Heroes and Hosts

Heroes and Hosts is a collaborative art installation that celebrates and elevates Georgia’s vulnerable native plants through theatrical storytelling and immersive visual art. This website serves as a living archive of the project—documenting the research, creative process, and artworks of artists Lisa D. Watson and Dana Richardson,  Through paintings, sculpture, and storytelling, Heroes and Hosts connects human life to the natural world, reminding us that we are part of these ecosystems and encouraging us to learn, reflect, care, and take action.

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** We honor the land we walk, study, and create upon.

This land is home to the Guale, Muscogee (Creek), and other Indigenous peoples who stewarded the tidal ecosystems with deep relational knowledge. 

We also acknowledge the descendants of enslaved West and Central Africans, whose forced labor transformed this landscape—building its fields, navigating its creeks, and embedding their spirit and culture into the soil, and the Gullah-Geechee people, whose communities still dwell along the coast.

We honor the people, plants, and animals who live here. May our work here—whether artistic, scientific, or educational—proceed with humility, gratitude, and awareness of what has been gifted, and what has been taken.