Laura Chipley is an interdisciplinary artist based in Queens, New York. Her past projects include “Deep Black Sea” – an experimental documentary series that chronicles the aftermath of oil spills around the world, and “The Newtown Creek Armada” – an interactive boat pond created in a New York Superfund site. She is an Assistant Professor of Media and Communications at the State University of New York at Old Westbury. 

Her ABOG Fellowship will support The Appalachian Mountaintop Patrol (AMP), a collaborative, environmental watchdog multimedia education initiative that will train people in Boone County, West Virginia to document environmental contamination resulting from coal and natural gas extraction in the Appalachian Mountains. AMP will train six Boone County residents in field video production, social media and web-based video skills, aerial photography and environmental sampling techniques, with the resulting documentation distributed via online videos, public projections, and documentary film screenings.

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