Since 2019, Andrea Williamson and Nina Pariser (Spoonful of Dirt) have created and given workshops based in place-making, eco-citizenship, and community belonging through art. Rooted in a politics of deep attention and care within the multispecies environment, they aim to create spaces that encourage material, practical, and imaginative connections between participants of all ages and backgrounds and their environments. Spoonful of Dirt has presented as part of Concordia Art History’s Graduate Conference Communities of Care (2019), collaborated on eco-art programming with southwest Montreal community programs in Pointe-Saint-Charles and Verdun, FUNMTL (Finding Urban Nature), Bird Protection Québec, and Champs des possibles. More recently, they presented a workshop at Concordia’s environmental justice and creativity conference C-Change (2025), and offered youth eco-art workshops with Optica Jeunesse as part of Leisure’s Chrysalis + Butterfly exhibition (2025).

Website: spoonfulofdirt.ca
Instagram: @spoonfulofdirtcuillereedterre @andrealindaw @ninapariser

Photo: Émilie Pelletier

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Spectres of a Shared Future

Spectres of a Shared Future is a community-building art project that brings together citizen ecology, inclusive learner-centered pedagogy, and artistic disciplines to address climate and eco-anxiety, habitat loss for local species-at-risk, community-building in relation to land, and land stewardship. Throughout the residency, we will invite participants to learn about local habitats for diverse extirpated or endangered species, expanded ecological concepts and urban wild alternatives. Participants will be able to collaborate on imagined futures and ecologies where humans live in beneficial interaction with multiple species in urban or post-urban settings. These co-creation sessions will be anchored in the hope and grief of the present moment, which becomes a bridge to connect past climate ghosts with spectres of shared futures.