Special Projects

Another world is blooming
we hope you enjoy our view of the petals

As individual artists and as a creative team, the artist-owners of Swan Meadow have undertaken a number of creative pursuits that require longer form explanation, discussion and appreciation.

Here you’ll find grant projects, collaborative efforts, and works in progress we’d like to show off.

Reoccurring Themes

❋ empathy & curiosity

❋ analog perspectives

❋ technology with tact

❋ honoring queer life & history

RAC ARTIST SUPPORT GRANT 2025/2026

“Who all was there?” is a collaborative project led by Mell Meadow to archive, document, and celebrate the legacy of Black & Queer history in St Louis. 


BLACK & LGBTQ+ HISTORY, St. Louis History,

Key Themes

film photography, archival drum scanning, Risograph printing, and zine-making

Mediums

collaborative zine; open studio series; gallery show

Deliverables

collaborators

Fern Meadow (Design & Risograph Printing) ; more TBA


ONGOING

Sonny Honey Press Midwest is a micro press (currently hibernating) with the focus of publishing QUEER and Midwest created/aligned/focused work that might not otherwise be published, traditionally or independently.

mcad graduate experimental interaction project

PEOPLE NEED PARKS

“People Need Parks” is a Graduate Program project by Fern Meadow exploring what role parks play in our communities, how they shape our future relationships with nature, and who has access to these spaces.