We are participating in the Cicada Parade-A 2024! We’ll keep our cicadas up as long as they look good; they are on the front of the middle window of Horsefeathers’ storefront.
Cicada Parade-a is a large-scale collaborative art project organized by The Insect Asylum and Formstone Castle Collective that was on display in and around Chicago starting in May and running through the end of summer 2024. This project celebrated the once-in-221-year re-emergence of Broods XIII and XIX, Illinois’ 17-year and 13-year cicada broods.
The periodic cicadas are re-emerging in the trillions to sing, dance, and mingle. Insect Asylum hand crafted plaster cicada sculptures for the community to decorate that will be hung all over the state to increase traffic to places of interest inspiring people to explore and connect while searching for the 18 inch cicada sculptures; creating joyful encounters that can spark transformative conversations and promote social change.
Each sculpture was hand cast in Avondale by local artists and decorated by the community. By learning about our artists we can recognize, represent, and understand how many different communities and cultures make up our diverse and special collective of Cicada Lovers. Proceeds from this project will help TIA raise funds to build a community rooftop garden advancing our mission to support, protect, and grow our community and ecosystem together!
Jim painted the “Pride” cicada; Ezra the Gold Shiny Cicada; and Jennifer the “Protection” cicada!
