Owning Earth
Exhibiting Outdoors at 68 Mt. Rest
June 2021 - October 30th 2022
Matthew Friday & Alex Young, Solar Sallet
Curator: Tal Beery
Assistant Curator: Erin Lee Antonak
Unison Arts Sculpture Committee Members:
Matthew Friday • Sarah Warren • Eliza Evans • Michael Asbill
ABOUT “OWNING EARTH”
Owning Earth at Unison Arts is a new outdoor exhibition in the Unison Arts Sculpture Garden.
Duration: June 26, 2021 – Oct 30th, 2022
Free and Open to the Public, Dawn to Dusk Daily
The artists of Owning Earth challenge the intolerable cruelty of deeply entrenched systems of domination—over our environment, other species, and other humans--and imagine alternatives based on mutuality and reverence.
Artists: Sariah Park, Colin Lyons, Jean-Marc Superville Sovak, Brooke Singer, Christy Gast, Eliza Evans, Matthew Friday & Alex Young, Alejandro Chellet, Melinda Kiefer, Sam Spillman, Emilie Houssart, Eileen Wold, Eleanor King & Lucy Pullen, Michael Asbill & Derek Stroup, Joel Olzak, Sarah Max Beck, Robert C Beck, and how to perform an abortion (Maureen Connor, Landon Newton and Kadambari Baxi with Eugenia Manwelyan)
Owning Earth curator Tal Beery and assistant curator Erin Antonak are both nationally-known artists with longstanding connections to the Hudson Valley. Among other works, the artists in Owning Earth weaved flags created from site-specific soil profiles, laid patterns of the legendary Underground Railroad Quilt Code, erected monuments to bee democracy, and built outdoor laboratories to test radical climate solutions.
Visitors are invited to experience the exhibition at their own pace. A free self-guided audio tour can be accessed through QR codes on-site or by clicking this link.
Robert Beck, Reversible Reactions
Eileen wold, Security Dome Dew Drops
Delve Deeper. Listen to panel discussions with the artists
Donate
Help Unison support the artists doing this work! As our society evolves and heals from this last year of instability, we aim to help change the way that artists can work and thrive and the way that art is created & funded. Community support and involvement are essential to a thriving arts culture. Donate to our GoFundMe to help monetarily support the artists and their pieces in this show:
We sincerely thank you for your support! It is more important than ever for communities to come together to support working artists addressing critical issues of humanity’s continued survival.
Michael Asbill & Derek Stoup, Sacred Hearts: An Interspecies Assembly
Please consider sponsoring a piece to directly support the artists doing this work.
It is imperative that our communities support the working artists that have been isolated due to the pandemic when their work is more important than ever.
Community, Supporter, Patron, & Business Levels of sponsorships are available which include different levels of opportunities for advertising & recognition as well as private tours of the exhibit.
Contact faheem@unisonarts.org or owningearth@gmail.com for more info on how to become a sponsor.
Unison's programming is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
