Gavin Van Horn

Creative Director and Executive Editor, Center for Humans and Nature

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Works
Image of Wildness: Relations of People and Place
Image of City Creatures: Animal Encounters in the Chicago Wilderness
Interviews
Gavin on the 606. How Do You Practice Kinship? A Brief Meditation

Eye-to-eye epiphanies are experiences of kinship with the more-than-human world. Gavin Van Horn says kinship is also something to practice. He shares a few thoughts about how.
Northern Rocky Mountains wolf Watching the Fierce Green Fire Die: Animal Gazes That Shaped Conservation Movements

There are two famous moments that helped shape environmental politics. Gavin Van Horn, of the Center for Humans and Nature, tells us what happened when Aldo Leopold met the eyes of a dying timber wolf and when Paul Watson looked into the eye of a dying sperm whale.
"Birds Watching." Printed reflective film mounted on aluminum on steel frame. 100 Bird Eyes Are Watching You

In Chicago, writer Gavin Van Horn and environmental artist Jenny Kendler visit her new art installation, which confronts viewers with the gaze of 100 giant bird eyes. It's meant to provoke curiosity, wonder, and awareness of how many non-human eyes are always watching us.
eyes Sharing Eye-To-Eye Epiphanies With The Animal World

Squirrels and pigeons share our sidewalks and park benches. Crows pick through our trash, rabbits munch on our lawns. They watch us; we ignore them. What would change if we actually met their eyes? 
Shows
eyes Eye-To-Eye Animal Encounters
Websites
humansandnature.org