Spring Creek Projects

layer of pebbles and rocks on the bottom of a creek bed

Explore some of the programs, series, and projects that Spring Creek Project has hosted and produced in the past two decades. Use the drop-down menu below to sort by theme.

mountain range on a cloudy day

A Reading with Gary Snyder

drawing of different species of bugs

Art and Entomology

a group of artists walking to the top of mary's peak

ARTscend Marys Peak

etched drawing of sun setting behind mountains

Bearing Witness Book Launch

surface of a rock

Bedrock Lecture Series

oil pump at dusk

Bedrock Rights Film

moss on a tree branch in a forest

Blue River Writers Gathering

leav

Campus Rambles

Earwig by Ammon Cheney (2013 Campus Creature Census student art winner)

Campus Wild

clouds on the horizon viewed from a high peak

Champinefu Lecture Series

ripples made by a drop of water in a pond

Climate Stories in Action

group of kids at crooked tails summer camp

Crooked Tail Science & Songwriting Camp

creek bed in front of a mountain range on a sunny day

Ecological Reflections Article Series

hat resting on the stump of a cut down tree

Forest Memorial Service

creek bed running through a forest

Forest Under Story

instrumental band playing on stage

Heart of a Forest

Oregon State University Special Collections and Archives Research Center

Heartwood

mount st helen's in springtime

In the Blast Zone

inside of an unfurling leaf

Inner Nature Podcast Series

wildfire on the horizon

Lookout: Envisioning Futures with Wildfire

fire flames and debris across the sky

Lookout: Writing + Art About Wildfire

close up under microscope of micro ecologies

Micro-Ecologies

cattails on a riverbend

Militias, Mormons and Malheur

red winged black bird

Music to Save Earth's Songs

samuel h. boardman corridor

Native American Philosophies

blue and white abstract art

Nature and the Sacred

wooden sculpture on grass with a spherical opening on either side and a bench in the middle

Pandemic as Portal

$fracking on sacred land$

Permanent Peoples' Tribunal

Fresh Corpse, Old Growth Douglas Fir by gabriel liston

ROT: The Afterlife of Trees

drawing of two birds

Take Heart Book Launch

river in the woods of oregon

The Blue River Declaration

butterfly coming out of its shell in chrysalis phase

The Chrysalis Symposium

mount st. helens on a snowy day

The Mount St. Helens Foray

hand drawing of two hands touching, one old, one with a flowered glove

The Nature of Isolation

break free from fossil fuels sign

The Thin Green Line

metal texture art piece

Tom Jay Memorial Scholarship

red and smoky skies over a forest

Transformation without Apocalypse

trillium flower

Trillium Project

hands holding seeds

Vandana Shiva: Earth Democracy Lecture

clouds in the sky

Who Owns the Sky?

forest fire on the horizon

Words on Fire

creek in the woods

Working and Writing the Woods