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Rita Leduc

Lecturer, Creative Expression and the Environment at Rutgers University, Artist at Independent
Carmel, New York, United States
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RITA LEDUC is an interdisciplinary artist and hallway-dweller whose creative relationship with ecosystems informs relational leadership on human and societal scales. Leduc has taught, shown, and communicated her practice widely. She is founder and director of GROUNDWORK, an interdisciplinary creative platform, and teaches in Rutgers University's program, "Creative Expression and the Environment."

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Rita Leduc is a synesthetic sensor and hallway-dweller whose creative practice stretches across personal, interpersonal, and societal sectors. Her innermost starting point is a co-creative practice with various ecosystems. There, she uses visual means to acquaint with multi-sensory phenomenologies. Insights garnered inform interpersonal work: interdisciplinary collaborations, teaching, workshops, talks, exhibitions. As these relationships develop, so too does her broader work of aspirational leadership and “thrutopian” change. 

Recent projects include two Oika collaborations: Extending Ecology with an ecologist and Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest (HBEF), and Cause and Affection with an ecologist and Nantucket Harbor. Leduc’s current visual research involves decomposition, liminality, and “sparkle” with HBEF, MacLeish Field Station, and The Preserve at Vassar. Additionally, since founding it in 2013, Leduc has directed GROUNDWORK, an interdisciplinary, process-oriented research platform (most recently, GW: Interdisciplinary Cultivation Unit at Rutgers University). She is a member of The PLACE Collective and teaches in Rutgers University’s program, Creative Expression and the Environment.

Select past exhibitions and offerings have been at the Museum of the White Mountains (NH), Syracuse University (NY), The Nature of Cities Festival (Berlin), Grizedale Forest (UK), The Cognitive Science Show, Art.Earth’s “Sentient Performativities: Thinking Alongside the Human” (Dartington Hall, UK), Glasshouse Projects (NY), Mount Saint Mary College (NY), Maria Mitchell Association (MA), Governors Island (NY), and Ortega y Gasset Projects (NY). Support has been from NYFA, the Jerome Foundation, Atlas Obscura, Oika, Broto, and Rutgers, among others. Publications include Signal House Edition, Artis Natura, unpsychology magazine (“An Anthology of Warm Data”), and Dartington Trust’s “Arts + Ecology” podcast.

Leduc received her MFA from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University, Post-Baccalaureate Certificate from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and BA from the University of Pennsylvania.

Interests

outdoors, phenomenology, synesthesia, creativity, art, anthropology, neuroscience, philosophy, psychology, spirituality...