In the last year, Susan Robb has filled a park with a solar-powered
field of enormous, black, rippling worms made of garbage bags
(Toobs) and devised a plan to provide Alaskan polar bears with a raft made of oil barrels (which won’t melt as the globe warms).
Now, the first Stranger Genius Award winner in visual art has a gallery
show of new photography and installations—including a
campfire powered by the shit of her dealer, Scott Lawrimore.
(Lawrimore Project, 831 Airport Way S, 501-1231. 10
am­–5:30 pm, free.)

Jen Graves (The Stranger’s former arts critic) mostly writes about things you approach with your eyeballs. But she’s also a history nerd interested in anything that needs more talking about, from male...