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When the River Becomes a Cloud / Cuando el río se transforma en nube

About

When the River Becomes a Cloud / Cuando el río se transforma en nube is a multi-year, interdisciplinary public artwork co-created by DeepTime Collective (Amanda Leigh Evans and Tia Kramer) and students, teachers, and staff at Prescott School District (PSD), a preK-12 public school in rural Eastern Washington. Together, we are building a collaborative, multi-media, permanent public artwork in the form of a river that winds throughout the school’s indoor and outdoor campus. The project utilizes artistic and scientific inquiry to examine local ecology and watersheds, industrial agricultural systems, and the movement of people, water, animals, and agricultural goods across geopolitical borders.

Since its inception, RiverCloud has been, and continues to be, almost entirely funded by external grants we have written to support the project. These grants are typically either awarded to a nonprofit partner or directly to artists. We are not employees of Prescott School District—we are a partner project working within the school to facilitate the creation of student-led artwork. The school has generously given us a classroom, which has become our studio/workspace to host weekly open studio activities with students and stage in-progress projects.

Project logo designed by first grade students in the spring 2022