April 24 at 5 at Bucky’s dome (Campus lake trail), see QR code in poster for location
April 27 at noon at Washington Street Garden, 209 N Washington St.
The Lower Mississippi Watershed Open School welcomes artist and herbalist Stephanie Lindquist to Carbondale for two workshops in plant learning, sensing and preparing.
Originally from LA, Lindquist studied for her BA at Columbia University and received an MFA at the University of Minnesota. Her work has been shown at Franconia Sculpture Park, Smack Mellon, The New York Public Library, The New Museum, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, El Museo del Barrio among others. Inspired by historical and botanical research of indigenous food plants from Africa and beyond, Stephanie examines ideas around sustainability, natural farming and dieting proposed by farmer-philosopher Masanobu Fukuoka, Kenyan agricultural scientist Mary Abukutsa-Onyango and Potawatomi scientist Robin Kimmerer.
Stephanie writes: “When we respect plants’ gifts and limits, we respect humans’ too. When experienced intentionally pleasure with plants can be a positive feedback loop that encourages us to make healthy sustainable decisions for ourselves and environments. It’s time for those of us who have forgotten our plant connections to reclaim them. Our bodies crave them and our world will be richer for it.”
Join us to pleasure the craving to be close with the green world.
All free. Children welcome. Open to all.
