BOOK & ARTS: My “Sea of Grass” Tour at Mia

As the book, "Sea of Grass," leaves readers with a new consciousness of today’s environmental struggles, the tour inspired by the book at the Mia is a reminder that anxiety about our earth’s future is nothing new.

By: Diane Meyer

Outlets: Minnesota Women's Press

Published: August 25, 2026

Words: 1,045

Last Updated: 2 weeks, 2 days ago

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Our relationship with the natural world is a story that confuses and inspires. Art has always been reflective of our deferential wonder, empathetic adoration, tumultuous fear, or even lustful greed for our earth.

Bridging art and literature to reveal a history of environmental anxieties, a tour — inspired by David Hage and Josephine Marcotty’s book Sea of Grass: The Conquest, Ruin, and Redemption of Nature on the American Prairie — at the Minneapolis Institute of …

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