eco-conspiracies
CON: with
SPIRE: to Breathe
The idea of eco-conspiracies grows from the idea that we breathe together with plants. As the foundation of ecological webs, native and bioregional appropriate plants serve to restore habitats, especially through the tight urban spaces where most of us dwell. Opening space for contemplative practice, we invite visitors to slow down and breathe with surrounding plants in our spheres, practice creative acts of sci/art conservation, and share seeds and their stories with neighbors to pass regenerative acts forward.
Using Art to Bring Wildlife Conservation Closer to Home
Broadening perceptions of ‘home’ to include outdoors spheres around our lived-in structures, we encourage deepened relationships with non-human species who dwell with us in the urban corridors we call home, thinking of ways we may increase connectivity across Denver’s communities.
EXHIBITION
DATES: March 1 – May 31, 2026
An immersive installation sharing stories of creative restoration work by practitioners within the Creature Conserve community interspersed with local artists’ multi-disciplinary approaches of re-inhabiting conservation.
2026 RESIDENCY Program: Re-Inhabiting Conservation
2026 Application DEADLINE: February 21 for spring sessions (March through June)

THANK YOU to the HABITAT Library for an engaging pop-up in 2025. A handful of works from Nature Heals are still on display in the GALLERIES to support the World Central Kitchen’s hunger relief in Gaza:

REVIEW: New Art Space Galleries on Downing Cultivates Community
Habitat Library has also found a temporary home in the space.
Come see it at an October 5 open house. By Kristen Fiore – WESTWORD

TAOS distillery
– Restorative Retreats – Community Workshops – Sci/Art Residencies –
Acequia
El Agua es la Vida – Water is Life
TAOS | New Mexico
The TAOS Distillery sits on Los Lovatos ditch, the oldest of 75 active Acequias in the Taos Valley. Today it is used as a platform that bridges art & science to engage discourse around water issues in arid steppe ecologies.
Tetouan | Morocco
Tracing origins of Acequias: the Rif
Residency at Green Olive Arts
Blanca | Spain
Investigations of Acequias installed in this valley by Andalusian settlers who arrived on the Iberian Peninsula in the 9th century. The ‘huerta’ was their last stronghold before being pushed back into Morocco.
Residency at AADK
FIELDWORKS
SEED :: den
Stiles African American Heritage Gardens
Mulatamicuwon | MAINE
SEED | Haiti

