THE LICHEN MUSEUM
By A. Laurie Palmer
University of Minnesota Press | 184 pages | February 2023
ISBN 978-1-5179-0867-6 | paperback | $24.95

Art after Nature Series
The Lichen Museum explores how the physiological characteristics of lichens provide a valuable template for reimagining human relations in an age of ecological and social precarity. Using this tiny organism as an emblem through which to navigate environmental and social concerns, Palmer implores us to envision alternative ways of living based on interdependence rather than individualism and competition.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
A. Laurie Palmer is an artist and professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

PRAISE FOR THE LICHEN MUSEUM
“The Lichen Museum is a deeply engaging, provocative, humorous, and moving account of why we should pay more attention to lichens. As lichens can be found anywhere, the entire surface of the earth becomes the lichen museum. A. Laurie Palmer weaves together personal anecdotes, theoretical interventions, photography, and detailed research to draw attention to how lichens can offer new ways to think through questions of relationality, life and death, and our mutual obligations to each other.” —Heather Davis, author of Plastic Matter

For more information, visit the book’s webpage: https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/the-lichen-museum