2025 Installations
Now on Display
Gallery in the Woods brings in local artists to create semi-permanent outdoor installations for a 12 month long exhibition.
2025 Artists
Julia Orquera Bianco
Julia Orquera Bianco was born in Argentina and lived in Mexico before moving to the United States in 2016. She earned a BFA from Universidad del Museo Social Argentino in 2012. In 2018 she graduated from the MFA program at Roski School of Art and Design, University of Southern California, Los Angeles. Bianco earned a Certificate on Sustainability from UCLA in 2020, was an intern in the Medicinal Plant Conservation Program at United Plant Savers in 2022, and earned a Certificate in Permaculture Design from Cincinnati Permaculture Institute in 2023.
Bianco interrogates Modern Western Culture, collective memory, and migration through the lens of a guest on the Land. Identity becomes an experience rather than a concept. Her work draws from her family and cultural heritage and from her practice with plants to craft stories where past, present, and place come together, redefining notions of belonging.
Click below to view Julia’s installation.
Zachary Collopy
Zachary Collopy is a multimedia artist. His practice grows out of a creative collaboration with the ecosystems, beings, and phenomena that animate the land in and around Dayton, Ohio. Zachary works with his non-human neighbors to create installations, interactive sculptures, and ceramic objects. These artworks use symbolic and tactile experiences to offer alternative ways of perceiving and cherishing nature in our immediate surroundings.
Click below to view Zachary’s installation.
Scarlett Hayes
Scarlett Hayes is an artist & educator residing in Cincinnati, OH. She has lived in the Ohio River Valley her whole life, making art and teaching learners of all ages. You might find her hosting classes, hiking in the woods, playing in a creek, or cycling around the city with her family.
Click below to view Scarlett’s installation.
Sarah Imran
Sarah is also a mission-driven artist and illustrator based in Cincinnati OH. Her art is grounded in gender, racial, and social justice. She is inspired by feminist movements, nature, joyful design, her Pakistani roots, and her daughter.
Sarah is also a Political Science PhD Candidate with a concentration in Feminist Comparative International Politics.
Her research interests include gender justice, feminist networks in the Global South, and decolonial feminist futures.
She serves on the organizing team of the annual Aurat March (Women’s March) in Pakistan in the capacity of a researcher, writer, and artist. You can find her at www.sarahzimran.com and @sarahzimran.
Click below to view Sarah’s installation.
The guiding principle of this year’s Gallery in the Woods program is to repurpose invasive species for installation, creating beauty and contemplation along Imago’s trails. The gallery opening in August will include a community seed cake creating activity as well as a trail walk to view installations and speak with artists.
Funding Contributed By
Past Pieces
Seasons of the Midwest
by John Humphries 2021
Trail of Contemplation
by Kateri Sparrow 2021
Transitions
by Amy Tuttle + Emily Farison
2020 – 2022
Our Space Between
by Marin Emanuel 2022
21 Creatures
by Hannah Peacock + Andy Leytze 2021
Local Support
by Mallory Feltz 2022
Reclaimed by the Beast
by Jess Thayer 2021
Earth Wish
by Julia Lipovsky 2022
Camp Washington Lath Gongshi
by Geoffrey “Skip” Cullen 2021
More Art at Imago!
In the Middle of Everything
by Marcy Petit 2025
Trails Open Dawn to Dusk
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Through our preservation of urban nature, our hands-on green workshops, and our education programs for youth, Imago is fostering an exciting, sustainable future that benefits us all.