This summer, some cicadas will be the width of light poles and some will be the size of squirrels.
While the traditional cicada is smaller than the length of a human finger, these plaster cicadas will be impossible to miss throughout the city.
Feeling out of the loop? We'll catch you up on the Chicago news you need to know. Sign up for the weeklyCicada Parade-a, a large-scale collaborative art project organized by The Insect Asylum and Formstone Castle Collective, will be on display in the city beginning in May. The art project is made up of painted plaster cicada sculptures which will be displayed throughout the city on walls, light poles, signs and more., Illinois’ 17-year and 13-year cicada broods. Overall, this is dedicated to celebrate the large-scale brood emergence happening this summer, as this brood has not been to this scale in 221 years.
The project is free for artists of all levels. To be a part of the art project, there is an applicationThe art project began in Baltimore, Md., during the COVID-19 pandemic in spring 2020 and has since grown to a national scale. In the past, the largest number of cicadas presented in the display was 600.
Though there will only be a couple hundred of plaster cicadas, be prepared to see millions of real cicadas this summer during the
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