Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison are both social and environmental artists that created The Harrison Studio. The two, often called "the Harrisons", have spent over forty years working in collaboration with biologists, ecologists, architects, urban planners and other artists in order to further biodiversity and community development. The Harrisons are both Professors Emeriti at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and the University of California, San Diego. They have both had exhibits featured across the US and in 2013 they became the first recipients of the Corlis Benefideo Award for Imaginative Cartography.