***registration now available***

Wild Seed Project is thrilled to host Indigo Arts Alliance at our Native Seed Center!  

Deconstructing the Boundaries is a three-year partnership between Indigo Arts Alliance and Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens, fostering resilience and unity within our communities while aspiring for a brighter future. As people of the global majority, Black, Brown and Indigenous communities have been historically disenfranchised, culturally erased and forced to be resilient. And as concerned citizens of the world, we bear witness to social shifts and remain steady through political opposition, economic strife and social unrest. We aspire to create opportunities for recovery and reinvestment. In doing so, we hope to rejuvenate our relationship with not only the land, but with each other.

For the culmination of the partnership, Indigo Arts Alliance and Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens have commissioned artist, Daniel Minter to create a semi-permanent public artwork on the grounds of the botanical gardens this summer. His project titled In the Voice of Trees, will consist of a large, freestanding sculpture using tree trunks, bound together, referencing the  African proverb, “Sticks in a bundle are unbreakable.” These trees will then be strung with handmade, clay beads the size of golf balls to as large as oranges. Each bead represents the hopes and prayers we have for the generations to come. This project is a meditation on both our unity and endurance.

This workshop is led by IAA artists Rosalba Breazeale & Verónica A. Pérez. Participants will have the opportunity to hand-form the clay beads that will be strung across Daniel Minter’s sculpture, each one representing the prayers and aspirations held by the participant for the future. Both the project and its community participation will culminate in a public artwork at the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens in July 2025, that stands as a tangible representation of our commitment to one another, and for the generations to come.

This workshop is free, but space is limited. Please register to join us.