Join us on Saturday July 9th at 68 Mountain Rest Rd. for a workshop based on the work by Alejandro Chellet in our outdoor exhibition, Owning Earth.
The Hickster Cob Oven Building Workshop is a one-day, hands-on natural building workshop with artist and permaculturist Alejandro Chellet. Learn to make a functional cob oven, a device that brings people together around food and community. Registration is $35 per person, please register below.
*This workshop will lead to a community event on July 30th where folks are welcomed to gather and use the oven that is build to cook & enjoy a meal together. Please see full details here: https://www.unisonarts.org/events/harvesting-community-event
A message from the artist:
“Natural building is a very important process that allows us to understand human development. This open invitation is for anyone interested in taking part in an active learning experience and sharing the process of building a cooking device, a functional cob oven made with clay, a pristine natural element transformed with our bodies and physical input.”
About Alejandro Chellet:
Alejandro Chellet is a Mexican multidisciplinary artist, independent curator and permaculture designer based between Mexico City, New York and the Hudson Valley. In his art he addresses the misplaced core principles of coexistence, the loss of connection with Nature and the political and environmental context of urban societies. His artwork ranges from social practice to site specific installations, urban interventions and performances using permaculture, artivism, improvisation, somatic movement, politics, altruism and shamanism. His artwork has been shown at festivals, museums and galleries in Europe, Asia, North, Central and South America. In 2014 with Grace Exhibition Space he started the design and development of an ongoing art and permaculture summer residency program in Rosendale, NY. In 2015 he ventured into directing Casa Viva Gallery, an artist-run space for contemporary art in Mexico City that has shown more than a hundred artists. In February 2020 he launched Artists in Action, a new and broad residency program at the community space Huerto Roma Verde in Mexico City.