about: Mission

The Living Land Learn curriculum aims to provide opportunities to engage and connect with the natural and man-made environment, and acknowledges the potential of each individual to restore and benefit from  nature’s integrity and balance.


Connect with the land


Build a reciprocal relationship with nature, explore the learner within yourself.

Connect with your community


Acknowledge the wisdom of the past, engage in the present, regenerate the future.

Connect with yourself


Harmonize your pace with nature, be present, experience gratitude and beauty, share in kindness and empathy.


“By honoring the knowledge in the land, and caring for its keepers, we start to become indigenous to place“     


Robin Wall Kimmerer,

‘Braiding Sweetgrass’


ABOUT: Muriel Stallworth

Muriel Stallworth is an art teacher and sustainability coordinator at the International School of Brooklyn, where she leads Growing Systems: Nature, Art and Ecology at ISB, an interdisciplinary program that fosters a systemic understanding of the natural world, emphasizing gratitude and reciprocity. As an artist and climate education consultant in the Hudson Valley, she designs experiential programs that weave together visual arts and ecological awareness, grounding students and educators alike in nature-based creativity. Inspired by the climate solutions movement, Muriel’s “possibilist“ approach to the climate crisis centers on the power of community, exploration, and imagination.