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"Emily Caldwell - Naturally"

KEDM Public Radio | By Kelby Ouchley

Published August 17, 2015 at 9:00 AM EDT

There is an art exhibit at the Masur Museum in Monroe that you should not miss. It is titled "Emily Caldwell - Naturally." I can't tell you what Ms. Caldwell was thinking when she created this art. I can, however, point to its origins. She insisted on experiencing her subjects first-hand in situ. As an informal guide I led her to wild places and stood aside. The art in this show is a result of her mental foraging on these excursions.

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Kelby Ouchley

Kelby was a biologist and manager of National Wildlife Refuges for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for more than 30 years. He has worked with alligators in gulf coast marshes and Canada geese on Hudson Bay tundra. His most recent project was working with his brother Keith of the Louisiana Nature Conservancy on the largest floodplain restoration project in the Mississippi River Basin at the Mollicy Unit of the Upper Ouachita National Wildlife Refuge, reconnecting twenty-five square miles of former floodplain forest back to the Ouachita River.

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