Overlooked by our country's large scale conservation projects, its native ecosystems almost entirely plowed or paved, the Midwest's land isn't easy to love. Tigerbeetle, Wintercreeper, a collaboration between Madeline Cass and Corson Androski, brings together two practices devoted to complicated places close to home. Considering what remains in the seams of our patchwork flyover states, this exhibit grieves our region's particular losses while celebrating the unique ways of knowing and caring for the land which are only possible here.

Free and open to the public. This exhibition is presented with the support of the Nebraska Arts Council and the Nebraska Cultural Endowment.

About the Artists:

Corson Androski is a researcher, conservationist, software developer, and photographer/filmmaker from Hutchinson, Kansas. Their work uses the concept of care (as labor, affect, and ethic, given/received by humans and other-than-humans, individuals, and systems) to consider emergent communities of illness alongside informal conservation of the small, overlooked ecosystems of weeds and fungi that spring up in the seams of our patchwork flyover state. Corson was awarded one of Amplify’s Artist Support Grant recipients in 2019 and is an Alternate Currents Working Group Member in 2020.

mad(eline) cass earned a BFA in studio art with an emphasis in photography from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln in 2017. she uses photography, poetry, artist books, drawing, tattooing, video & installation to examine the multitude of relationships between art, science, nature, and humanity, specifically by observing mycological (the study of mushrooms) metaphors of growth and decay.