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05/07/2026
Come join us at Zilker Nature Preserve this May 9th to celebrate Austin preserves and the newest installment of the ROAM Museum: artist Suzanne Wyss’ What You Are Made Of.
The event kicks off at 9:00 with a volunteer cleanup, wrapping up around 10:30. Afterwards, Suzanne will be on hand to discuss the piece and her creative process; feel free to stay after to explore the preserve!
About the piece:
Using mixed media and recycled materials, Suzanne’s piece takes the viewer underground, providing an imaginative glimpse into the literal foundations of the Austin landscape. Questioning material integrity through the lens of an underground world, Suzanne explores the surprising fluidity of the ground beneath our feet, and asks us to consider the ways in which humans and geology mutually reshape one another.
About ROAM:
The ROAM Museum is a collaboration between APR and artist Juliet Whitsett, whose Really Small Museum has been bringing art to Austin parks since 2021. ROAM celebrates the unique landscapes of Austin’s nature preserves through site-responsive art, inspiring reflection, dialogue, and deeper connection with these natural spaces.
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Volunteer: Art in Action at Zilker Park Come join us at Zilker Nature Preserve this May 9th to celebrate Austin preserves and the newest installment of the ROAM Museum: artist Suzanne Wyss’ What You Are Made Of. The event kicks off at 9:00 with a volunteer cleanup, wrapping up around 10:30. Afterwards, Suzanne will be on hand to discuss...
Suzanne Wyss | What Are You Made Of, 2026
Cast Concrete, Repurposed Plastic, Wire, Staples, Guitar Strings, Cardboard, Grit
This piece imagines what a tiny piece of our Austin landscape could look like underground. As a geologically rich place, two of our unique landscape typologies are the Edwards aquifer limestone, called Karst (aka holey rocks/lucky rocks/hag stones), and the Blackland Prairie, with its long magical fibrous roots underground. How do we humans also make an appearance underground? Questioning material integrity through the lens of an underground world, Suzanne explores limestone’s ability to be shaped by fluid, in return, the limestone cleans the water, sending it downstream refreshed. She explores prairie grass roots branching endlessly and fibrously, busy with microbes in the soil transforming atmospheric carbon into stable inorganic carbon, reaching deep below the surface to deliver nutrients and find water. Humans above ground send miniscule particles into the soils that will become their own geologic wonder one day, but what are we leaving behind in our wake?. What happens when these environments mingle? Each is a filter for something, a route to be traveled through, an interaction. What are you made of?
🔲 🔲 APRIL & MAY EXHIBITION 2026, Located in Zilker Preserve, Zilker Lookout Point (30.271290, -97.778030) Austin, TX
🚙 Driving: map to the coordinates (30.2712900, -97.7780303) It’s a .1 mile journey from the entrance on Arnulfo Alonso Way along a smooth trail to the Zilker Lookout Point.
🥾Hiking: Many trails in Zilker Nature Preserve culminate at the Zilker Lookout Point!Choose your own adventure from (uphill) by plugging the coordinates or Zilker Lookout Point into your map app.
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✨ JOIN THE ART IN ACTION: EVENT on MAY 9
Celebrate Parks and artist Suzanne Wyss’ piece ‘What Are You Made Of’ at the RSM ROAM at Zilker Lookout Point.
✨ Art in Action Clean Up: 9-10:30
✨ Artist Talk: 10:30 am
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* Thank you to the cave experts who contributed time, knowledge and gear to go underground.
The Really Small Museum ROAM is a Production and was funded by Austin Parks and Recreation Land Management
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