Researchers

With a focus on divergent ways of knowing, Dr. Lee Ann Woolery pioneered Art-Based Perceptual Ecology (ABPE), a unique interdisciplinary approach for studying ecological systems. As an interdisciplinary researcher, scholar, a practicing artist, and educator of over 30 years, Woolery holds a Ph.D. in Environmental Studies from Antioch University New England and a master’s degree from The School of The Art Institute of Chicago. Her field study in desert ecology was conducted in the Sonoran Desert in both Arizona and Mexico. Dr. Woolery’s dissertation “Art-Based Perceptual Ecology as a way of knowing the language of place” and her article “Knowing the language of place through the arts” can be found on her website: Eco Art Expeditions www.ecoartexpeditions.com
Working at the confluence of art and science, employing Art-Based Perceptual Ecology research methods in collaboration with scientific inquiry, her biodiversity inventory studies with terrestrial plants includes, walking and visually documenting the subject through a line transect study and multiple ABPE methods such as shadow studies, sound maps and other sensory data collection methods.