The Nature Consortium is a grassroots, community-based organization whose mission is to teach environmental lessons through the creative arts and hands-on conservation projects. We produce a Youth Art Program, an Urban Forest Restoration Project and the Arts~in~Nature Festival. If you are interested in joining our team as Restoration Project Assistant please contact us.

The Nature Consortium Staff

Vic Brown – Director of Arts Education
Enjoys inspiring youth beyond their conceived potential, and assisting artists in sustaining a creative life.   
Enjoys:  writing, photography, painting, hiking, cooking, music.  Other orgs:  Currently serves on The Fremont Abbey Board and Bands Without Borders, and has worked for The Grand Teton National Park and Boys and Girls Clubs of King County. 

Lisa Corbin – Director of Development
I have Kansas roots, (no Dorothy jokes please!) and have worked in the non-profit sector for seventeen years. I first worked as a health educator, and then moved into fundraising, beginning with bake sales and auctions and progressing into annual fund drives, development plans, and major gifts.  I have two growing boys who keep me on my toes, and in my spare time (?!) I like to bake and take long walks, stopping at garage sales of course.  I am truly blessed to be working with the staff and the Board of Directors here at the Nature Consortium!

Elizabeth Dahl - Site Coordinator
Elizabeth is excited to be working in the non-profit sector again. In high-school, she was the president of a youth-run non-profit foundation.  She performs live music and enjoys traveling, photography, pottery, writing and playing music, language, camping and dabbling in any other creative art.

Elizabeth McDonald - Americorps
Elizabeth is the newest addition at the Nature Consortium. She’s an Americorps volunteer working with buphalo as the Restoration Project Assistant Director. Elizabeth originally hails from Maryland. She attended the University of Rochester in New York, graduating with a B.A. in Political Science and Brain and Cognitive Science. Experiences throughout her childhood and college years led her to have an interest in the environment. After driving cross-country this past summer and relocating to Seattle, she found out about the Nature Consortium and decided to jump right into doing hands-on environmental work.

Mark Tomkiewicz– Restoration Project Director
Mark Tomkiewicz, aka buphalo, earned a degree in Environmental Science from UMASS, Amherst. He has taught math, science, art, and English in traditional and alternative settings across the U.S. and abroad. As Assist. Director of Education at the Cuyahoga Valley Environmental Education Center in Peninsula Ohio, he developed curriculum focused on incorporating appropriate technology into environmental education. buphalo is a mixed media artist and started working for the NC as a teaching artist in Jan. '06. His art varies from sound and kinetic sculpture to large scale collaborative public art. Tying his environmental background into his art, his projects tend to have organic shapes or carry themes focused on the human relationship with the natural world.  www.fire-pod.com