Welcome to the Lichen Museum | Guided walk with A. Laurie Palmer

This lichen walk casts the entire world as an open air museum in which lichens can be found practically everywhere, including in the sidewalks beneath our feet. With lenses in hand, we dive into the tiny, intensive world of these amazing symbiotic organisms, paying attention to their startling radical qualities as well as their beautiful and fascinating morphologies and how they come to be. Lichens have much to offer humans as models for habits of living in a time of great confusion and distress. Collaborative, inventive, hardy, in it for the long-haul, resistant to the pressures of the market, and creatively adapting to changing climactic conditions, they also teach us to recognize vulnerability and difference as we bend down with curiosity to engage with their very different worlds. This is led by an artist and is not a walk that will focus on lichen identification, but anyone with that expertise is welcome to join and share your knowledge.

A. Laurie Palmer is an artist and writer living in California. She published The Lichen Museum in 2023, and has been leading lichen walks throughout the U.S. since 2014. This will be the first walk she has offered in Northern Ireland since interviewing lichenologists here in 2015.

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