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Lu Xu will discuss their work and collaboration with Natural Urban Forests on “Liang’s Tears” at Franconia Sculpture Park incorporating Miyawaki Afforestation methods. Ethan Bryson will expand upon this project and discuss the new community garden and forest space at Franconia Sculpture Park as part of the 4Ground: Midwest Land Art Biennial.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Lu Xu is an artist and curator based in Guizhou, China. She is originally from Guiyang, China. Lu has exhibited at Tapir Gallery, Berlin; Southfirst Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; Weatherspoon Museum of Art, NC; Elsewhere Museum, NC; Franconia Sculpture Park; Bodenseekreis, Germany; and Salem Art Works, NY. Lu Xu worked as the Curator of Gatewood Gallery and Director of Art Truck at School of Art, the University of North Carolina at Greensboro from 2015-17.

Natural Urban Forests (NUF) was established by Ethan Bryson with the focus to address the urgent need to restore native forest ecosystems. Working with Shubhendu Sharma of Afforest, Bryson learned the Miyawaki Method of forest planting. As the US partner of Afforest and SUGi, NUF creates forests utilizing this innovative method that enables forests to grow 10x faster at 3x the density of standard afforestation methods.