Ephemeral Art:
The Practice of Letting Go/Shapeshifting

Join Lydia Cheshewalla in the green space surrounding Comfort Station for an afternoon creating temporary art using naturally sourced and gathered material. In this drop-in, all ages event, folk will learn about ethical and sustainable gathering/harvesting; collaborating with more-than-human kin, reflect on transformational processes, and practice self-guided, self-paced mindfulness in a creative and communal setting.

No materials necessary but folks are welcome to bring anything they may like to utilize to create and document ephemeral works of art.

Bonding over their Great Plains roots, rural Midwestern sensibilities, prairie love, and artistic proclivities, Lydia Cheshewalla & Jessica Price became collaborative co-conspirators in 2016.

Lydia Cheshewalla is an enrolled member of the Osage Nation with Cherokee, Modoc, Dakota, and Xicanx descendancy. She is a visual artist who creates ephemeral, site-specific land art and installation accompanied by poetic factualism and grounded in Indigenous kinship pedagogy.
@goodwithcoffee
lydia-cheshewalla.com

Jessica Price is an accomplished musician/songwriter, currently fronting Chicago-based band Doom Flower, as well as a videographer with work spanning documentary, short film, archival, music video, and education in both digital and film. She works most frequently with a Digital Harinezumi camera, which underscores her signature style of photography.
@doomflowerband
doomflower.com