private event at Scattergood Friends SchooL

MYCYOWA (2022) is a STEAM-themed traveling public art project, supported by a 2022 American Rescue Plan grant through the Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs.

My goal for MYCYOWA is to increase hope via awareness of mycoremediation, a process in which fungi break down and absorb pollutants on land and in fresh water: heavy metals, textile dyes, tanning chemicals, wastewater, petroleum, hydrocarbons, pesticides, and herbicides.

I’m thrilled to announce that on April 3, 2024, I will turn the MYCYOWA project over to students at Scattergood Friends School in West Branch, Iowa, and their teacher Blueberry Morningsnow—Poet, Artist, Educator, and Environmental Futurist.

Scattergood students will receive the interactive, all-weather MYCYOWA trail signs (wonderfully translated into Spanish by poet Curtis Bauer), the MYCYOWA.com website domain, QR code, etc. to inspire their own environmental engagement.

We’re also going to read and discuss “Nature” poetry with students of Blue’s class, “Poems of Nature, Time & Place.”