We began by serving nettle tea. With fifth grade students, we created a large wooden sign that proudly appropriates Gatorade branding. We made visual artworks that responded to the prompt: “If a nettle plant made a protest sign, what would it say?” We hosted a table at Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. School Celebration Day at Dr. Martin Luther King Jr School in NE Portland and offered a collaging workshop inspired by shapes of nettle leaves. Further workshops facilitated song and spoken word and poetry writing about and for the nettle plant and making soda from dried nettle leaves inside a school classroom. We canned the soda with Mike Lockwood of Duality Brewing, and chose student artworks and names for the can labels. We made placemats featuring names for the nettle plant in languages spoken by the student body and new original names created by the students. DJ and composer DJ Tikka Masala was invited to collaborate on an original audio piece about nettle. Artist Bex Copper made portraits with the students, the sign, and the cans on the playground at the school. We interviewed Ms Johnson about her experience as a collaborator on the project. We also interviewed Nellie Scott, director of the Corita Art Center in Los Angeles about Sister Corita Kent and her history with pop art as a strategy to reach a public with her messages of justice and peace. The project’s first big culminating moment is an interactive installation in the library of the elementary school for The Gatherade Stand 01. This installation is presented as part of Assembly 2022, an annual social practice art conference, through KSMoCA, a contemporary art museum. Thank you nettle.