In Person: Talk by Dr. Danica Doroski: Urban Forests & Climate Change and Artist's Reception

Come and meet the artist and enjoy refreshments after a talk from 2:00 – 3:00 preceding the artist’s reception from 3:00 – 4:30 pm

Dr. Dana Doroski - Urban Forests and Climate Change from 2:00 – 3:00 PM (please register below)

As Roberta Shea’s prints and paintings feature vividly hued, highly textured seasonal changes in nature and trees, Dr. Danica Doroski’s, talk about urban forests and climate change seemed like a complementary subject for a talk preceding Shea’s artist’s reception.  Dr. Doroski, is the State Urban Forestry Coordinator for Connecticut.

Climate change is a global phenomenon that is negatively impacting ecosystems around the world. Urban areas, and urban forests specifically, experience these negative impacts especially acutely. While urban forests and trees in cities are vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, they are also capable of mitigating climate change and helping to offset its negative impacts.

In this talk, Dr. Danica Doroski, will explain how climate change impacts trees and forests within the urban matrix, how these urban trees and forests can in turn help to offset climate change, and discuss what this means for the management of Connecticut’s urban forests and beyond.

Doroski has been working in urban forestry and related fields for the past 10 years as a horticulturalist at the Morris Arboretum in Philadelphia, PA, a Volunteer Coordinator for the New York Restoration Project in New York City, NY, Outreach Coordinator for the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, and most recently as Statue Urban Forestry Coordinator with Connecticut’s Department of Energy and Environmental Protection.

Dr. Doroski holds a BA from Bates College in Maine, a MFS from the Yale School of the Environment, and a PhD from the Yale School of the Environment.

Artist’s Reception from 3:00 - 4:30 pm (registration not necessary)

Through passionate and perceptive observations of nature, Shea has developed a signature style of colorful, highly-textured oil painting inspired by both Abstract Expressionism and Impressionism.  With loose, bold brush strokes and color combinations, she seamlessly moves from realistic to the abstract. Through the process of layering and building up color and removing it, lines and forms emerge from her dense compositions, which capture an energetic sense of place.

Shea is a member of (SCAN) Society of Creative Arts of Newtown as well as a member of Washington Arts Association and Ridgefield Guild of Artists.  Her art is currently on exhibit at Gallery 21 at Arts Escape in Southbury, CT. The Arts League of New Britain featured her painting on the front of this year’s poster for the 2022 (CWA) Connecticut Woman Artists juried exhibition.