About this Event
Termite TV is excited to feature the work of Dunu Artists in Residence, Joy Waldinger and Lee Bird at the Termite TV studio at Cherry Street Pier from November 6 - December 28th.
Join us on First Friday November 6th from 5-8pm for the opening of their featured work to meet the artists. Visit termite.org for opportunities to stop by and meet the artists throughout the month.
Throughout the summer of 2026, Joy and Lee produced work on site and in collaboration with the Open Kitchen Sculpture Garden (@theopenkitchensculpturegarden).
Joy created a collaborative mural onsite and hosted a reading of Trash Crab, a lovely children's story of creativity in service of environmental sustainability.
Lee hosted workshops to create textile art, using dyes and botanical printing techniques. Their work centers healing practices and regenerative possibilities.
In the studio, they will feature documentation from their residency alongside original work that showcases their unique practices and approaches to building work inspired and rooted in the natural environment.
(@dunu_ontheroad)
About the Artists:
J. Eliza Wall (Joy Elisabeth Waldinger) is a storyteller (artist/writer/filmmaker) and educator from Philadelphia. She writes, produces, directs, films, and edits her short films. Her work explores various topics—the human condition, family dynamics, relationships, nostalgia, connection to nature, and mental and physical health—in an attempt to restore connections in a fractured world. She believes that art is a powerful tool that can generate change and healing on a local and global level. Her short films have won awards in national and international film festivals and she has been published in a variety of literary magazines. In 2020 she published her children’s book Like The Sun Holds The Moon: A Children’s Book and her book, Like The Sun Holds The Moon: A Novel was published during the lunar eclipse of May 2022 by Little Creek Press. Her newest children’s book (TRASH CRAB) was published by Little Creek Press on Earth Day 2023. (@j.elizawall)
Lee Bird is a queer trans artist, writer and wonderer in Philadelphia. His work explores themes of joy, love, grief, compassion, pleasure, and community care as resistance to dominant culture that devalues all life. Evoking wonder, curiosity and hope, Lee makes art that centers reclaimed materials, as well as homemade and Indigenous-made natural pigments. A self-taught illustrator and painter, he has more than a decade of experience creating with fibers and textiles, with a focus on botanical dyeing and natural printing techniques with homegrown plants, and his practice today combines all of these passions. Lee has also owned his own boutique business making sustainable, naturally dyed and printed ribbons, and has been a doll maker and a fashion designer. Lee has a professional background in national nonprofit animal and environmental advocacy, as well as degrees in poetry writing and literature, with a focus on ecocritical theory and environmental philosophy. (@littleboybluebirdlee)
Lee will host additional open studio hours on Saturdays in November and December from 1:00p - 3:00pm in Termite TV Studio at Cherry St Pier.
OPEN STUDIO with LEE BIRD | SATURDAYS | 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
NOVEMBER 7th, 14th, 21st
DECEMBER 5th, 12th, 19th
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