We are so excited to announce our first ever art exhibition showcasing artwork by our amazing Community Studio artists! The exhibition will take place at the Empower Youth Ranch during Empower Youth’s Ribbon Cutting event! Details are as follows:

When: October 27, 2017 from 3:30 pm – 8 pm (Empower Youth’s festivities conclude at 7 pm, but the exhibition will be open to the public until 8 pm)

Where: The EY Ranch, 2800 State Route 125, Bethel, OH 45106

What: Come out to support the volunteers, donors, and friends of Empower Youth who have helped transform the ranch over the past six months into a thriving center for community health and nourishment. The event is to celebrate the completion of Peachie’s Place, Empower Youth’s new packing facility for their weekly food bags, and tours of the ranch’s completed and in-progress facilities will take place throughout the evening. Artwork from Community Studios will be displayed inside Peachie’s Place and throughout the Barn Studio, and Francesca and Hillary will be present to answer questions and talk about their future plans for SOIL SERIES: A Social Drawing

We are also thrilled to announce our partnership with Pneuma Coffee of The 86 Coffee Bar and Concert Venue in Cincinnati for this event, who will generously provide specialty coffee drinks throughout the evening. There will also be a DJ and a silent auction to benefit SOIL SERIES and Empower Youth programming! Stay tuned for more information about this fun and family-friendly event!

Empower Youth ribbon cutting ceremony

** If you would like to contribute something to the Silent Auction, please contact Francesca Fiore at soilseriesbethel@gmail.com. Thank you for your support!**

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SOIL SERIES: A Social Drawing was a process of serial socially engaged research facilitated by artists Francesca Fiore and Hillary Wagner in collaboration with the rural community of Bethel in Appalachian Ohio. From 2017 to 2019 SOIL SERIES took many forms including conversations, public programs, projects, and collective imagining. A drawing in the most expansive sense, SOIL SERIES was an exercise in relational mark-making. By creating the conditions for new conversations and possibilities around artmaking, the public, and social imagination, SOIL SERIES proposed social drawing as the generative engine for community-initiated action.

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