Tag: Rocky Mountain Native Plants
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eco-conspiracies: Oereishi Aeoma
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…
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eco-conspiracies
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…
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Re-inhabiting Conservation with Creature Conserve

The GALLERIES on DOWNING serves as a dynamic arts space where we envision how we may ‘Re-Inhabit’ Conservation through the first half of 2026. In collaboration with Creature Conserve, we offer a series of creative residencies and workshops to invite people to deepen their relationships with the natural world around us.
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TAOS distillery: Supporting Daring Girls

Housed in an historic adobe that contained a bootleg operation during prohibition, the TAOS distillery is a creative retreat space, now dedicated to deepening understanding of mountain habitats and exploring ways we may weave traditional water systems into restorative practices. Centered around the traditional water sharing practice known as Acequias, our community-based work is made…
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Imprints of Place & Plants
The GALLERIES on DOWNING is pleased to present an eco-arts exhibition by Claire Cote. Imprints of Place & Plants is an exhibition of mixed-media works by Northern New Mexico artist, Claire Coté. The exhibition recognizes our kinship with Nature and celebrates our public lands and waters, yards and gardens and their more-than-human inhabitants. The solo…
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TAOS distillery: Tour

The TAOS Distillery is a restorative place that hosts encounters with the landscape in ways that amplify the myriad cultural influences that have helped shape it. We continue to pour love into this historic Adobe as three generations of our family renovated and expanded the home, and tended the surrounding gardens. It has been called…
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STILES – Honoring Grace
Culmination of the first stage of the Stiles African American Heritage Gardens, written in memorium at Grace’s passing.
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Congress Park News Autumn Garden Column: SOIL
Summer Garden column by Lee Lee for the Congress Park News: Cultivating the heavy CLAY soils of Denver
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TAOS Distillery: Transforming Thistle
Follow the transformation of thistle into tea & artwork by Swiss based artist, Daniela Jules Garza during a Creature Conserve supported residency at the TAOS distillery in New Mexico
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Congress Park News Summer Garden Column: CLAY
Summer Garden column by Lee Lee for the Congress Park News: Cultivating the heavy CLAY soils of Denver
