Since 2007, Jennifer and Jeanette's collaborations have focused on the connections between art, science, and developing a sense of place at the Calvin Ecosystem Preserve & Native Gardens on the campus of Calvin University in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Together they created and taught Picturing Place, a summer camp program for middle school students, to learn to view the natural world through the lenses of both science and art. Through the arts of photography, journaling, sketching, botanical preservation, and printing, students learned to observe the beauty of native plants with intelligence and appreciation. Throughout the week, they participated in team building exercises and group projects, and at the end of the week, the students presented their individually crafted projects about a native plant in an art show. 

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Jennifer and Jeanette also collaborated on creating and teaching a unit for ART 153 - Visual Culture for university students at Calvin University.  Students explored the scientific documentation of native plants and how looking shapes understanding in visual images.  This unit was taught in both the fall and spring semesters.

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Contingent Existence is their first collaboration together as artists. Discovering their shared love of historic European still life images, they combined their skills of photography and floral design to highlight the role humans play in the introduction of nonnative and invasive species.

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