Workshop: Bird Collisions Art Project
Date & Time
Saturday, September 19, 2026
2–4 p.m.
This event is in the past.
Tickets
General admission/Burke members:
$12 per person
Registration coming soon.
Bird Collisions in the Anthropocene is a large-scale civic engagement art project comprising over 10,000 bird replicas made by citizens of the world to raise awareness about bird building collisions. Through public workshops, participants are provided a blank bird body, assigned a specific bird that died in 2023 from window collisions in Chicago, and are led through the crafting process to create a replica.
Embracing an environmentally sustainable practice, we use donated fabric scraps that would otherwise end up in the landfill. Birds are tagged with their common and scientific name, date of death and the name and hometown of the artist. Information and materials for making home windows safer for birds are included at the workshops. The finished artwork will be a “red carpet” of birds measuring the length of a football field and exhibited across the US and Canada to raise awareness about bird safe windows and celebrate the over 300 species of birds that migrate across North America.
Participants should bring:
- fabric (ideally, something you already own!)
- scissors
- glue
Limited supplies will be provided in this workshop.
About the Instructor
Nora Lee is a PhD student in Biology at the University of Washington and a researcher affiliated with the Ornithology Collection at the Burke Museum. Her research focuses on hummingbird coloration, behavior, and evolution, with a particular interest in how birds use visual signals to communicate. Beyond her research, Nora is passionate about birds, natural history, and making science and conservation accessible to the broader community. She enjoys creating hands-on opportunities for people to engage with birds and the challenges they face in human-altered environments, and is organizing this workshop as a way to bring together art, community participation, and bird conservation.
