Cultural Burning
Dr. Don Hankins is an artist, but not the typical kind. Instead of using traditional brushes or artboards, the California State University, Chico, professor uses fire to steward the natural landscape of forests in Big Chico Creek Ecological Preserve and other forests in the world. His art carries a special name: cultural burning.
May 29, 2020
Visit ProjectFor the Spring 2020 JOVRNALISM course, students focused on wildfires in California as the semester-long theme. While researching the topic, the class learned about Cultural Burning, an indigenous approach to land management and fire prevention centuries old.
With the help of California State University, Chico, professor Dr. Don Hankins, the student traveled to northern California to produced this immersive project as COVID began to take hold.
See the project here: https://culturalburning.jovrnalism.io/