Our Team
Kalyn Mae Finnell
Project ManagerKalyn Mae Finnell is the Project Manager for Bellow Forth. She is a community planner, high desert grower, natural dyer and herbalist based in Torreon, New Mexico. She has a background in community organizing and participatory planning methods, public school facility planning, construction project management, and non-profit budget maintenance.
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kaitiln bryson
Co-Director and Creative Directorkaitlin bryson relates to and engages with the world through transdisciplinary ecological art, research, and pedagogy. Oriented towards environmental and social justice and multi-species/multi-futures thriving she emphasizes the processes, actions, queerness, and criticalities of the microscopic, the saprotrophic, the generous multi-species who consume what is gone and make sustenance for what’s to come.
Co-Director + Indigenous DesignerBeata is from Santa Clara Pueblo and El Rito, NM. She is a mother, poet,advocate, seed keeper, and is certified in Infant Massage, as a Developmental Specialist, an Educator, A Lactation Counselor, a full-spectrum Birthworker, and in Indigenous Sustainable Design (permaculture). She has been working to address impacts and advocate for environmental and reproductive health and justice for over a decade. She currently works as the organizational director of Breath of My Heart Birthplace.
Roxanne Márquez
Project AssistantRoxanne Márquez is an interdisciplinary Chicana artist and scientist based in Albuquerque, NM. They are focused on creating art that communicates our (meta)physical entanglements with ecological processes and with other organisms. The majority of their work is process-based and research-based, involving decomposable materials, natural dyes, textiles, drawing, creative writing, scientific research, and often extends into collaboration with soil, fungi, bacteria, plants, humans, and other animals. They draw on their experiences within ecological research to create art that incorporates themes of decomposition and healing through the restorative visceral experiences of the body and the land.
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Nancy Dewhurst
Community CoordinatorNancy Dewhurst is an interdisciplinary artist based in Albuquerque, NM. Her experiences with neurodivergence drive her poetic explorations of perception, language, relationality, and power. Guided by the needs of each artwork, Dewhurst employs a wide range of materials and methodologies. Frequently this includes ceramics, metal, moving image, digital fabrication, interactivity, installation, and performance.
Art Team LeadRachel Bordeleau is an interdisciplinary artist and educator whose work centers on plant-human relationships and place-based entanglements. Her current practice is rooted in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where she works in collaboration with the native and invasive flora, archives, and found and leftover materials to create artworks about place. Her practice is research-based and grows from lived experience, offering stories about life and deathcycles, indeterminancy, and change. She is a member of the SeedBroadcast artist collective and holds an MFA in Art & Ecology from the University of New Mexico.
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Abigail Granath
Science LeadAbi is a PhD candidate in the Biology Department at UNM. Abi works in Dr. Jennifer Rudgers’ lab where she investigates how symbiotic relationships between plants and fungi contribute to the bioremediation of heavy metals in areas affected by the legacy of uranium mining. She is a huge nerd when it comes to ecology, specifically plant and fungal ecology, and is inspired everyday by the symbiotic relationships between organisms that create networks of resource sharing and community support. She thinks plant and fungal mutualistic relationships are great examples of how strong communities can help individuals thrive in stressful environments.
Science AssistantLuc Biscan-White (Siksikáí'tsitapi / Blackfoot, Irish-European, Appalachian) is a mutlidisipinary artist, plant ecologist, and researcher. Their practice is expressed through installation, sculpture, performance, writing, and anolog photography collaboratively made their material collaborations Metal, Clay, SCOBY, Fungi, and Wood. Their practice explores the material reality, context, and socio-politics of material kin.
Past team members
dylan mclaughlin
Previous Art and Sound Team Member
Dylan McLaughlin is a multidisciplinary artist looking critically to ecologies of extraction and threatened ecosystems. He weaves Diné mythology, ecological data, and environmental histories while holding space for complexity. What transpires is the sonification of relationships to land through experimental music composition and improvised performance.
Communities For Clean Water
Protecting community waters impacted by the Los Alamos National Laboratory in Northern New Mexico.
Katie v. beidler
Previous Scientific Lead and Science Director
Dr. Beidler is an ecosystem ecologist who explores the hidden world of roots and their fungal partners to better understand how energy (carbon) and nutrients cycle through forests. Mycorrhizal fungi belong to a large and diverse belowground network, forming interactions with plants and other microbes.
our partners
Neighbors Helping Neighbors
grassroots mutual aid organization. Las Vegas, New Mexico
Warrior Heart Ranch and the Center for Creative Intent
Las Vegas, New Mexico
Flowering Tree Permaculture Institute
Flowering Tree in Santa Clara Pueblo and is working with the concepts of permaculture- a design method using whole systems thinking derived from studying natural ecosystems.
with generous funding provided by
In 2026, Bellow Forth was selected for a Monument Lab Re:Generation Grant
Monument Lab Re:Generation supports a 2026 cohort of ten teams working to create new or to expand existing public art, public history, or public humanities projects. Each selected Re:Generation team receives a total of $100,000 in unrestricted funding towards their commemorative campaign or project rooted in the living history of a neighborhood, city, or region.
In 2022, Bellow Forth was funded with generous support from Anonymous Was a Woman in partnership with The New York Foundation for the Arts.
The AWAW EAG program supports environmental art projects that inspire thought, action, and ethical engagement.