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The Gatherade Stand is an ongoing co-authored art project in the form of a lemonade stand that serves drinks made from foraged plants. 

Artist, educator, and naturalist Gilian Rappaport initiated the project in Spring 2022 in Portland at Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. School through KSMoCA to encourage the connection of elementary school students and their communities to the natural world. 

Since its inception, The Gatherade Stand has supported community building, nature education, and cross-disciplinary art making through collages, drawings, poems, audio works, and soda making. Together the works offer a reflective moment to receive messages that we need to hear in this age of climate catastrophe. 

At this critical time, this project asks: What does it look like when elementary school students share the messages they hear from nature? What kinds of connections become possible? 


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Photos by Bex Copper