Hi friend!

Life has continued life-ing since my last missive. The acute grief of losing my job of 16 years has subsided, but the job market is grim. Maybe you too have been in the trenches? In the last few months, I have been interviewed by AI bots, tossed out of the running by AI because of technicalities or missed words, and offered endless remote jobs that are basically just training AI models (and rarely other work). It’s grim. AI is the main reason our electricity bills are skyrocketing. And AI is accelerating our descent into an unchangeable climate catastrophe. But  I digress.

 In some kind of resistance to all the forced machine learning lately, I’ve been trying to make more art lately. I spent the last couple months creating work in what I’m calling “analog Photoshop” style. Based off of my 2021 site-specific installation Fallout Shelter at Hair+Nails Gallery, I have been utilizing the same photos of canned goods that I used as wallpaper in the gallery. I’ve laminated wooden panels of varying sizes with these inkjet photo prints (original photos I took at grocery stores including CUB foods here in Minneapolis, and corner markets in France, Greece, and Ireland during my travels in late 2019), and then used watercolor paints to alter the brand or food names. For instance, the traditional French dish cassoulet becomes CREATIVITY, the Greek canned milk brand NoyNoy becomes JOYJOY (of course!), and the extra large can of Maiz Blanco is transformed into the extra necessary MUTUAL AID! It was relaxing and quite fun to do the color matching. Satisfying, just like those social media videos of people color matching a landscape or eyes or a still life to make the little card become invisible! Except, I wasn’t going for completely invisible. I want some evidence of the hand - the haptic evidence of the analog felt important  as we move evermore into a digital age that seeks to cross the uncanny valley. 

So if this piqued your interest - you can find the pieces at the MCAD Art Sale next week - November 20-22 (online preview here!). There are a range of sizes and prices to match your budget and your wallspace! And if you are excited about this experiment in analog photoshop but can’t make it to the MCAD Art Sale or don’t live in the Twin Cities - let me know! I’m rather excited to make more of these if there’s interest. 
 In other creative news, I’m working on launching a small (5”x7” or 4”x6” - haven’t ironed everything out yet) monthly print subscription starting in the new year! These are fine art giclée prints, archival and full color, of original artwork, coming directly to your mailbox every month. These prints will be original works, available exclusively to subscribers in limited editions. And as a bonus, I will be donating a portion of the profits from every print subscription sold to various fundraisers and causes every month, so not only will you be supporting this queer, disabled small business, you’ll be helping support 12 mutual aid efforts as well. I’m excited to try out this experiment in sustainability with a subscription offering on top of creating something that also directly helps others as well. Stay tuned for more info and how to sign up!


Also, a reminder that there are zines (Bolozine!, ADAPT!, and more!), ceramic necklaces (lots of new stock coming soon for the holiday season!), and giclée prints of my paintings and drawings in my webstore. If you’re looking for holiday gifts for anyone who loves bold statements and radical politics, there’s a lot of perfect stuff in my shop!

In love and solidarity,
Kelley

Hi!!

 It’s been a busy last few weeks, art wise. I had numerous pieces in the MCAD Art Sale, I’m gearing up for an in person sale this weekend (more down below), and I’ve been investing time in growing my art as a business (which is weird to even hear myself say, but I’ll explain more below). 

 First, I want to let you know that I have work currently up in the Sioux City Art Center's Biennial Exhibition: Climate/Change through January 5, 2025. If you’re in western Iowa or traveling through Sioux City, I urge you to check it out! I don’t know if my health is going to allow me to make the trip, but I would LOVE if someone would send me pictures if they do go. It's so cool to see the windsocks displayed in a new way!

Next, I have been putting a lot of effort into thinking of my art as a business. In September, I was extremely honored to be one of the small queer-owned businesses supported through the PFUND Equity Fund. This support includes a grant as well as membership in the Twin Cities 2STQLGBTIA+ Chamber of Commerce Quorum (why aren’t they called Queerum? - my sweetie Anna rightfully asks every time I mention them lol - clearly a missed opportunity) and monthly meetings with other queer entrepreneurs.

 The PFUND money is helping me to hire assistants to help with the tasks I cannot do on my own, including helping me to do in person events and wrangle the clay and kilns. I’m excited to share this money with other Queer and Trans people, and it is just so incredibly helpful to have help because there are so many little things that I can’t manage on my own with my health where it currently is. In addition to the PFUND money, I’ve also qualified for Medicaid-funded PCA assistance. This has been a game-changer in terms of what I’m capable of doing in a day, thanks to the numerous people who are helping me save energy at nearly every turn by running errands, doing my grocery shopping, making me meals, keeping my house clean, and helping me keep making art. I’m so grateful that I have the help I need right now. I’m worried, like most disabled and/or queer and trans people I know, about the future of healthcare in this country, but for now, I’m being supported and I’m feeling better because of it. May there come a day in our lifetimes where everyone can access the healthcare and support they need and deserve. I know Universal Healthcare likely won't happen in the next 4 years, but we need it now more than ever.

 Also, I want to let you know that this coming Sunday, December 1, from 10AM-4PM, Kelley A. Meister Fine Art will be tabling at the Queer Voices Makers Mart at the Open Book, 1011 South Washington Avenue Minneapolis, MN, 55415. AP Looze will be helping me out with set up/break down and with tabling, so you might see them at my table when I’m resting. I’ve got lots of new ceramics for you, prints, and even some zines!

But if you can’t make it or don’t live in the Twin Cities, I’ll be updating my store on December 7 with all kinds of fun new stuff (sneak peeks in the WIP shots below - lots of pronoun pendants and ACT UP inspired pieces). I’m shipping nationwide, and if you are international, just email me directly and we can work something out. I would love to be part of your gift giving or just making you feel like your hottest, queerest self with a new statement-piece necklace, so check it out if you haven’t in a while.
 
Also, if you are interested in some of my art AND want to help support four families in Gaza, look out for an upcoming silent auction starting December 10. I’ll be contributing some prints and hopefully a ceramic piece or two. Details will be here - and if you don’t want to wait until then and want to contribute to this wonderful direct action mutual aid campaign, they have weekly targets they are striving to reach to keep giving the families steady support during the ongoing occupation, violence, and strife they are facing.
 Finally, a quick update on my health. It’s been a year of measured rest and taking things slow. I was part of the NIH-funded RECOVER-Vital trial for extended use of Paxlovid in Long Covid Patients this summer. Unfortunately, things did not change in any big or exciting ways after that trial, besides a temporary elevation in my liver levels. But I have been able to make substantial gains in strengthening through my physical therapy program and hard work at pacing. So far, it hasn’t made a huge impact on my fatigue, PEM (post exertional malaise/crashes), or brain symptoms, but my overall pain has reduced some, including in my shoulder which has finally stopped dislocating so frequently. Hurrah!! Unfortunately, I’m still having massive headaches when I even over do things a tiny bit. So I keep pacing and resting and hoping for more treatment options and/or answers/prognosis. It’s a bit easier to pace when I have fewer things on my schedule, medical appointments included. So I’m enjoying that ease, even though it may seem like I’m trying less to find answers. It’s all about balance, I guess.
 Thank you, everyone, for your support and patronage. If you ever want to talk about a custom commission (painting or ceramics, mainly, but I’m open to other ideas), I’m all ears! I’ve also got another new offering I’ll be rolling out in the next few months, so stay tuned for more info soon.
In love and solidarity,
Kelley

My draft has been titled January 2024 Newsletter, and I’m getting it in just under the wire! Hooray! I have quite a few things to share this month, several works in progress, and updates with my store and offerings.

It has been over 100 days that the people of Gaza have been under siege, unbelievable numbers of people have been killed and injured by the occupying forces of Israel. Gaza is on my mind every single day, and I refuse to ignore the genocide that is funded and supported by our government. There are many resources in my previous December newsletter if you are still looking for ways to support. And hurray for Minneapolis for passing a veto-proof ceasefire resolution written by my former council member Jason Chavez! St. Paul - you’re up! If you would like to read more about how and why my most recent work POrTaLs (about living with Long Covid) includes a call to Free Palestine, I wrote about it on my blog (and on instagram). 

Come join myself and curator Drew Maude-Griffen at our open house on Saturday, February 3 from 1-3pm. At 1:30pm, Drew and I will have a discussion about the work. Register here.
Some access notes:
1. The open house will have masks required and provided. 
2. The open house is a fragrance free space.
3. Regarding air circulation: "The M’s HVAC system uses MERV13 filters, the highest-rated filter available. MERV13 filters are 90% to 98% minimum efficient at capturing particles. The air exchange rate is roughly 3/4 per hour, which is to say that in an hour roughly 3/4 of the air gets replaced with new air."
4. Seating will be available. 
I am hopeful that I will be feeling up for being there, participating in the panel discussion, and seeing you there!
The Currents exhibition continues through February 25, 2024.

My new webstore has been keeping me busy. Thank you to everyone who has supported me with purchases or shared my store on your socials. I finished a few more abolitionist cat paintings at the end of the year, and they are now in the store. I am currently working on new cat paintings with messages that remind us to rest more, aka anti-capitalist cats. I've also been dreaming about how to include t-shirts and other apparel...Stay tuned!
Also, I am working on new ceramic necklaces. The ceramic studio in the artist lofts I live in has *finally* been upgraded and our kilns are fixed! So I will be offering new necklaces soon. But I need to purchase kiln posts in order to finish firing them, so please buy one of the listed necklaces (or anything else!) so I can get the new ones going. I hope to be able to offer necklace commissions soon.

Long Covid has made teaching impossible for the past year, which has had a huge impact on my income and is also deeply disappointing. I love teaching! I always learn so much from my students. It really feeds my soul. But I have a new idea that I could possibly continue teaching by creating asynchronous offerings. That way, I can incorporate the rest that I need as I create and deliver the curricula, as well as preserve my cognitive and physical energy by not also facilitating large-group meetings (despite the rush it used to give me, it’s a massive energy suck now, and I can barely last 5 min in that kind of setting - and I have found this out the hard way). So - if you are interested in helping me decide what kind of teaching offerings to create, please take this quick survey! No obligation to take or purchase the future classes, but I would love to know what skills either you want to learn or you think other folks might be interested in as well.

I’m working on some new writing, and I’m hopeful to collect my thoughts and experiences over the last 18+ months living with Long Covid to share with others. I am planning to publish them in pieces here on my blog as well as in a self-published ‘zine that will also include some of the artworks I have been creating. In particular, I want to share my story for others who may be wondering if they, too, are experiencing Long Covid. I want to share the treatments I have sought out (so many!) and what has worked for me and what has not. I am hopeful that it will be of some usefulness to others. I’ll be linking to these blogs in upcoming newsletters, so that you can read them if you are interested. Remember that there is no test for Long Covid, no approved treatments/cures, and little clarity on who is more at risk (over 1/3 of people with LC have no identifying risk conditions). As Dr. Ziyad Al-Aly said at the recent Senate hearing on Long Covid on January 18, 2024: "The best way to prevent Long Covid is to prevent Covid-19."
 
Take care of yourself and your loved ones.
In love and solidarity,
Kelley

I started painting these portals late last winter. It was around when I started some really critical medications & supplements for my long covid and when I was also the sickest. I wasn't sure if any of them were going to work, and a lot of the most useful ones needed to be slowly titrated up to the therapeutic dose. I'm nearly at the therapeutic doses, 9 months later, my baseline has definitely improved, but I'm still a far cry from where I was before I got covid. That being said, there aren't any medications actually FDA approved for my condition. A lot of these are experimental and/or off label, come with some pretty sucky side effects, and are pretty expensive (insurance doesn't cover everything). The portals were a way to process all of this.

But I'm endlessly grateful for the privileges I do have, especially that I even have medical care available to me. One of the more insidious cruelties of the endless bombing, displacement, and cutting off from the rest of the world that the people of Gaza have experienced for the last 65(+) days is the subsequent and systemic lack of health care - from bombing hospitals and killing health care workers and sick and disabled people to the impossibility of getting much needed medications, anesthesia, medical supplies, etc into Gaza. Infections and disease are killing people, too. This is all part of the plan, this is how genocide works, and it is indisputably horrifying.

Someone was comparing the events of October 7 to what happened here on Sep 11, and while they were talking about the horrors committed/witnessed in Israel, I think actually a clearer parallel lies in the responses. The xenophobic, nationalistic, revenge-filled hate towards a large group of people/country/religion and the inability to see the nuance that the "revenge" is so far out of line with what originally happened. To be clear, I don't condone revenge, I'm just working out the metaphor here. And of course, there are limits to the metaphor, and it doesn't quite align in the way that the people of Palestine have been living under apartheid oppression for decades and generations.

Regardless (and to paraphrase Nicki Kattoura's moving and heartbreaking Instagram post from December 10, 2023 - see below), every time I take my meds, I think about Gaza. It's the least I can do. We must sustain our horror and our hope for an end to this. And to all genocides. If this is the match that lit your flame of radicalism or if you've been burning long and hard, maybe for decades, don't let the cynicism, the comfort we have here, or the fear put out your light. Every time you find another comrade, the fire burns brighter. Someday our blaze will outshine the real terrorists: the war criminals, the nuclear zealots, the fascists, the oligarchs.

My portals are a gateway, a transport to another dimension. Not necessarily one where I'm suddenly healed and "back to normal." Yes, in moments of despair and grief, I do want that, but in clearer moments, what I want is to exist in another dimension where my energy-limiting disabilities aren't a limitation but an adaptation or even an advantage. Where I can thrive at this slower pace. Where my disabilities become new abilities, and all the grief I have transforms into knowledge and wisdom. Through the portal, ableism is extinct, and everyone is valued and necessary and vital to creating a place that accommodates everyone.

*This* portal, though, is a way to push those visions even further. Through this portal, there is an end to genocide and apartheid. Permanently, lastingly. Conflicts are resolved through reconciliation and finding shared understanding, not through war, terror, military might, and force.

If you want to see this portal and the other 109 portals, they are on exhibition in the Currents: Adaptation, Brilliance, and Joy show, up through February 25, 2024, at the Minnesota Museum of American Art.

I have a few updates to share, but first, I know your heart has been heavy, too, these days as we bear witness to the tragedy of yet another genocide, this time in real time as the world is witness. I’ve been supporting Palestinian liberation for nearly 2 decades, but the horror of what I have seen these past 2 months has been beyond. I know as someone who hasn’t been able to engage in my usual forms of protest (feet in the street), it’s been hard to figure out where to put my energy. I’d like to offer you some ideas, feel free to share yours with me.

• Buy an E-Sim to help people in Gaza communicate
• Donate to Anera who are helping Gazans with hygiene supplies and food
• Donate to Medical Aid for Palestinians to help with medical needs in Gaza
• Donate to Beirut Art Center’s fund for helping artists and cultural workers in Gaza (shared from a trusted artist friend and Palestinian in Beirut)
• Send a free fax to your representatives - include your art and/or your thoughts (brilliant idea shared from Nomy Lamm, a long admired artist friend of friends and outspoken Jewish/Jewitch anti-zionist)
• Sign and support MN Artists for Ceasefire (or find a local artist group near you) 

In case it needs saying, I am an unwavering supporter of liberation for all people, everywhere. Creativity, cooperation, reconciliation, transformation, and community-building are necessary. Fossil fuel-induced climate change, capitalism, colonialism, imperialism, fascism, these are the multi-headed hydra we must put our efforts towards defeating. It’s 2023, and I wish genocide was going extinct rather than the precious flora and fauna of our world. 



It’s also 2023, and I also wish for us that Covid-19 was as extinct as our government acts like it is. Unfortunately, it’s still thriving and mutating. As you likely know, I have Long Covid (read all about it in my last newsletter). I didn’t get Covid at the outset - I had just over 2 years (and 3 vaccines) before I caught it. But it changed my life completely. Not overnight, but gradually, over 6 months, I got sicker, more tired, and able to do less and less. 

It is from this tragedy/transformation that I have created my newest works, one of which you can see in person at the Minnesota Museum of American Art from December 7, 2023 - February 28, 2024 in downtown St. Paul. Working at a near glacial pace at times, I have been creating artworks from my bed and couch, painting portals of hope and healing onto all of my Rx and supplement bottles (110 at last count!). I hope that you will get a chance to see the work if you are in the Twin Cities - it’s a show that has been carefully curated by emerging curator Drew Maude-Griffen, and features 4 other disabled artists from the region, sharing our “adaptations, brilliance, and joy.” 

Relatedly, due to the Long Covid, I have been unable to work as a teaching artist (my main income for the past decade and a half) for much of this year or I’ve had to work in an extremely limited and/or modified manner. I’m not sure when or whether I’ll ever be able to return to that kind of work, hauling bins of art supplies around the state, facilitating creative experiences for 30, 60, sometimes 100! kids, teens, and/or adults at a time! It was joyous, inspiring, meaningful work, and I do miss it.

But bills still need to be paid, especially my rent (both at my studio and my apartment). The combined rent alone is $1,750 (and 75% of that is my Section 42 rent-subsidized (!) apartment). I share this because I believe in financial transparency; I think our society does not talk about money nearly enough! I haven't yet pursued disability (it's a grueling, demoralizing, discouraging, red tape nightmare of the highest order, especially for those with long covid, as it's not an "official" disability, yet) and honestly, I want to work. Especially as an artist. Making art is healing, though I have to do it in pretty modified ways from how I used to. So one idea I have been working on setting up for months is to have a store on my website to sell art more directly. And I’m so excited for you to check it out! There are…

• very cute abolitionist cat prints a friend helped me print up for sale
• lots of ceramic pendants for the fashion-forward and bold amongst you
• zines from my archive
• options to commission an original painting
• ways to hire me to consult on your upcoming grant proposal
• and more (see below)!

If you have any ideas for artwork of mine you would want to purchase that you don’t already see or think others might want, reach out!! [update 12/13/23 - I believe all of the domestic shipping/pick-up snafus are worked out, but I'm still trying to figure out how the int'l shipping works. Please email me if you want it shipped internationally OR IF ANY OTHER ISSUES COME UP! There's always a lot of glitches to be fixed when starting something new! :)]

 It would mean the world if you supported me in this effort by buying something, sharing about my work on social media or by sending it to a friend. Navigating this ableist world in a newly disabled body shows me over and over that we can’t do this thing called life alone. Community support is everything, and I thank you from the bottom of my big, huge beating heart for any and all support you have shown me over the last year and a half and going forward as I rebuild my life. I couldn’t have done it // can’t do it without so, so many of you.
 
Take care of yourself and your loved ones.
In love and solidarity,
Kelley

Travel through the portal with me.

To my dear, dear friends, fans, supporters, advocates, and appreciators,

 I have both a lot to tell you and not much to say.
It's a strange combination.

TL;DR: I'm in an art show, I'm sharing research over zoom, and I have Long Covid.

 First off, there are 2 art things to mention:

1) I am in a wonderful group show (see below) in Minneapolis at Fresh Eye Gallery called "the bed beside me." This show is only up for 2 more days (today and tomorrow!). If you can make it over there, it's a really incredible show that has been thoughtfully and carefully curated by Drew Maude-Griffen. All of the artists in the show have created our works of art from our beds. And it is a special thing to me to be able to exhibit this work with this group of artists. Why am I making art from my bed and not my studio, you might be wondering. Well, I'll get to that soon, I promise.

2) I am doing a research share out in just a couple weeks on Monday, June 26 at 7pm CDT. In this virtual presentation, I will be sharing out about the research I did this past year and a half on these secret government tests that were conducted here in Minneapolis and in my hometown of St. Louis and elsewhere in the 1950s. I would love to see your face beaming back at me while I talk about radiological weapons, Cold War secrecy, ethically fraught human tests, and how this all still reverberates today as we have seen in the myriad responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. More details about how to join the zoom at the bottom of the email.


 

Ok! Now that we have got the big art things on the table, I want to talk to you about some harder things.

But I'm not sure how to say it.

Do I list all my new diagnoses or symptoms for you (it’s Long Covid, in a nutshell, but also it’s myalgic encephalomyelitis / chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, orthostatic intolerance, asthma, and sleep apnea)?

Do I try to tell the story in a linear way or do I stick to the present moment?

Do I share with you the hardships, the supports I’ve received, or skip that stuff altogether?

I don’t know.

And that’s partly why this newsletter didn’t get to you in a timely manner, in a way that gave you more time to see the art show I’m in. But it’s also just that everything in my life is moving at a g l a c i a l p a c e right now. And at times, I can accept that, but I also feel incredibly frustrated by it a lot of the time as well.
For people who have diagnoses like mine, the medical industrial complex doesn’t really know what to do with us. Thankfully, I have had to suffer a lot less gaslighting and disbelief than other people who had post-viral illnesses pre-Covid or who have to also suffer the racism of our medical system or who are unlucky enough to be living in a deeply covid-denying area.

Despite this, I am still sick 13 months after first my Covid-19 positive PCR, still sick even though I had 4 vaccines in my arms before getting sick and one since, still sick even though I’ve been to over 100 doctors visits, so many types of therapy, and “alternative” treatments.

I also went from working as a teaching artist with the Science Museum of MN, Eagan Art House, and COMPAS to working from home as a curriculum designer to not working at all. I joked that going to doctors visits was a part time job, but in reality, getting better became my full time job.

And while I am still sick, I am also feeling better.

Is it because my schedule is 10% of what it once was?

Is it because I’m finally “pacing” my life the way my Occupational Therapist instructed me to do a year ago - which truly took months and months to actually figure out how to counteract my incredibly honed ability to push through?

Is it the medications, the bodywork and acupuncture, and the CPAP-machine assisted sleep?

Who fucking knows. But I can appreciate that I can sit in front of my computer again for an hour or two and work on writing this without it making me sicker.

I have other thoughts to share about this journey I’m on - like how it feels to have a diagnosis (ME/chronic fatigue) that was the brunt of jokes throughout the 90s and that I absolutely did not understand until I couldn’t move my body at all, even to get out of bed. And how it feels to be newly disabled and what that means for my art practice. And how much - oh so so much - I have to learn about my own internalized ableism and how incredibly lucky we are to live in a post ADA time that disabled people organized and fought so hard to achieve, and yet, it’s also still incredibly difficult to be a disabled person in our society.

 So I’m proposing that I am going to do more of these newsletters. I’m feeling jaded about social media (who isn’t?), and after these last few deeply isolating years, I want to find ways to make authentic connections again. I also feel excited to tell you about what I’m thinking about, researching, making, and offering. I’ve got lots of ideas cooking, but it’s the slow cooker version of my life, so it will take some time.
 If you’ve read this far, I’m really impressed. And if you want to reach out to me just to say hello, that would be amazing. I was reading over who opened this newsletter when I sent it out last summer, and it really warmed my heart to see so many names on there, including people from all over the country, artist friends I’ve met on residencies, old pals and profs from college, and the incredible amount of friends I have who are not on social media! I’ve been reading Shoshana Zuboff’s The Age of Surveillance Capitalism for the last few years (it’s a serious tome, y’all!), and I commend all of you who have resisted or let go of the tentacles of Meta and its ilk. Tell me your favorite thing about it, I truly want to know.

In love and solidarity,
Kelley

Come see my new installation, Fallout Shelter. The show will run from April 3 through May 1. Upstairs are fellow artists Kieran Myles-Andrés Tvebakk and Lamia Abukhadra. Look for my encompassing, subterranean experience in the basement of the gallery.

Fallout Shelter | Kelley Meister
April 3-May 1, 2021

 Basement Gallery
Hair + Nails Gallery 2222 E 35th St., MPLS, MN 55407

 Other Artists Exhibiting on Main Floor:
Kieran Myles-Andrés Tverbakk
Lamia Abukhadra

 Opening Reception:
Saturday, April 3, 7-10pm

 Open Hours: 
Sat/Sun 1-5pm
 or by appointment: hairandnailsart@gmail.com

 Covid Precautions:
Masks required!
Limit of 10 occupants in gallery
HEPA air filters in all rooms of the gallery
Backyard open for masked social distancing hangout during opening while waiting for limited entry into show

 Accessibility:
The exhibition is on two floors. The main floor is wheelchair accessible. The basement exhibition space is reached by 12 wooden stairs. Images and descriptions of the basement portion of the exhibition are provided. A single-stall ungendered bathroom is located in the basement.

 On Wednesday, April 14 and Tuesday, April 20, I will be hosting a Live Virtual Visit at 6pm CT for anyone who wants to experience the show virtually with me. I will provide a gallery tour of the space and answer any questions. Please fill out the registration form here to attend and let me know of any accommodations you will need.

Postponed from 2020, the 10th Art(ists) on the Verge cohort (Candice Davis, AP Looze, Kelley Meister, and Sarah Nassif) will present our work this spring and summer. My mobile experience, Hot Zone, a 100-mile bike ride from Monticello Nuclear Generating Plant to Prairie Island Nuclear Generating Plant along Hahawakpa/Misi Ziipi/Mississippi River will take place in 3 segments on Saturdays throughout the summer. Participants may join up to ~15 total for each ride (TBD due to social distancing and other COVID restrictions at the time of the ride), all others will be invited to watch via live stream. We will be doing environmental monitoring of the river valley, using radiation monitoring equipment as well as our eyes, hands, and phones to draw and photograph our observations of the flora and fauna along the way.

Stay tuned for more details about how to join and/or watch! And please get in touch if this sparks any interest!