A tree covered in handwritten wishes, giant chalkboards filled with complaints and colorful textiles woven through tree branches are among the works festivalgoers will find scattered throughout Irvine’s Great Park this weekend.
Daisy Chain Fields isn’t limiting its celebration of women artists to its two music stages. The inaugural festival on Saturday, Aug. 29, will feature nine art installations and exhibitions from women working across conceptual art, sculpture, textiles and interactive media.
The collection brings together several generations of artists, from Yoko Ono and feminist art collective Guerrilla Girls to contemporary artists creating new, site-specific pieces for the festival. Many of the works are also meant to be experienced rather than simply viewed, inviting festivalgoers to write, reflect, listen and even leave a little piece of themselves behind.
Here’s a look at the artists and installations to keep an eye out for while exploring Daisy Chain Fields.
Ariel Zana: “I always knew the words,” 2026
Los Angeles-based multidisciplinary artist and producer Ariel Zana turns the mirror — an object often associated with examining our outward appearance — into a place for looking inward.
Her interactive installation invites visitors to respond to prompts written on mirrors, with each answer becoming part of a larger conversation between strangers. Zana first debuted the project, titled “I Always Knew the Words, I Just Didn’t Know How to Say Them,” in Los Angeles’ Little Ethiopia neighborhood in February.
Guerrilla Girls: “The Art of Behaving Badly”
Got a complaint? The Guerrilla Girls want to hear it.
The anonymous feminist art collective has spent more than four decades calling attention to sexism, racism and inequality in the art world and beyond, often using bold graphics, humor and statistics to get its point across. Since forming in New York in 1985, its members have famously kept their identities hidden behind gorilla masks while adopting pseudonyms honoring deceased women artists.
Astria Suparak: “Grrrl Germs: Punk Feminism Goes Viral, 1991–2026”
Riot Grrrl’s influence stretches far beyond the punk clubs and handmade zines where the feminist movement took shape in the early 1990s. Curated by artist and curator Astria Suparak, “Grrrl Germs: Punk Feminism Goes Viral, 1991–2026” traces 35 years of Riot Grrrl and the DIY communities it inspired around the world.
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The exhibition features five listening areas with music created or influenced by Riot Grrrl bands, along with handmade zines, flyers and a collaborative map charting Riot Grrrl chapters, Ladyfest gatherings and related movements.
Jenny Holzer: “IN A DREAM…,” 2026
Jenny Holzer has spent decades putting words in unexpected places. The Ohio-born conceptual artist is best known for her text-based works that have appeared on billboards, electronic signs, buildings and through large-scale light projections. Her pieces frequently use short phrases and statements to confront ideas surrounding power, violence, trauma, knowledge and hope.
Jordan Ann Craig: “To Daisy, My Girl,” 2026
Northern Cheyenne artist Jordan Ann Craig will bring a new site-specific work to Daisy Chain Fields that draws from Cheyenne material culture and carries a fitting name.
“To Daisy, My Girl” is inspired by a Cheyenne beaded bag, pairing horizontal pink stripes with a repeating yellow Cheyenne motif. The patterns also evoke the brightness of blooming daisies. Craig, who is known for large-scale paintings and prints that bring Indigenous traditions into play with contemporary elements, gave the work its title as a tribute to her late dog, Daisy.
Kelly Wall: “Fata Morgana (Lost & Found),” 2026
Festivalgoers feeling a little lost may find something to take with them at Kelly Wall’s installation.
The Los Angeles sculptor’s “Fata Morgana (Lost & Found)” is an interactive penny press that plays with the idea of searching for direction. Visitors are invited to consider what it means to feel lost, what signs and symbols they look toward for guidance and what happens when those objects are given meaning.
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Kelsey Merreck Wagner: “Arachne,” 2026
Some of the art at Daisy Chain Fields will be overhead. Textile artist, educator and anthropologist Kelsey Merreck Wagner’s “Arachne” will stretch colorful woven panels between tree branches, incorporating the work into the landscape around it.
Wagner describes her practice as “eco-artivism,” combining art and activism through work focused on sustainability, environmental justice and the relationship between people and their surroundings.
Rachel Hayes: “Sky by Day, Sky by Night,” 2025
Rachel Hayes’ “Sky by Day, Sky by Night” is one installation that may look completely different depending on when festivalgoers encounter it. Six textile panels sewn by the Tulsa-based artist will stretch overhead, framing portions of the sky in large blocks of fabric and color. During the day, sunlight brings out the saturated colors of the panels. As the light changes into the evening, the fabric becomes more translucent and illuminated by its surroundings.
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Yoko Ono: “Wish Tree,” 1996
Festivalgoers can leave a wish behind before heading to their next set. Yoko Ono’s “Wish Tree” is an interactive work that asks participants to write a wish on a paper tag and attach it to the branches of a tree. As more people participate, the tree gradually fills with individual messages that become part of a larger collective work.
First created in 1996, “Wish Tree” reflects a recurring idea in Ono’s decades-long conceptual art practice: the audience isn’t always there just to look. Participation is what completes the piece.