Poems and visual arts of the ‘Plant Companion Field Guide’

Thursday, April 23, 4–5 p.m.
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU

This event celebrates the work of several artists who played a role in creating Plant Companion Field Guide: A New(Old) Way to Know the Plants of the Palouse. In this durable book, Linda Russo’s poems and essayettes for five Indigenous Palouse Prairie plants are presented alongside botanical portraits by Cori Dantini.

Emphasizing companionship between humans and plants throughout time and place, Plant Companion asks: How can getting to know plants take part in transforming relationships to the land we inhabit, the traditional homelands of the Nimíipuu and Pelúuc, and to each other? Can we together remember and image future lineages of earth-honoring practices of interspecies kinship, reciprocity, and care?

The event will feature a short poetry reading, Shalla Newman’s printed broadsides framed by David Herbold, and a preview of copies of Plant Companion Field Guide, designed by Krista Brand. Free and open to the public.

Plant Companion Field Guide is funded by the 2025–26 David G. Pollart Center for Arts and Humanities Faculty Fellowship.

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