Bodacious Botanicals

Name: Bodacious Botanicals
Start: 2025-11-18T19:00:00-08:00
Location: 1912 Center (Lecompte Auditorium), 412 E 3rd St, Moscow, Idaho

Schedule

Tue, 18 Nov, 2025 at 07:00 pm

UTC-08:00

Location

1912 Center (Lecompte Auditorium), 412 E 3rd St, Moscow, Idaho | Moscow, ID

Jolie Kaytes is a professor of landscape architecture at Washington State University. Her work explores how landscapes are represented and contemplates the importance of place. She has written about the parallels between drawing and science; composed poetry about geology; curated exhibits that invite citizens to imagine potential futures for their landscapes; and produced essays that consider the tangible and invisible marks people make in places. She is a National Endowment for the Humanities grant recipient and her writing and images have appeared in numerous publications.
Bodacious Botanicals explores how embracing so-called "invasive" vegetation fosters novel ways of being in, being with, and befriending the world. With hopeful curiosity and playful introspection, the presentation will invite the audience to ponder the insidious way words can divide us from other lifeforms and consider how seeing invasive plants as kin complicates and invigorates our understandings of belonging and home.