Field Trip

2026

“100 Rivers: Signals of Repair” is an 18-month public art project that launched in Coastal Louisiana and is traveling upstream through communities along the Mississippi River as part of a watershed-wide initiative inviting reflection on our relationship to water. Installed across parks, Main Streets, and cultural sites, the project places 100 semaphore signal flags within the landscape, creating a distributed network of communication carried between body, place, and collective experience.

The September 12 iteration of 100 Rivers is presented as part of Silverwood Park’s annual Field Trip Art & Nature Festival, featuring live outdoor music, local artists with Minneapolis Craft Market, guided art and nature activities with Silverwood educators, and food trucks, ice cream, beverage vendors. This outdoor event is free, for all ages, and you may drop-in anytime.

100 Rivers: Signals of Repair is also presented in conjunction with Sacred Waters, Shared Future and MR100, two centennial initiatives examining how the Mississippi River’s waters, ecology, management, and use have changed over the last century. Looking ahead to the next 100 years, the project asks a simple question: What is the River saying to us today?

DATE

September 12, 2026

PLACE

Silverwood Park
2500 County Rd E, St. Anthony, MN

LEAD ARTIST

Victoria Bradford Styrbicki

CHOREOGRAPHY

Victoria Bradford Styrbicki with Brenna Mosser

MATERIALS

Cotton crochet, Wooden flag poles, Paper, Pen, Found Objects