Celebrating Work for Water!
A Confluence of Stewards
Thursday, October 9, 2025
6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Freshwater Office Event Space
2550 University Ave. W, Room 320N
St. Paul, MN 55114
Join us as we celebrate Minnesota Water Stewards and all the work for water over the last year! As usual, attendees can explore Steward projects and get to know others who are working to improve the health of our waters. This year will also feature an exciting keynote speaker: local artist and organizer Ricardo Levins Morales! Ricardo will talk with us about the importance of working in community and living as an ancestor today.
Space is somewhat limited, so please register below!
The event at a glance:
- Keynote speaker Ricardo Levins Morales
- Review of last year's work for water
- Chance to connect and learn from fellow water lovers
- Prize drawings for Stewards who reported their hours
- Light refreshments
Our Keynote Speaker
Ricardo Levins Morales is an artist and organizer based in Minneapolis. He uses his art as a form of political medicine to support individual and collective healing from the injuries and ongoing reality of oppression.
He was born into the anti-colonial movement in his native Puerto Rico and was drawn into activism in Chicago when his family moved there in 1967.
Ricardo left high school early and worked in various industries, and over time began to use his art as part of his movement work. This activism has included support work for the Black Panthers and Young Lords and participating in or acting in solidarity with farmers, environmental, labor, racial justice, antiwar and other struggles for peoples empowerment. He was a founding member of the Northland Poster Collective (1979-2009).
He also leads workshops on creative organizing, social justice strategy and sustainable activism, and mentors and supports organizers. The worker members of RLM Art Studio are represented by the Newspaper and Communications guild/CWA.
Ricardo’s work is widely used by grassroots movements, organizations and communities.
Left: "Be A Wetland" by Ricardo Levins Morales