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Join Wormfarm Institute and 4Ground: Midwest Land Art Biennial for the opening reception of artist Tory Tepp’s Vortex to a Future Canoe this Friday, July 22, 5:30-6:30 pm at the historic Witwen Park. There will be an artist talk, earthly music & fermented beverages!

Vortex to a Future Canoe is a site-responsive, spiraling earthwork conceived as a bridge through time and place. Created by artist ToryTepp, this land art made of soil, repurposed barn wood, white birch trees & native plants will continue to evolve through this year’s FarmArtDTour!

Tory Tepp’s work has broadly focused on exploring and reestablishing metaphysical connections between social and environmental ecologies that shape communities. His most recent work focuses on the intersection of land art, agriculture, and eco-literacy. He received his BFA in painting from Parson’s, the New School for Design in New York City. In 2009, he earned his MFA in public practice as part of the inaugural class of Suzanne Lacy’s Public Practice program at Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles. After a temporary relocation to New Orleans, Tory assumed the role of the driver of a vintage armored car for Mel Chin’s Fundred Dollar Bill Project and proceeded on a 19,000-mile journey around the country representing the project. This led to the development of an itinerant art practice that kept him on the road, working from project to project, in New Orleans, Milwaukee, Los Angeles, Death Valley, Colorado, and the High Sierra Mountains. He currently splits his time between Sauk County, Wisconsin, and the Tampa Bay area in Florida.