
Laura Chipley
ABOG Fellow for Socially Engaged Art
Laura Chipley is an interdisciplinary artist based in Queens, New York. Her past projects include “Deep Black Sea” – an experimental documentary series that chronicles the aftermath of oil spills around the world, and “The Newtown Creek Armada” – an interactive boat pond created in a New York Superfund site. She is an Assistant Professor of Media and Communications at the State University of New York at Old Westbury.
Her ABOG Fellowship will support The Appalachian Mountaintop Patrol (AMP), a collaborative, environmental watchdog multimedia education initiative that will train people in Boone County, West Virginia to document environmental contamination resulting from coal and natural gas extraction in the Appalachian Mountains. AMP will train six Boone County residents in field video production, social media and web-based video skills, aerial photography and environmental sampling techniques, with the resulting documentation distributed via online videos, public projections, and documentary film screenings.
- Tailing pond runoff, Boone County, WV 2013. Video Still: Laura Chipley
- Coal slurry impoundment, Boone County, WV 2013. Video Still: Laura Chipley
- Tailing pond, Boone County, WV 2013. Video Still: Laura Chipley
- Petroecuador workers at oil contamination remediation site, Orellana Province, Ecuador 2011. Photo: Laura Chipley
- Petroecuador workers help clean underwater video casing, Orellana Province, Ecuador 2011. Photo: Laura Chipley
- Petroleum waste pit, Orellana Province, Ecuador, 2011. Video Still: Laura Chipley
- The Newtown Creek Armada, by Laura Chipley, Nathan Kensinger and Sarah Nelson Wright, The Newtown Creek Nature Walk, Brooklyn, 2012. Photo: Nathan Kensinger
- The Newtown Creek Armada, by Laura Chipley, Nathan Kensinger and Sarah Nelson Wright, The Newtown Creek Nature Walk, Brooklyn, 2012. Photo: Carolina Ferreras
- Orange Beach, Alabama, 2010. Video still: Laura Chipley