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Eco Expressions

Founder/Director: Jan Wellik, EdD

Dr. Jan Wellik is a writer and environmental educator with over 20 years of experience. She earned a bachelor's and master's in English and a Doctorate in Education (EdD). She is the author of the Nature Writing Field Guide for Educators and Embodied Nature: Poetry Collection.

She serves as a Lecturer in Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin - La Crosse since 2009 and leads artistic nature writing & art workshops and retreats for youth and adults across the U.S.

Eco Expressions, LLC is a nature art journaling program for youth and adults based in La Crosse, Wisconsin since 2010 and originally founded in 2004 in San Diego, California.

“Tenderness is

born out of a connection to place.

Writing becomes an act of
compassion toward life,

the life we so often refuse to see

because if we look too closely

or feel too deeply, there may be no end to our suffering.

But words empower us, move us beyond suffering,
and set us free.”
~ Terry Tempest Williams

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