The 2017-2019 Archive
In the summer of 2018, we held our second Community Studio session at the Empower Youth Ranch. Community Studio was a free public art program for all ages offered in partnership with Empower Youth. The program, which had its first session in the summer of 2017, offered local residents a dedicated time and site for creativity. Guided…
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Hello everyone! Francesca and Hillary here. We would like to break our recent silence by catching you up on what’s been happening with SOIL SERIES. It’s no secret – we love conversation. We spend so many hours in conversation: brainstorming, problem solving, honing ideas and ethical positions, discussing research, and sharing and working through our…
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In May, the contemporary art podcast, Bad at Sports, invited us to participate in a discussion around soil and social practice at Open Engagement 2018. Bad at Sports was founded in 2005 by Duncan MacKenzie, Richard Holland, and Amanda Browder. It now features over 20 principal collaborators and is a weekly podcast, a series of…
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by Francesca Fiore
This is the second installment of the “Francesca’s Notebook” series, which looks back at…
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by Francesca Fiore
We can’t believe it’s already April and the Community Studio Program is about to start up again…
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by Hillary Wagner
We can’t believe it’s already April and the Community Studio Program is about to start up again…
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by Francesca Fiore
We can’t believe it’s already April and the Community Studio Program is about to start up again…
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On Saturday, February 24th, we gathered at the Cincinnati Art Museum with a group of mostly Clermont County residents for a special walkthrough of Ana England‘s Kinship conducted by the artist herself. We are so grateful to Ana for her generosity in sharing her work with us. It was truly an eye-opening and inspiring day…
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We have been busy this fall! On top of our regular Community Studio programming, we began intensive research into the next phase of our project: intersecting art with agriculture in order to imagine creative solutions to food insecurity in Bethel. We have identified access to healthy food as one of the greatest urgencies facing Bethel. According to recent…
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SOIL SERIES: A Social Drawing 