Collage, May 2017
- Alumnae/instructor profile for CUNY TV: Study with the Best, The Environment, January 29, 2017
- Open Fields: Big and Small Data Reinvented by Flies, Weeds, and Kisses, Regine Debatty, We Make Money Not Art, October 2016
- Extracting a Rainbow of Color from Invasive Plants, Hyperallergic review of Chroma Botanica by Seph Rodney, June 2016
- A Eulogy for the Weeds, We Make Money Not Art interview with Régine Debatty, May 2016
- An Ecologically Minded Artist Navigating the Nature-Culture Continuum, Hyperallergic interview with Ben Valentine, May 2016
- Capturing Nature’s Colors, article about Chroma Botanica by Gabrielle Afero for Our Town, May 2016
- Next Epoch Seed Library: An Interview with Anne Percoco and Ellie Irons by Milcah Bassel, Dime and Honey, May 2016
- For the Love of Immigrant Weeds, article by Dyani Sabin for Scienceline, January 2016
- A Sanctuary for Weeds: Social Ecologies at the Gallery at Industry City, article by Rebecca Smith for Art Critical, January 2016
- An Atlas of Endangered Surfaces: A Conversation between Ellie Irons and Christopher Kennedy, Temporary Art Review, January 2016
- The “Endangered” Surfaces of Hunters Point South, article about Chance Ecologies by Ben Pardee, Urban Ominbus, October 2015