links and books

lauren jacobs' Recommended Link List

General

www.janiam.com
www.erica_jacobs.typepad.com
www.cranbrookart.edu/fibers
www.openmikes.org/calendar/VA
www.openmikes.org/calendar/MI
www.iprintfromhome.com
 

Into the Wild

www.ancestralknowledge.org/
www.mapsgroup.org
www.earth-connection.com
www.herbcraft.org
nativeways.tripod.com
www.earthskillsrendezvous.org
www.uheac.org
www.wildmichigan.org
www.natureskills.com
www.botanical.com
www.wildplantdatabase.net
www.trackerschool.com

Artists

www.kyoungaecho.com
www.janelackey.com
www.michaelrakowitz.com
www.jannrosen-queralt.com
www.cyaneyed.org
www.gwynethmorford.com
www.gro-wings.com
www.marabaker.com
www.courtneymandryk.com
www.chrissyday.com
www.rickettsindigo.com



lauren jacobs’ Recommended Reading list

general
*Lincoln Barnett’s The Universe and Dr Einstein
*Tom Brown Jr.’s Grandfather
*Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild
*Broder’s The Sacred Hoop
*Joseph Campbell’s The Power of Myth
*James Gleick’s Chaos
*Freud, Durkheim, CG Jung

fiction
*Neil Stevenson’s Snowcrash
*Orson Scott Card’s The Ender's Game series
Susan Cooper’s The Dark is Rising series
J.K Rowling’s Harry Potter series
Patricia A. Mckillip’s Something Rich And Strange
Charles De Lint’s The Wild Wood
Michael Cunningham’s Specimen Days
Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories
Alan Lightman’s Einstein’s Dreams

art and art theory
*Sartwell’s Six Names of Beauty
Andy Goldsworthy (installation and site specific sculptor)
James Turrell (installation and site specific sculptor)
Kit William’s The Bee Book
Kit William’s Masquerade
Ernst Haekel’s Art Forms in Nature
Michael Rakowitz’s Circumnavigations (sculpture as social reform)
Piper Shephard’s Portfolio (fiber art)
Julie Taymor (artistic director, puppeteer and costume maker)
Shirin Neshat (video/performance artist)
*Einstein, Slam Poetry and James Joyce (different systems of organizing thought and image)
*Spike Bucklow (art historian/scientist at Cambridge University England)
*Nicholas Friend (head of art history Cambridge University England)

trees and wilderness guides
Tom Pakenham’s Meetings with Remarkable Trees
Tom Pakenham’s Remarkable Trees of the World
Tom Pakenham’s The Remarkable Baobob
*Alexander Porteous’ Forrest Folklore
*C.J.S. Thompson’s the Mystic Mandrake
*Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird's The Secret Life of Plants
*Darwin’s Power of movement in plants
Hugues Vaucher’s Tree Bark: A Color Guide
*Tom Brown Jr.’s field guides
Peterson’s field guides (Edible Plants)