Public Art Project : Marfa Dialogues : St Louis : July-Aug 2014

Milkweed Dispersal Balloons, my first project as artist-in-residence with NRDC, debuted at Marfa Dialogues/St.Louis, with us giving out hundreds of milkweed seed-filled biodegradable balloons to participants both at the Tower Grove Farmer's Market and at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation. People were engaged and excited to learn about how they can help monarchs, who are in severe decline due to pesticide use, habitat loss and climate change. At the Pulitzer, I was pleased to see the balloons 'hanging out' next to a giant Richard Serra piece. It was quite a contrast.

Milkweed Dispersal Balloons was featured in many news sources, and I was interviewed by NPR as well as a KPLR, a local TV station (live!).

The project will come to Chicago at the DePaul Art Museum in April of 2015. Stay tuned by following on Facebook at . You can see images from our two performances in St. Louis, here.