and the green grass grows all around and around and the green grass grows all around

Swannatopia Presents: “And the green grass grows all around and around and the green grass grows all around” within Buncombe County Special Collections March 26 - June 10, 2025 as part of the Come Hell or High Water community memory project.

 

We, of Swannatopia, look forward to using our time within this space to collect our thoughts and incubate our visions as we redirect our gaze toward the farms, forests, and legume lagoons of our future. 

 

Many of the objects on display were created in response to the prompt “How Do We Mark The Flood?” for an event held on November 23, 2024 at Warren Wilson College; others were included in our recent exhibition “DEER FREAKS…and decoys.” and accompanying puppet fashion show “How Do We Disappear, Yet Still Be Seen?” at Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center.  

 

Our Special Collections selections offer a glimpse into the vision—trees and seeds in anticipation of spring days to come.

 

On Saturday, April 26, from 2-4 pm, join us in the Reading Room as ISA Certified Master Arborist April Wilson and colleagues will share tree failure data collected post Helene, following a “crankie” performance by artist Primrose Coke and a report back from Experimental Forest Club/friends of the woods.

 

We also have invited seed farmer/steward/breeder/ Leeza Chen (of Appalachian Seed Growers Collective & Utopian Seed Project) to join us as she collects seed stories & songs for a storytelling project later this summer.