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Mary Edna Fraser’s large-scale oils on canvas are painted on location as a form of advocacy for threatened landscapes and help us understand local issues. Through art, she will give insight into several local environmental issues she has helped bring awareness to as well as helped oppose. Mary Edna will discuss how she also partners with conservation organizations like the Coastal Conservation League on certain issues like protecting Lewis Ocean Bay Heritage Preserve, where she met Trapper Fowler.
For this Brookgreen U, Mary Edna will be partnering with Trapper Fowler, the North Coast Project Manager for the Coastal Conservation League. Trapper will conclude the session speaking on why the local community should be engaged, what engagement looks like, and how to get involved in local environmental advocacy.
About the Speakers:
Mary Edna Fraser, who is an Environmental Activist Artist, has spent half a century as an artist, often working with aerial perspectives from her family’s 1946 Ercoupe prop plane. The Charleston resident created batiks on silk for two books with renowned Duke University Professor Emeritus Orrin Pilkey: Global Climate Change: A Primer, Duke University Press and
A native of Horry County South Carolina, Trapper Fowler is a Certified Marine Biologist and the North Coast Project Manager for the Coastal Conservation League. Trapper strives to promote smart development, environmental justice to underserved communities, and conserve South Carolina’s most valuable natural resources.