Johanna O'Tigham with her art works on display for the Rural Wisconsin Artists show at the Prairie du Chien Memorial Library. • Start here: t.me/DriftlessIPR/6 • Browse Johanna's art: t.me/EverageJoFreshArtGalley • More: t.me/DriftlessIPR/9 • t.me/DriftlessIPR/8

Artists' works on display for the Rural Wisconsin Artists show at the Prairie du Chien Memorial Library. • Start here: t.me/DriftlessIPR/6 • More: t.me/DriftlessIPR/10 • t.me/DriftlessIPR/9

"Storm Dragon," acrylic on pressboard by Johanna O'Tigham (featured November 2023 at the Rural Wisconsin Artists gallery show at the Prairie du Chien Memorial Library).

Rural Wisconsin Artists' non-profit gallery show featuring multiple regional artists is at the Prairie du Chien public library through the month of November 2023.

One artist prominent in this project is Driftless Intuitive Public Radio’s very own Johanna O’Tigham, also known as Everage Jo (t.me/EverageJoFreshArtGalley).

The mission of Rural Wisconsin Artists (RWA) is to support and promote artists of many modalities who reside in rural Wisconsin counties and who may have limited access to resources critical in making their art visible to others or to support their creative endeavors.

RWA invites the public to their first gallery show at the Prairie du Chien Memorial Public Library. This show introduces five local artists and runs thru November 2023. More gallery shows are in the works for locations around Southwest Wisconsin.

A reception will be held on November 13th for local artists exhibiting their work this month.

This reception is open to the public and will be held from 4pm to 6pm. To support sensitive artists and community members, please refrain from wearing perfumes, colognes, or other fragrances. Refreshments will be available, and the public is encouraged to come and meet the five featured artists.

For more information about this reception or about Rural Wisconsin Artists please email: ruralwiscart@gmail.com or phone 608-604-9510.

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Salem outside in the winter sunshine @driftlessIPR • photo by @johannabotanica • t.me/templagata/8

More from RWA!

Here’s a virtual visit to the Rural Wisconsin Artists’ reception for our second collective show.

There was a great turnout for the event at Timber Lane coffeehouse in Boscobel on Feb 10, 2024.

@DriftlessIPR maeven Johanna O’Tea contributed a handful of her Fresh Art Peaces, alongside a number of folks new to RWA. There were portraits, abstracts, and a number of larger peaces featured.

This show has ended so please tuned for the next one coming up this spring… maybe in Hillsboro this time!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?si=2369WtX0MDnuGlSf&fbclid=IwAR2y6jzgdebjqvXPhA8fz9Sx0A0Rqk729vPeSThIQQTHmlfpSi6PSIhMxus&v=zQu3wAsEc9I&feature=youtu.be

RWA is on Facebook! You can see what we are up to and check out lots of gorgeous art. Scroll or search for our wish list, event info, and profiles on Johanna 😘 and some of our other amazing artists!

https://m.facebook.com/people/Rural-Wisconsin-Artists/61553188172324/

Learn how to identify the 12 Wisconsin frog calls. 

Expect to practice the calls as a group at our "Call of the Frog" program Tuesday, March 19th, at 3:45 pm at McIntosh Memorial Library, Viroqua, WI.

Ben Johnston, Valley Stewardship Network Habitat Specialist, will lead the presentation. All ages are welcome. Great for families, and children are encouraged to attend.

Ben is a Wisconsin Frog and Toad Survey volunteer. He has been a promoter of Citizen Science since 2008. Information about how to be a Citizen Scientist for the Wisconsin Frog and Toad Survey will be shared.  info@valleystewardshipnetwork.org, valleystewardshipnetwork.org, 608-637-3615.

' The network I co-facilitate is organizing paid local vehicle transportation for people with sensitivities to synthetic fragrances and other common environmental contaminants.

There are many people in every location who are unable to hire transport because they have health conditions that are worsened by scented products (vehicle "freshening" products, personal products, shampoo, antiperspirants, creams, cologne, clothes softener), cleaning products, laundry detergents, paints, petrochemicals, cigarette smoke, pesticides, solvents, and molds, for instance.

If you're looking for a market for transportation services that is unserved, often unnoticed, and in particular demand, there are more and more people who have to avoid these substances in order to be strong and healthy — but there are typically no knowledgeable transportation services available for them to hire. There's a lot of gratitude being expressed for our work to address this challenge.

Any type of vehicle can serve for this kind of service, if the driver understands how to keep it as free as possible from contaminants that cause issues for sensitive passengers and can communicate forthrightly on the subject.

We're glad to teach anyone who wants to earn money providing this kind of transportation.

If you're knowledgeable about environmental sensitivities or if you'd like to learn more, please reach out to me in private message or by commenting here. I'm making a list of drivers in the area who want to participate in projects as funding comes in. '

—published 14 March 2024 in a private jitney service group • art credits: t.me/IntuitiveGallery/322 • follow along: www.IntuitivePublicRadio.network/subscribe

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Here is a review of some of the ways we often create together in the Intuitive Network:

1. We dialogue in community spaces until we identify a particular project we'd like to work on together. Then we take it to a dedicated space, often a private chat on Telegram messenger. (This chat, t.me/CommunityIPR, is a great space for ongoing dialogue to start to find community members who want to collaborate in particular ways.)

2. We produce collaborative media to raise important conversational points where others can join us and help us invite more others into our conversations. We connect these media projects to outreach so that we have the increasing strength of speaking and expressing ourselves collectively. We use this approach especially to help ourselves and one another, amidst challenging situations, find and create access to resourcing that can most effectively meet our real needs.

3. We practice awareness of our own bodies' signals to proceed wisely, for safety, as we're getting to know one another. As we help one another increasingly connect with physical and vocational recovery resources, we also practice building group-coordinated income generating platforms. Then, we gradually increase our resourcing for building our own individual income generating platforms, supported by group activities and interconnected webs of related projects.

We can talk about any subject or type of project, as long as we practice care and respect toward one another and are very patient with the challenges all are navigating on a day-to-day basis.

We always remember that everyone is dealing with a very unique and unknown kind of situation, and that there is a great mystery of who we are to one another even when we feel excited and activated by finding one another on similar frequencies.

We tend to the well-being of our individual bodies first always, listening very closely to what our bodies need; we anchor there, then discover how we can bridge with one another; we improve our attuned presencing; and strengthen our collaborative fluency.

I do my best to be available for questions and to provide assistance where I can; and other co-facilitators and community members (who may have a personal account here on Telegram that is visible, or may show up anonymously as a chat heading as in this message here) like to help out wherever they can.

When network spaces are very quiet, we can plan new threads and future engagements for those spaces.

There are many, many public channels and public chats in the Intuitive Network on Telegram, and many private chats too that are either created or tended as part of our efforts here together.

Our space at t.me/IntuitiveCommunity and the attached discussion chat intermittently publishes streams of invitations to a wide variety of different Intuitive Network spaces that all are welcome to explore, learn about, collaborate with, and support.

Always follow, re-share, and comment frequently at https://www.IntuitivePublicRadio.network/subscribe on Substack to increase the public media conversations around this work. This helps us increase the resourcing we can flow into the network and then to specific group projects.

Respond here or reach out to me directly at t.me/maxmorris if I can be helpful to you in any way.

Love and blessings,

Megan Max Mo

How do you recognize yourself as a viable volunteer collaborator in or with the Intuitive Public Radio Network?

You have skills of any kind that it strengthens you to share with others.

You have resources of any kind, practical, economic, financial, or otherwise, that it strengthens you to share with others.

You feel moved and excited to discover opportunities to nourish and grow resourcing that preserves life and anchors respect for people and creatures who have been disregarded and disenfranchised.

Your heart expands when you encounter opportunities to work on meaningful, life-changing projects with other activated, purpose-driven collaborators.

You value what you learn from people and groups in situations of hardship you yourself may or may not have ever directly experienced.

Whether or not you are immediately in contact with people in hardship, you know that their wisdom and expertise are crucial living resources for all communities, and you want your own projects to somehow support a better world for everyone.

Is this you?

Or...

Do you want to hang out with more people like this?

Join our public chat and introduce yourself: t.me/CommunityIPR

We'd love to meet you.

Thank you for tuning in.

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Photography by Johanna O'Tigham • Frog by frog • 🔊 Driftless Community • @DriftlessIPR • South Wisconsin • Intuitive Public Radio • IPR ••• Public community chat: t.me/+AlQKyyzr5Q8wOTEx • t.me/DriftlessIPR/19

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We had a beautiful visitor here last night, and she got in the house…

Giant Luna Moth on Joha’s hand

Susan Raffo wrote,

' I was recently listening to someone explain that what we call stress is actually fear, but western thought sees fear as a weakness and so has shapeshifted the experience of fear - which is internal - to the narrative of stress - which is more about how the outside environment impacts our sense of self. It’s a kind of subtle collective override. And so I want to name my sped up heartbeat as fear: the fear of being visible to a stranger and uncertain about what might happen in our encounter. The fear of being alone when the weather turns intense. The fear of not knowing where I am going to sleep at night. The fear of giving up and disappointing people. The fear of dissociating and somehow wasting this experience. The fear of the semi trucks hurtling by a few feet from where I am walking. The fear of not having enough water, food or warmth.

The word “fear” is an old German word which first meant “danger.” It’s older root means to try, to risk. In the 1400s, the word fear started to mean a feeling of dread and reverence for God and I have no idea what to do with that. Everything about what I just wrote is a poem, a story, an arc of memories. The word terror means “great fear, dread, alarm, panic” and the word “horror” comes from an old word meaning “to bristle” and refers to the gooseflesh and hair raising that happens when we are truly frightened. And finally, the word “scare” is an old Norse word and means “timid, shy, to shrink from, to avert.” '

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