ArtWise will exhibit Lacey Anderson's photography May 17-June 20, 2026. An opening will be on May 17 from 2:00-4:00.

Lacey Anderson is an educator, sociologist, and Garden Fellow at the GRO.UND Learning Gardens at the University of North Dakota. With more than fifteen years of teaching experience, her artistic practice is shaped by the concepts she explores in the classroom, including sustainability, social equity, advocacy, and care. She works across photography, embroidery, and assemblage to translate these ideas into visual form.

This body of work emerges from Anderson’s close engagement with garden ecosystems and community-based education. Her photographs document pollinators, plants, and food systems as they exist within everyday environments, drawing attention to the biodiversity that often goes unnoticed beneath our feet.

Through this work, Anderson invites viewers to slow down and look closely. By focusing on small, easily overlooked moments, Biodiversity in Bloom highlights the interconnected relationships between humans and the natural world, suggesting that care for the environment is inseparable from broader questions of justice, responsibility, and collective well-being.

Artist Bio: 

Lacey Anderson is an educator, sociologist, and photographer whose work draws attention to the natural world through intimate images of plants, animals, and pollinators encountered while gardening. Her work highlights biodiversity in everyday landscapes, revealing the beauty and complexity of the small worlds beneath our feet. Through close observation, Anderson’s photography invites care, curiosity, and deeper attention to native plants, pollinator habitats, and the living systems that sustain us.