John Doe
Aug 17
Northeast Greenway is a public art and memory project that focuses on traditions of gardening and land stewardship amidst environmental injustice: mapping a rich history while looking towards the future amidst climate change challenges. This project will gather stories of garden practices that will be archived in a pocket guide and a public mural. Plant preservation, cultural memory work, and artist-led workshops will be grounded in storytelling traditions while elevating the ecological knowledge residents employ to push back against environmental and climate threats.
The project kicks off with a gathering at Cane River Gardens on June 18th, 2026 (see below!). At the heart of the Northeast Greenway project is the use of storytelling as a means to push back against the effects of legacy contamination and displacement.
Click here if you would like to be part of the project.
Community Storytelling Fellow
We are pleased to welcome Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton to the Museum’s Northeast Greenway project and forthcoming Garden Guide, which explores how Northeast Houston gardeners are responding to environmental degradation and climate uncertainty. Deborah will help document histories of land stewardship in NE Houston, highlighting the knowledge gardeners hold about soil, plants, climate change, and community resilience in the face of environmental injustice.
Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton is a multi-modal storyteller whose work documents, examines, and celebrates the complexities of Black American life. She has authored Newsworthy (Bloomsday Literary, 2019), Black Chameleon (Henry Holt & Co., 2023), which won the Carr P. Collins award for Best Nonfiction through the Texas Institute of Letters, and Hush Hush Hurricane (Kokila Books, 2027). This three-time TEDx speaker has contributed to Glamour, Texas Monthly, and ESPN's Andscape and written theatrical works that have premiered at Chicago Opera Theater, the Kennedy Center, and National Sawdust. Her immersive art installation, The Call Me Mother Experience, amplifies the Black Maternal Health crisis.
Thursday, June 18th
6:00 - 9:00PM
at Cane River Gardens
4205 Lyons Ave.
BIOBLITZ \\ Observing
how community observations can contribute to greater ecological understanding
BIOCHAR // Restoring
workshop with Andrea Guerrero to learn how biochar supports soil regeneration and plant growth
PIT FIRE \\ Preserving
traditional ceramic firing demonstration with POTCLUB's Michelle Heinesen
STORYTELLING // Remembering
with Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton
Join us for the first gathering of the Northeast Greenway project, a year-long initiative that explore how communities care for land in the face of legacy pollution and environmental degradation. Featuring a Bioblitz using iNaturalist tools, a biochar workshop with Andrea Guerrero on soil regeneration and plant growth, a ceramic pit-firing demonstration with PotClub's Michelle Heinesen, and storytelling with Fellow Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton, the event invites participants to document biodiversity, share ecological knowledge, and help shape a community field guide highlighting the practices sustaining gardens and green spaces across Northeast Houston.
RSVP to the June 18th gathering.
This in-person event is open & free to the public and has in part been made possible by Houston Arts Alliance and ASTC's Seeding Action with iNaturalist program.
