Support Sophie's show, FALLOPIA

Hi everyone! Some exciting news ... I’m making a new show! FALLOPIA will run from July 17-July 19, 2025, at The Voxel in Baltimore, MD. I am so excited about this piece and extremely grateful for the wonderful team at The Voxel. I am truly touched by their support and faith in me.

Tickets are now on sale (sliding scale $0-30) HERE!

The project:

In FALLOPIA, a ‘garden’ is grown in the Voxel! Part installation, part performance, FALLOPIA is an immersive garden experience where Plants are actors and the Garden a chorus. Questioning the human campaigns for and against particular vegetal species, FALLOPIA uses The Theater to deepen our understanding of, relationship with and empathy for Plants commonly dismissed as ‘weeds’.

The plants that make up this garden are those commonly found in ditches along the highway, abandoned industrial parks, cracked tennis courts, urban ravines, vacant lots, neglected school yards, crumbling buildings.. These ruderal species are often vilified for being too good at surviving and reduced to something that must be exterminated. Another word for survival? Resilience.

Cathedral of Japanese Knotweed on Stony Run in Baltimore City (Maguire, 2024)

Preparing Japanese Knotweed to eat (found image, 2025)

FALLOPIA is an environment to experience, explore, be in and move through. What will we see, what will we hear, what will we smell when plants are on stage and in the spotlight? What secrets are revealed? What myths busted? We grow this garden to bring us all closer to plant life.

Site visit (Maguire, 2019)

GoFundMe!

I have been working hard at applying for grants and being crafty at sourcing materials where I can. To realize this work, I still need $3000.

Your generous donation will help to pay the creative team (a performer, lighting designer, stage manager, sound designer, projection artist, electrician and set builders), purchase & rent set materials, pay a photographer & videographer to document the show, and to rent grow-lights.

Lighting designer, Helen Garcia-Alton, and me getting to know the grow light systems (Chris Ashworth, 2025)

I am so happy and honored to be able to make art work in Baltimore, MD, a rich and diverse city full of inspiring artists, craftspeople, designers and organizers. While this is only my fifth year living in the city, I have felt welcome at every turn. Your donation to this project not only helps to make FALLOPIA possible, but it is an investment in Baltimore as a space for and of creativity.

Lovers in a NOLA ruderal garden (Maguire, 2024)

FALLOPIA will be a free event with suggested donations of up to $30. Your donations help to insure that everyone gets paid and that anyone who wants to come to the show can.

If you’re able, please consider donating to my campaign. If you’re unable to donate, I understand, please share this page with your friends & family, any support is greatly appreciated!

About me:

I am an artist and landscape architect living in Baltimore City. My practice focuses on storytelling, intimacy between the human & nonhuman, landscape as theater, and the meaning of resilience through whatever form feels most appropriate for the work. Mediums I enjoy include movement, writing, collage, drawing, 3d modeling, embroidery, gardening and cooking.

Confessions of an Estranged Pigeon (Mia Glanz, 2019)

I have designed and helped realize residential gardens, public parks, areas of ecological restoration, institutional campuses and public art installations in New York, New Hampshire, Vermont, Utah, California, Maryland, Washington, British Columbia, Ontario, Manitoba.

Garden party (Maguire, 2024)

My writing can be read in places such as Landscapes | Paysages, Testing Ground Journal and Scapegoat Journal; my performance and set design work has been presented throughout NYC and Vancouver, BC, at venues including Playwrights Horizons, Scotia Dance Center, Socrates Sculpture Park, Triskelion Arts and The Current Sessions; my jewelry/ adornment work has been exhibited at the Baltimore Jewelry Center; and my cooking on any table for anyone who is hungry. I am co-founder of the Pecha Kucha series at Current Space (Baltimore City) and teach at Morgan State University.

I am so excited to integrate, cross pollinate and merge my various practices into FALLOPIA.

Proposal for a dance party (Maguire, 2024)