Creating deeper connections to the world around us. Making meaningful change happen.
Explore our new online store!
Looking for a special gift for the nature lover in your life? Check out our new store at Bonfire!
At our Bonfire site, we’ll be featuring a rotation of apparel, mugs, and other gift items that showcase illustrations that celebrate the outdoors throughout the year — and include designs for all those amazing changemakers out there!
What We Do
Facilitating institutional change work, human-centered practices, and community partnerships in museums, parks, arboretums, and other cultural and environmental nonprofits.
Place-based projects and partnerships that facilitate greater access to learning, build meaningful connections to nature and culture, and deepen community connections.
School partnerships that bring together place-based thinking, creativity, and collaboration to make a long lasting impact.
Learn more about how we can support your organization.
Who We Are
We are Mike and Bryna, the co-creators of Art | Nature | Place, and we believe that we all have a role to play in creating and supporting the change we need to see in the institutions that shape public life. Learn about how our experience as creatives and educators with over twenty years of collective experience in research, place based thinking, and arts based learning brought us to this work.
Read about our latest Projects
Community Resources:
Agents of Change
Agents of Change,” is resource and guide for those of us stepping up to become changemakers in our own organizations and communities, and a way to bring people together around key issues, questions, and strategies to make meaningful change happen. You’ll find articles, podcasts, and discussions delivered right to your inbox.
Slow Outdoors
Slow Outdoors is a guide for building meaningful connections with the natural world, and an invitation to rethink the ways we work, play, parent, move through, and even define the outdoors today. Posts come out a few times a month , delivered right to your inbox.
Read our favorites from the blog.
“Connection is why we’re here. We are hardwired to connect with others, it’s what gives purpose and meaning to our lives.”
— Brene Brown
“The Value Blueprint: Mapping Your Path to Meaningful Work” is a workshop designed for educational, cultural, environmental, and parks & recreational professionals to help uncover and articulate personal core values, learn tools to leverage those values, and to strategically plan ahead. It is held as both an online workshop for individual professionals, and as an all-day or two-day workshop for teams and organizations interested in developing and/or clarifying their values.