Name: Stewardship and Creating
Start: 2025-03-01T17:00:00-0600
End: 2025-03-01T18:00:00-0600

The Wild Things Conference Returns Saturday, March 1, 2025 - SOLD OUT

We’re thrilled to welcome you again to learn and share your expertise with our community. We’ve put together an exciting lineup of workshops and sessions from regional and national experts, plus meet & greets, video content, exhibitors, and sponsors. With over 140 presentations and discussion panels to choose from, the in-person program engages a diverse range of topics, research, and skills, and plenty of opportunities to meet with friends, old and new.

Thank you as well to our sponsors, scholarship supporters, and exhibitors who are all helping to make this another tremendously successful Wild Things.

Tickets for Wild Things 2025 are sold out. For additional information on the 2025 conference, visit wildthingscommunity.org.

**PLEASE NOTE: Some details are subject to change.**

NOTICE: Please be advised that photos and videos will be taken during Wild Things 2025. By attending, you consent to be photographed, filmed, and/or otherwise recorded. Your attendance on this event constitutes your agreement to the use of any resulting media by Friends of Illinois Nature Preserves for promotional, marketing, or any other purpose in perpetuity, without further approval or any compensation.

Saturday March 1, 2025 5:00pm - 6:00pm CST

Rooms 21-23 & 32-34

This presentation explores the association between stewardship and creating. Regular stewardship provides a safe place to be curious and to observe. For certain groups of people, this can fuel art practices such as journaling. These outlets can be helpful to investigate, document and reflect. Reflection is especially important for immigrants and people of color who historically may not have the same access or connection to the land. This presentation will engage the audience through personal stories, showcase artwork, highlight the importance of inclusivity through one volunteer’s journey of stewardship and how creativity cemented her relationship with the land.

Presenters

Sima Shah

Traditional artist and printmaker, Kiwi versus the Paintbrush

I am a traditional illustrator, printmaker and nature journalist who cares deeply about social justice and land conservation. I have my certificate in traditional botanical arts from the Chicago Botanic Garden. The last several years I have been illustrating the plants in Illinois... Read More →

Saturday March 1, 2025 5:00pm - 6:00pm CST
Rooms 21-23 & 32-34

Poster

Wild Things 2025

Sima Shah

Attendees (35)

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