Past Events › Open House

Come enjoy the work of our June artist residents! Pamela DeLaura, a visual artist from Detroit, Michigan, will share "Project Threshold." Kadi Franson, a visual artist from Berkeley, California, will display her mark-making with local wood. Briahn Kelley-Brennan, a writer from Sebastopool, California, will read from recent writing.

Enjoy a fourth of July week open house! Great art, great food, great people! Featuring the work of: Aubrey Laughlin, a poet/photographer from Talent, Oregon Rose Howse, a writer from Greensboro North Carolina Marci Vogel, a poet from Culver City, California Everest Pipkin, a writer from Pittsburg, Pennsylvania

Enjoy an evening of new work from our July residents! Erin Elder, a curate from Albuquerque, New Mexico, will give an update on her work Kristina, a poet, will read from "The Avian Kingdom"

Come enjoy the work of our August artist residents! Becky Brown, a visual artist from the Bronx, NY, will show her work in progress. Susan Mayers, a writer from Seattle Washington, will offer an oral history workshop. Emily Yamauchi, a writer from Oakland California, will read from her recent work.

Come meet our fabulous September Artist Residents, The Milagros Collective, who will share their work in  progress!

Come enjoy the work of our October residents! Peter Makela, a painter from Baltimore, Maryland, will offer an artist and lineage talk. Suzanne Rivecca, a writer from San Francisco, California, will offer a community writing workshop.  

The Rites of Land is a research framework for creatively exploring distinct places. Through physical exploration, historic and contemporary research, expeditions, reflection, writing and drawing, this framework aims to establish a methodology for processing the experience of places as a newcomer and an outsider. It prioritizes a subjective personal encounters with what is foreign or unknown but seeks to relate the complexities surrounding those sites.  Grounded by a deep concern for land and the systems that have harmed, protected or…