Speaker Series

2026 CAM Speaker Series

The College of Arts & Media at the University of Colorado Denver is bringing artists, creatives, innovators, and visionaries to campus to share their insights and talents with our community for the inaugural CAM Speaker Series.

Visiting artists will join classrooms, attend meetings, and host public talks during their time here. All talks are free and open to the public with registration.

March 11, 2027

Berries, Butterflies, and Thunder

4:30 - 5:30 p.m.
Tivoli Turnhalle

In Berries, Butterflies, and Thunder, a botanist, poet, philosopher, and visual artist come together to discuss their work, with the shared understanding that the arts and sciences are mutually enhancing disciplines. This interdisciplinary conversation aims to challenge us to listen to the natural world, suspend our assumptions about human centrality among complex and interdependent ecosystems, and grapple with abundant and sustainable futures.

Alison Hawthorne Deming is a poet, essayist and teacher, formerly the Agnese Nelms Haury Chair in Environmental and Social Justice and currently Regents Professor Emerita in Creative Writing at the University of Arizona Tucson. She received a 2015 Guggenheim Fellowship. Recent books include Blue Flax & Yellow Mustard Flower, a book of poems, and A Woven World, a book of non-fiction.

Kathleen Dean Moore is an environmental philosopher and writer whose work focuses on climate action. Her early creative nonfiction writing focused on the cultural and spiritual values of the natural world, especially shorelines and islands. Her more recent work is about the moral issues of climate change. Her books include the co-edited Moral Ground: Ethical Action for a Planet in Peril, along with Piano Tide: A Novel, Great Tide Rising, Wild Comfort, and others. Moore is the co-founder of the Spring Creek Project for Ideas, Nature, and the Written Word at Oregon State University, where she serves as Distinguished Professor of Philosophy.

Robin Wall Kimmerer is a plant ecologist, author, member of the Potawatomi Citizen Nation, and the former director of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry. She is the author of the New York Times bestseller Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom and Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants as well as Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses, among other publications. Kimmerer is a 2022 MacArthur Fellow and was named to the Time’s list of the 100 Most Influential People of 2025.

Nathalie Miebach is an artist whose work explores the intersection of art and science by translating scientific data related to meteorology, ecology and oceanography into woven sculptures and musical scores and installations. Miebach has received a Pollack-Krasner Award, a Virginia A. Groot Foundation Award, and a TED Global Fellowship, among other honors and awards. Her work has been shown at venues around the globe.

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