Queer
Ecology
Lab
Queer Ecology Lab is a workshop series organized and hosted by Studio For Now for Detroit-area queer artists to access methods, materials and connections that facilitate growth within their own practices in service of ecological and creative flourishing.
8.2.2025
Wahnabezee Water Salon
An Ephemeral Cafe on the shores of Belle Isle with Kirby Shoote
Created in collaboration with With Kirby Shoote and Grace Millard, Water Salon was a laid back affair meant to encourage conversations with the water and each other.
Let the rocks be your table, let the river be your cooler. Bring a chair or blanket if you like.
2.8.2025
Building with Straw with Professor Joseph Trumpey, Aziza K.S. Knight, Nyame Adama Selassie and Moderated by Elle Gover
Building with Straw, a discussion about the benefits, challenges, and transformative potential of building with natural materials like straw and mud. In this session, we’ll explore the history of natural building and its potential revolutionary impact on housing, climate resilience, and community empowerment.
11.17.2024
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Mino Bimaadiziwin:
The Good Life in Detroit with Hadassah GreenSky
Now, and always, we’re reminded that our work begins with tending to the place we live and the human and non-human neighbors we live among. Join artist Hadassah GreenSky (Little Traverse Bay Band Citizen and resident of occupied Detroit / Waawiyaatanong) to learn about the Anishinaabe concept of Mino Bimaadiziwin, or the Good Life, its influence on the past, attentiveness to the current moment, and reverence for the world and future generations.
10.29.2024
Tincture-Making with Ash Arder and Corina Fadel
A solar powered workshop exploring the healing properties of plants and music at Disco Gardens in Detroit. Join multidisciplinary artists, educators and healers Ash Arder and Corina Fadelas they guide us in weaving together the medicine and magic of plants and music with the technology of tinctures made from locally harvested plants.
10.19.2024
Grief walk with Got Grief House
Join Got Grief House on Belle Isle for a grief walk. We'll spend this time honoring our collective grief by walking alongside the river and spending quiet time in nature. We will mostly walk in silence with optional opportunities to share after the walk.
5.5.2024
Intro to Quilting with Saylem Celeste
Join us for our second Queer Ecology Lab workshop, Intro To Quilting Workshop with saylem mississippi celeste and Ellen Rutt. In this four hour event participants will learn the revolutionary social practice of quilting. We will discuss several place-based traditions related to quilting, align our quilting with its roots in transformative justice, and honor the quilting tradition within your own practice and lineage.
5.4.2024
Natural Dye Workshop with Kayla Powers
Explore place-based art and seasonal color through the traditional processes of foraging and dyeing. In this four hour Natural Dye Workshop, participants will explore place-based art and seasonal color through the traditional processes of foraging and dyeing. Together, we will ethically and sustainably collect plants, prepare cotton, linen, and hemp fabric for dyeing, and bond color to cloth.
Studio For Now hosts seasonal life drawing classes, all are welcome no experience needed.
During each three hour drawing session, we will have two models providing us with live poses. The time will be organized into three segments: a warm-up period for quick gesture sketches, then several 10-minute poses, and finally an hour-long pose.
