Leah Wilson's creative practice encompasses drawing, painting, photography, sculpture, writing, and storytelling. A 2012 artist residency at the HJ Andrews Experimental Forest in the Oregon Cascades introduced her to ecologists working on long-term studies and field research. Attracted by the enduring focus of inquiry into a specific place, she is an episodic lifetime artist in residence at the Andrews Forest. Elements of her relationship with the Andrews Forest and its community are evident throughout each project including Listening to the Forest, a large-scale public art installation at Oregon State University’s George W. Peavy Forest Science Center. As an embedded artist in a field research team, Wilson is currently partnering with ecologists in a long-term placed-based study of the Klamath River, a river undergoing the historic simultaneous removal of four dams. This project will continue until the ecosystem stabilizes and provides a sustained opportunity to explore, expand, and play with the possibilities of art-science partnerships that increase the scopes and audiences of traditional territories and communities of both disciplines. Leah Wilson earned an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and her BFA from the Art Institute of Southern California. She has been an artist in residence at Playa, Pine Meadow Ranch, Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest, and the HJ Andrews Experimental Forest. When she is not making art or collecting data in the field with an ecologist, Leah can often be found outside greeting the sun as it rises, running trails through a forest, bouncing down a rapid, or climbing a very old and tall tree.