farms, dances, and cultivates community at Zumwalt Acres in Sheldon, IL. Gavi is excited about ways that we can be in loving relationship with our bodies, the land and waterways, one another, and our ancestors. They are often found wandering the woods, contemplating climate science, and striving to live into Jewish time. They received a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and in Earth & Planetary Science from Yale University.

dances, writes, teaches, and organizes, currently in Changsha, China. Her work focuses on improvisation, liberation pedagogies, and the relationship between feeling free and creating collective structures for freedom. She received a B.A. in Ethnicity, Race and Migration from Yale University and is rooted in the teachings of Audre Lorde, James Baldwin, Amanda Reid, Eryn Rosenthal, 邹昆, 李兰, and countless more.

dances and writes in the Bay Area and Chicago. Her work focuses on regenerative food systems and the intersections of art and environmental activism. She is a resident artist with UneARTh Art Society, exploring how intentional embodiment grounds us into the oneness of our planet’s ecologies, and the vitality of art and art making in the climate justice movement. She has a Master's degree in Journalism from Northwestern University and a Bachelor's degree in Environmental Analysis from Pomona College.

Forrest Bruce (Ojibwe) is a PhD student in the Learning Sciences at Northwestern University. He is broadly interested in land-based education and the design of community-based learning environments that support Indigenous ways of knowing and being. He coordinates programs for "Indigenous STEAM," a research collective and summer camp engaging Indigenous youth in land- and water-based learning.

Paul Molina (Kickapoo) and Dave Spencer (Mississippi Chata/Diné) bring Oka Homma, a Chicago-based Drum group, to present intertribal songs of the Southern Plains. Oka Homma formed in March 2023 to contribute to a resurgence of arts engagement needed to mobilize and build community. In addition, the Drum aims to re/introduce cultural practice amongst Chicago’s intergenerational Native American community. Through song, these singers share a small taste of southern plains culture with the Midwest populace.

Meghann Wilkinson is a dancer, teacher, bodyworker, bumblebee monitor, home herbalist, and fan of being outside. She has worked with Chicago-based Lucky Plush Productions since 2004, where she has originated roles in over a dozen devised works and has toured the country and abroad. She teaches at Columbia College in Chicago and loves the joyful act of moving with other earth-connected bodies.

Melinda Jean Myers (she/her) is a multidisciplinary artist who creates in the areas of dance and choreography, theater and storytelling, and music composition. Her research includes solo choreography and performance, and collaborations with theater artists, filmmakers, writers, music composers, media designers and dance artists. At University of Iowa, she is an Assistant Professor of Contemporary Dance and Choreography. Myers earned her MFA from University of Iowa and BFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. She was honored to perform internationally with the Trisha Brown Dance Company for four years, and she has toured nationally with Lucky Plush Productions for ten years.

A Georgia native, Daniel Gibson has danced professionally since he graduated from the University of Georgia. He opened his career with a national tour with 13th Floor Performing Arts, where he was a featured performer and choreographer. His formal training includes African, hip-hop, jazz, contemporary, modern, tap, ballet, and breakdance. After relocating to Chicago, Daniel performed with Culture Shock Chicago, Chicago Dance Crash, the Seldoms, 5 Star Boogie, Elephant Filmworks, the Oprah Winfrey Show, a national campaign for UPS, Johnny Dangerous, and Kid Sister with Kanye West. He was a featured dancer in the short film, "Wonderland or Humans who talk and dance." He teaches at both the university and primary school level. He was adjunct dance faculty for NIU and the resident Dance/Mindfulness instructor for Kipp Ascend Primary. He has worked with the University of Kentucky dance team, the Minnesota Vikings Cheerleaders, and countless other teams around the country. Daniel has been a USASF Dance Worlds panel judge for 8+ years.

Isabella Limosnero grew up on Ohlone land known as Gilroy, CA. They trained at the Alonzo King Lines Training Program under the direction of Karah Abiog from. In the program, they had the privilege to perform work by Sidra Bell, Roderick George, Robert Moses, Carmen Rozestranen, Alex Ketley, Christian Burns, and David Harvey. Limosnero also had the pleasure of working with James Graham Dance Theater on their evening length work, The Grass is Sleeping. Since their time in the Bay Area, they have relocated to Bodéwadmiakiwen (Potawatomi); Kiikaapoi (Kickapoo); Myaamia; Očhéthi Šakówiŋ; and Peoria land, known as Chicago, IL and are currently based out of the Chicagoland area. They have presented their own work with LittleFire Artist Collective, and have worked with Helen Lee/ Momentum Sensorium, House of Dov, Melinda Meyers in collaboration with Lucky Plush Productions, Project Bound and more.

Maxine Patronik (she/her) is based in Chicago, IL. She is a founding member and resident artist with UneARTh Arts Society and works as a grants manager and writer. She loves to spend time outside and move her body, with any combination of the two being ideal. You can find her in her community garden, by or in the lake depending on the season, reading, walking her dog, or creating something in the kitchen. Maxine holds a BFA degree in Dance from Dominican University of CA/LINES Ballet and a Certificate in Grant Writing from DePaul University.

Sara Schroerlucke (she/her) is an interdisciplinary artist, and is interested in creating work that is accessible for all. She is based in Kansas City, and is the founder and Executive Director of UneARTh Arts Society. She has written and produced multi-media shows that are dedicated to telling tales about the earth and of healing, including Language of Waves. When she is not dancing, you can find Sara running her two pups through the woods, working on creative projects around her home, and/or listening to vinyl. Sara holds a BFA in Dance Performance from the University of California, Irvine.

Marina Hope currently teaches and dances in Chicago. Their work is inspired by the interconnection between healing, liberation, movement, and community. She received a B.A. in Spanish and Dance Studies from Knox College and plans to continue exploring various forms of movement in Chicago as well as cultivating community with people passionate about the earth and liberation of all people. They hope to keep learning how to move through the world with compassion and love while actively resisting colonial structures and systems.

Keaton Leier is a soloist with the National Ballet of Canada and a co-founder of Artists Climate Collective. He has been dancing professionally as a ballet dancer throughout America and Canada, all the while shining light on the climate crisis and how the arts can be used to combat the crisis and motivate change. His dedication to the environmental movement and advocacy for sustainability are what drive him. The connection between his passion for art and love for nature keep him inspired to continue pushing for change!

Charlotte Nash (she/her) is Filapina-American from Sammamish, Washington. She is currently a professional artist, dancing with Oregon Ballet Theatre. Charlotte completed her formal artistic training with the Pacific Northwest Ballet School, San Francisco Ballet School, and the Houston Ballet Academy. In 2023, she received her BS in health sciences (summa cum laude) from the Ohio State University. Charlotte is also the co-founder of Artists Climate Collective, an initiative dedicated to using the arts as a vessel to fight against the causes of climate change. She is particularly interested in the unique power art has to change people’s perspective and give them space to develop strong emotions on issues like climate change. Charlotte currently resides in the Portland Metro area which sits on the ancestral lands of many indigenous tribes including the Multnomah, Wasco, Cowlitz, Kathlamet, Clackamas, Bands of Chinook, Tualatin Kalapuya, Molalla, and many other tribes who made their home in the Columbia River Gorge.

Madeline Bez is currently working as a freelance dancer based out of New York City. When she was 18 she climbed Mount Kilimanjaro, and seeing the quickly melting glaciers brought her a new awareness and urgency about the importance of climate change. Though she has followed the path to become a professional ballet dancer, the climate crisis has always remained important to her. She is looking forward to, through the ACC, having a greater impact on helping those most affected by climate change and trying to reverse its effects.

Ayanna London is a multi-media artist, performer, and educator. She is a Chicago native who, along with her husband, facilitates meditations, teaches herbalism and mycology, leads plant walks, teaches yoga and breathwork, facilitates music circles, teaches dance class, homeschools their children, establishes home gardens, and provides doula care for mothers. Ayanna also is a company member with Muntu Dance Theatre.

Eric Luu (he/him) is a farm steward at Zumwalt Acres. He brings a passion for botany and education and is inspired to cultivate everyone's ecological responsibility. He combines experience growing edible and native plants for over 10 years in his home garden, interning with the urban agriculture program at Loyola University Chicago, and educating in schools and community spaces with The Organic Gardener. He apprenticed at Zumwalt Acres in the summer and fall of 2021 and returns as a farm manager, excited to continue co-creating perennial systems on the land.

Acacia Berg (she/they) was raised by the hills, valleys, and maples of Driftless Wisconsin, unceded land of oθaakiiwaki‧hina‧ki, Meškwahki·aša·hina, Myaamia, Očhéthi Šakówiŋ, and Hoocak communities. She brings her environmental studies and research in sustainable agriculture to her work at Zumwalt Acres, as well as experience as a farm/school garden educator and organic farmer at various scales. In living and farming in community at Zumwalt Acres, Acacia finds deep fulfillment and home in the intersection of regenerative practice, renewal Judaism, and queerness. She finds expression through plant and animal care, somatic dance, painting, forest explorations, and other embodied movements.

Isabel Menon (she/her) is a recent Yale grad and a lifelong mover! She dances around her house, in musicals, with trees, at dinner, on subways, wherever. Her most recent creative work, “Body as Memoir,” was presented as a senior thesis in choreography: a movement research piece presented in eight parts, interrogating embodied memory. She’s beyond excited to be a part of Landing this year and can’t wait to move with you all!

Patricia Mathu is a graduate student interested in people, plants, and place. She mostly hangs around Zumwalt Acres these days, and is excited to share this space with you all!