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Story on Holly Greenberg, local artist and founder of the Bird Collisions in the Anthropocene project, for The Daily Northwestern’s multimedia features project, Open for Business.
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Holly Greenberg founded the Bird Collisions in the Anthropocene art project in 2023. She relocated the project from Syracuse, New York to Evanston in fall 2023. Now, her studio sits on Greenleaf Street in the West Village business district.
The project aims to create replicas of the 10,836 birds killed by window strikes in Chicago in 2023. The birds are made through crowdsourcing, and the project has produced between 3,000 and 4,000 birds as of May 2025.
Each bird is made from donated fabric, such as used bed sheets and pillow stuffing.
Greenberg says people can implement easy fixes to prevent window strikes. Some methods she suggests are making Acopian Birdsavers, using window collision tape or marking windows with a paint pen.
The windows of the store feature art created by artist Taro Takizawa. The piece, created using hand-cut vinyl, also serves as a bird collision prevention method.
Greenberg says she loves her studio but will have to move into a bigger space once they move on to the next step of the project, which she predicts will happen in two years.
Each bird replica features a label that not only displays the deceased bird’s species name and when it died, but also the location and date the replica was created. Some information about the bird’s artist is also shown, such as their name and where they are from.
After each bird is created, Greenberg types out the information into a digital database and writes it down in a ledger.
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