Join us for an artist talk with Danielle Petti at the end of her Art in the Park Residency, a residency program organized by Parks Canada and The Rooms

FA 224, Fine Arts Building

Danielle Petti (Waterloo, Ontario) works across paper, sculpture, photography, and site-responsive installation to (re)connect with Land through colour sourced from rocks. Her practice explores material agency, geological time, and sustainable methods—handmade recycled paper, rock-derived pigments, and low-tox processes—while asking what it means to make art in a conscious material world. In this talk, Danielle shares work from her MFA exhibition Brought to our knees to feel as a Rock and introduces new research from her residency with The Rooms in Gros Morne. She will discuss collaborations with scientists (microscopy, biochar, as well as upcoming living lab and forest projects). Framing foraging as both method and ethics, Danielle considers the role of biodegradable media and the artist as a listener to nonhuman mark-making, inviting questions about time, extraction, and how art participates in the ecologies it touches.