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 19 iteration of 100 Rivers is presented as part of Mississippi Earthtones Festival, brought to you by Alton Main Street, the Sierra Club Illinois’ Three Rivers Project and Jacoby Arts Center, is a celebration of our river through art, music, and conservation which is held every 3rd Saturday in September.
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 19, 2026
PLACE
Alton Amphitheater (#1 Riverfront Drive – Alton, IL 62002)
LEAD ARTIST
Victoria Bradford Styrbicki
CHOREOGRAPHY
Victoria Bradford Styrbicki with Brenna Mosser
MATERIALS
Cotton crochet, Wooden flag poles, Paper, Pen, Found Objects
VIDEO/PHOTO
© A House Unbuilt
