Outdoor Event: Self Guided Terracotta Nest Scavenger Hunt

Artist plotted installation scavenger hunt from Patrick and Karen Robison

Beginning Friday, April 2rd, 2021 until the nests are removed

Free and open to the public; kid friendly find 10 nests with GPS plots on Google Maps

Use the #FBMPnests so we can check in on our nests!

Location: Forest Beach Migratory Preserve 

4970 Country Club Rd, Port Washington, WI 53074, USA,  free parking lot available

Guide yourself through a scavenger hunt at Forest Beach Migratory Preserve, the previous debunked 116 acre land trust from the Ozaukee Washington Land Trust.  Located along Lake Michigan in the town of Belgium, Forest Beach Migratory Preserve contains a 5-acre hardwood forest with ephemeral ponds, open grassland and prairie, a partially wooded ravine and 5 constructed wetland ponds. 

ARTservancy Artists in Residence, Patrick and Karen Robison have place 10 terracotta nests at the OWLT property and plotted each one with a GPS coordinate on Google Maps: https://goo.gl/maps/c3HpcGrnBUhwgQFF7

Take pictures of the nests and post on Instagram using the hashtag #FMBPnests

Patrick Robison has painted, printed, woven, fused, fabricated and sculpted, but for the last 50 years mostly played with clay. Pat was enamored with its sensuality from the very first touch and drawn to astyle of work that retains a visual softness even after the pieces are fired. Clay is one of earth’s most abundant and magical materials. Responsive when wet, fragile when dry, and then hardened by its unpredictable journey in the kiln. Vessels for daily use or sculpture to entertain and intrigue, the work is a visual journal of images, symbols, and the stories they tell.

Current projects include: mixed media assemblage, painted terracotta forms, new vessel development, and sculptural works inspired by the Forest Beach Migratory Preserve ARTservancy Artist-in-Resident program. Pat is calling these painted terra cotta forms,‘habitat arts’. Artwork to enhance and support the natural world in our gardens, neighborhoods, and public lands.

Karen Robison believes, science is a discipline, a way of thinking about and investigating the natural world, and a way of knowing.  Science isn’t done. It is constantly growing, changing, and responding to the current culture. Albert Einstein said, “To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination.” I have put my imagination to good use by observing the world around us - especially our local ecosystems - as a scientist would; asking and investigating important questions; and connecting science knowledge and inquiry to our own lives.

Dress for the weather and for the ground underfoot.

Don't forget to take pictures of the nests and post on Instagram using the hashtag #FMBPnests

All ages welcome!  

No fee to join.

Contact Info:

ARTservancy | artservancy@gallery224.org | https://www.gallery224.org/artservancy-2020-2021

OWLT | lknobloch@owlt.org | https://owlt.org/