The Pennsylvania Gazette
By Trey Popp
June 18, 2026

“Birds have been near the center of Yvonne Love GFA’94’s family life for about as long as she can remember. If her father and stepmother weren’t peering through binoculars, they were likely paging through bird guides in preparation. And “from the time I was little, I was in the field with them,” Love says. “We’d get up at three o’clock in the morning so we could be someplace at dawn.”

Whether they were counting yellow-throated vireos near their home in Oreland, Pennsylvania, or traveling to India in search of more exotic species, Love’s parents kept detailed checklists memorializing their findings. These data-rich documents, whose margins bloom with ballpoint annotations in Naomi’s cursive and Bill’s script, serve as the base layers of an exhibition that could hardly ask for a more fitting venue: the house in Mill Grove, Pennsylvania, where John James Audubon was first inspired to draw and paint birds in the early 1800s.”

Thursday, May 21 • 5:30–7:30 PM

Philadelphia Ethical Society
1906 Rittenhouse Square
Philadelphia, PA 19103

Join us for the Clean Air Council’s first environmentally themed art exhibition. Proceeds support their work to ensure a healthy environment.

Reflections on Our Endangered Environment features a selection of local artists who take an aesthetic approach to addressing environmental challenges. The evening will include a silent auction, a short program, appetizers, and complimentary beer and wine.

The exhibition is curated by Cynthia Haveson Veloric, PhD, art historian and adjunct professor at Drexel University. Works in a range of media and scale will be available for purchase, with a portion of proceeds benefiting the Council.

Tickets are $75 and can be purchased by clicking the button below.

Curated by Heather Moqtaderi, National Audubon Society

John James Audubon Center at Mill Grove
April 17 – August 16, 2026

Reception: April 19, 1–3 pm

This upcoming exhibition at the historic house of John James Audubon reflects on over fifty years of my parents’ daily birding field notes—an extraordinary record of their lifelong observation of the natural world. Created in collaboration with artist Deirdre Murphy, the project transforms decades of careful note-taking into visual reflections on seeing, recording, and understanding our shared environment.

Saturday, May 23, 10:00 am – 12:00 pm

Join Deirdre Murphy and I for an artist talk and nature walk and journaling at the Audubon Discovery Center. The workshop invites participants, guided by naturalist insight and artistic prompts, to slow down, notice, and record what they see, hear, and feel through drawing, writing, or both. The session explores the productive juxtaposition of scientific observation and personal reflection to deepen participants’ relationship to place.

This event coincides with our exhibitions on view at the John James Audubon Center at Mill Grove from April 18 – August 16, 2026. 

https://www.discoveryphila.org/