Over the summer, we'll clean, catalogue, and transform trash collected on the beach into stunning costumes and sculptures for a performance in August and an exhibition in September.

Trash washing and soap making at 6018 N. Kenmore
Sunday, July 2: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Source, scavenge, and sift through trash with us on Sundays this Summer! Smith will then photograph, soak, scrub, air dry, and oven sanitize each day’s harvest of foraged micro-plastics to transform into costumes for a Persephone pageant on the beach. Join us each month in the messy poetry of circularity.

Tria Smith is the co-creator of The Persephone Project, which uses the myth of Persephone to address climate change. Costumes are being made from trashed plastic. If you saw and tried on her clothing at Expo, you can now be a part of the next iteration of Wear the Street!

Photo credit: Saverio Truglia