Earth Healer depicts a female figure composed of sod and earth. Healing herbs are growing from within the figure’s cradling arms. The work shows a human connection with the earth and is part of an ongoing vision to combine the human figure with landscape and the natural world.

Like quilting, gardening is often a piece by piece endeavor. We stitch together plants that have meaning for us, shared from a friend’s garden or collected from a plant sale, to wrap our homes in the beauty of nature. Using the Log Cabin quilt pattern, we will stitch together a vertical tapestry of plants and mosses.

The butterfly is a rich symbol for change, diversity, and interdependence. Explore this walking meditation as part of your journey with nature in the wattle-woven copper and sapling walls of the Butterfly’s Journey.

Gonbad is a traditional Persian-style dome made from untraditional materials. Ehtesham looked to ancient papermaking techniques and modern paper consumption for inspiration and harvested grasses from Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden to make the bricks.

The Music House will draw on children’s natural inquisitiveness to transform Everyone’s House in the Children’s Garden into a large multi-sensory sound sculpture. Its primary medium will be a material often viewed as a nuisance in the local ecology, bamboo. The Music House, which will also incorporate piano parts, provides opportunity for interaction and collaboration by Garden guests and can be explored and played by Garden guests of all ages.

Powerful, patient, and wise, turtles have a mythical significance around the world and across diverse cultures. Surprisingly, the humble turtle’s symbolism parallels the iconic tree symbol in creation stories and folklore from Native Americans to Indian mythology. This living sculpture invites guests to explore the vast significance of the turtle, including its association with the environmental movement. The persistence, power, and patience the turtle represents will indeed be needed to protect and nurture our natural world.

At first glance, this bamboo sculpture near the community garden greets the viewer with 24, 8-foot-tall, vertical, bamboo poles arranged forming a cube. However, with a bit of investigation, an image (and a clue) will reveal itself for all to see.

Like many obstacles, this imposing structure made from trees has a playful side.  Let your childlike perspective guide you to a different view.

Hop, skip, and decode in the code playground. Practice your balancing skills while cracking this puzzle.

Walking Sticks allows for a new interpretation of how plants exist in our natural environment, giving something that most people discard a new life. The limbs are transformed and reconfigured but not tamed or edited too much, to allow for freedom and expression of the limbs.

·         Art 180 Teen Leadership Council: installation exploring themes of environmental justice, identity, place

·         Art on Wheels: sand pendulum