Wild Medicine: A Multidimensional Creative Experience
In partnership with YouWraps & Alyssa Almeida, Jasmine Cassell, Larisa Groht, Nakesha Moore, Yvette Pabon, Katherine Petronaci, Cinthya Vong, and Noel Yheaulon
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Inspiring Engagement with Nature
Wild Medicine: A Multidimensional Creative Experience was an immersive artistic event created and hosted by Hagopian Arts in partnership with YouWraps. The event debuted YouWraps’ vinyl mural prints of Hagopian Art’s fifteenth Eco Mural, Wild Medicine: Mugwort, Mullein, and Mallow. Wild Medicine is an ongoing series within the Eco Mural Project, designed to celebrate native medicinal flora and inspire citizen engagement with the natural ecosystem. The murals encourage conversation and direct viewers to important resources. Eco Mural 15, the first in the Wild Medicine series, centers on local flora that provide medicinal benefits and sustenance.
Within this initiative, Hagopian Arts collaborated with women creatives in a live event, Wild Medicine: A Multidimensional Creative Experience. The event, held at Bok Building, was a beautiful sensory experience to be enjoyed by people of all ages. Guests were immersed in a multifaceted expression of creativity, featuring environmentally themed public art, live painting, video art by Cinthya Vong, colorful floral installations, Wild Medicine nature-inspired body painting, live art models, botanical installation, aerial dance, and live music. This experience showcased the collaboration of women empowered in their authenticity and creative expression - an interplay of women and nature. Through joyful celebration, the event connected residents across generations to native plants, and promoted every human’s responsibility to establish a safe and healthy relationship with the environment.
In the modern, industrial art space of the Bok Building, Hagopian Arts hosted a multidimensional installation experience combining public art, videography, photography, fine art body painting, creative modeling, dance, botanical artistry, and live music.
The unique intermingle of each creative practice brought the naturalistic Wild Medicine theme to life in an interactive, immersive experience.
"Our lives are busy paying for the space we take up, but when you can stop, be present and create art in a flow state it is amazing. We don't have to stick to the script, we can live life to the fullest."
~Kala Hagopian
Wild Medicine Collaborators
Women’s history is woven together with plants and the healing arts. In virtually every culture, women maintained knowledge of herbal healing for the prevention and treatment of maladies that afflicted their communities.
