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Artists find inspiration in nature and history of Everglades National Park

Artists have long taken to the outdoors to do their work. Now, an artist-in-residence program organized by the National Park Service puts a new emphasis on that important synergy. Jeffrey Brown visited the vast wetlands of Everglades National Park in Florida to see how artists are creating and sharing their work in nature. It's part of our arts and culture series, "CANVAS." ....

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An Insider's Guide to Everglades & Beyond


Everglades National Park
The Everglades ecosystem once stretched across a mosaic of wetlands and subtropical wilderness from Lake Okeechobee to Florida Bay. Unfortunately, by the mid-1900s nearly half of the slow-moving “river of grass” had been drained to make way for farms and urban development. The park was established in 1947, after decades of activism, to preserve a treasured 1.5 million acres of the ecosystem.
The Everglades is a complex mix of salt and freshwater wetlands, hardwood hammocks, and pine rocklands that support a wide variety of flora and fauna. The ecosystem functions as a giant water purifier, filtering and cleaning water that drains from farms and impervious surfaces before reaching Florida Bay and the Ten Thousand Islands. The Everglades also contributes to South Florida’s climate resilience, naturally absorbing the impacts of hurricanes and minimizing coastal erosion and flooding. ....

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