“How Do We Mark The Flood?”: A Community Gathering

Ada Lambert | December 11, 2024

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On Nov. 23, 2024, Warren Wilson College (WWC) Art and Craft Department collaborated with the Center For Working Lands and Swannatopia’s Experimental Art Club for the community art event “How Do We Mark The Flood?” The event featured multimedia art installations, created by local artists and WWC community members, that honor the lost lives and communal grief left in the wake of Hurricane Helene. The event ran five hours long, beginning at the WWC garden and gradually moving to other locations around campus throughout the five-hour-long event.

Lillian Bryth, a WWC senior on Fiber Arts crew, weaves cloth onto the piece.

Adaluna Malki, WWC senior on Holden Arts Crew, painting Marta Geilfuss’ face

Fawn Heon, WWC sophomore, plays the mountain dulcimer.

Garden Crew members making fresh apple cider.

Lelia Baruch, WWC senior on Blacksmithing Crew, giving a demonstration.

Ivy Atkins-Pearcy, WWC sophomore on Blacksmithing Crew, teaching people how to use equipment.

Students and others prepare to walk to the Pavillion while holding up the fabric attached to a deer head created by Fiber Arts crew.

Pauline Hamer-Light, WWC senior, leads the group wearing a decorated deer head.

A performer does an expressive dance at the Pavillion.

Students serve bread outside Bryson Gym before a music performance.