Stacy Levy

Stacy Levy’s projects show the presence of urban nature clarifying the patterns of natural processes at work on the site.  She works with urban streams, rivers, tides  & rainwater. Her work registers the changes in nature over the course of a day, a season or a several years.   Stacy likes to collaborate directly with natural forces, like tides, She creates works that allows nature to show its very own patterns to the viewer.

She concentrates on making places for people to experience urban nature and to witness the fluctuations of the natural world, to bring a sense of wonder and connectedness.   Her projects include a temporary tide work on the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia and historic stream mapping on the sidewalks of Brooklyn and New  York. Many of her projects solve simple site issues like storm-water runoff.  Her rain-based works include Rain Ravine at the Frick Environmental Center In Pittsburgh and the Rain Yard  at the Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education in Philadelphia

Stacy graduated from Yale University with a BA in Art and a minor in forestry.  She earned her MFA from Tyler School of Art, Temple University. She is a recipient of the Pew Fellowship in the Arts.

Stacy grew up within the Wissahickon Watershed in Philadelphia, at the edge of Fairmount Park and played in storm water runoff when she was little, which informed her work. She now lives in Central Pennsylvania in the Penn’s Creek Watershed.

Visit Stacy’s website HERE.