April 17, Thursday
Soil Offerings
10:45am – 11:00am: Marta Castilho da Silva (Postdoctoral External Fellow, Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme Society of Fellows) shares her work with the Dourados Indigenous village in Brazil on the role of soils and medicinal gardens in a culture of care, and well-living.
11:00am – 11:30am: Zoom talk by Chiara Contardi (co-owner of Ecopassaparola) who has worked with effective microorganisms for over 15 years and will discuss how they have been used in Europe. Join this part online at: https://zoom.us/j/92616114421 Id: 926 1611 4421
Location: Hayes Hall, room 225
11:30am – 12:15pm: Soil ceremony and medicine wheel offering of nutrients and beneficial microorganisms to the soils. We will share good tidings, effective microorganisms, and nutritious worm tea made from compost in the “Worm Wagon” with the new seedlings that will be planted in the Living Art and Ecology Lab gardens.
Hosts: Susan Melsop and her students in the Collaborative Design Studio course, Dominique Flaksberg, Marta Castilho da Silva, Chiara Contardi, Emma Kline, and the worms from Amy Youngs’ colony.
Location: Outdoors in the courtyard between Hopkins Hall and Hayes Hall.
April 21, Monday
Department of Art Open House
4:30pm – 6:30pm: Costumes and parade float display in the Department of Art Open House. Check out the upcycled parade items made by the Lichen Likers and the Eco Art course students. Also, join the Lichen Likers in the lobby for hands-on costume-making to prepare for the next day’s performance and parade.
Hosts: Lichen Likers of the Living Art & Ecology Lab, along with the students in Amy Youngs’ Eco Art class.
Location: Lobby and first floor corridors of Hopkins Hall, 128 N. Oval Mall
April 22, Tuesday
Lost Waters Landscape Celebration
1:00pm – 3:00pm: Virtual reality visualization of what the landscape around Mirror Lake might have looked like over 100 years ago. Also experience our Augmented Reality Story Trail on your cellphone or on an iPads we can loan you.
Locations: Virtual Reality at Mirror Lake near Pomerene Hall – look for the tent on the patio. Augmented Reality on the South Oval – look for the tent near Hale Hall.
The Collaborative Design Studio activities
12:30 – 3:30: Join us for 5 fun & creative activities on the South Oval
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- Paint a public mural depicting more-than-human perspectives. Join us in the co-creation of a participatory mural.
- Create an eco-postcard using repurposed materials and send a love letter of deep appreciation to water as a source of life!
- Discover lichen and fresh air in this Scavenger Hunt. Lichen leads the way in this hunt for unique lichen located on the South Oval, find them all and win a Lichen calendar! Participants will learn about our local ecosystem through physical materials. Map and images are provided to assist in the lichen hunt.
- Collect a pinwheel and learn more about the “Lost Waters” under your feet!
- Tie a knot in a symbolic gesture to our symbiotic interdependence with mycorrhiza, making the invisible visible!
3:30pm – 4:30: Join the Lichen Pipeline, a participatory art performance celebrating lichens as important contributors to our terrestrial ecosystems. Come to the center of the South Oval to collaborate with the Lichen Likers as we braid, tie, and link together to embody a kind of sculptural support system that brings lichen and humans together as “biological infrastructure”.
At 4:30pm all participants are invited to line up and join the parade to continue extending the Lichen Pipeline further.
Hosts: Lichen Likers of the Living Art & Ecology Lab
Location: Middle of the South Oval. Look for our fabric braids and parade float with tree branches.
4:30pm – 5:30pm: Parade starts from the South Oval. We will walk single file along the blue line, which marks the underground stream of Neil Run. The Lost Waters group will lead us, followed by the Lichen groups, followed by the Soil Culture groups. Our procession will continue to follow the historic Neil Run waterway, beyond the Ohio Union, and into the neighborhoods to the East of High Street, to end at Iuka Ravine – where the water that once flowed there has left an enduring mark on the land.
Location: Starts from Ohio State University South Oval, behind the Faculty Club.
We acknowledge that the land that The Ohio State University occupies is the ancestral and contemporary territory of the Shawnee, Potawatomi, Delaware, Miami, Peoria, Seneca, Wyandotte, Ojibwe and many other Indigenous peoples. Specifically, the university resides on land ceded in the 1795 Treaty of Greeneville and the forced removal of tribes through the Indian Removal Act of 1830. As a land grant institution, we want to honor the resiliency of these tribal nations and recognize the historical contexts that has and continues to affect the Indigenous peoples of this land. https://art.osu.edu/about/land-acknowledgement-statement