Public Lichen Walks
The Lichen Museum is a conceptual art project that explores lichens’ role as an anti-capitalist companion and climate change survivor. The project has taken form as public walks (2014 - 2025 and ongoing), hand-made silkscreen posters, short videos, an institution in residence (Sector 2337 Chicago), and a book published in 2023 by University of Minnesota Press, The Lichen Museum.
Thank you to everyone who has contributed to this project, including lichenologist Shelly Benson who helped lead two lichen walks, Caroline Picard and Giovanni Aloi, who invited me to write the book, and many others…
a few of the Walks:
Mendocino Art Center, 2025
CHANT lichen symposium, University of Minnesota, 2025
History of Consciousness UCSC, 2024
Institute for the Arts and Sciences, Santa Cruz (Abolitionist Lichens), 2023
College of the Atlantic, 2023
Santa Cruz Natural History Museum, 2023
Northwestern University (Death Studies), 2023
Making Worlds Books, Philadelphia (Daniel Tucker, curator), 2023
Point Reyes Books, Bear Valley Nature Center, 2023
Abandoned Practices, Chicago, IL 2023
Santa Cruz Water Treatment Center, 2022
Ecosocialist Working Group of the Santa Cruz DSA, 2019
Sector 2337, Logan Square Chicago, 2015
Headlands Center for the Arts, 2014