Opening Exhibition: What is environmental art? Is it pastoral? Is it doomsday? Can it be pop/punk/smart/funny? What is environmental art’s relationship to space and place and community?

This show asserts that to be human in the world today is to bear witness to interconnected crises, to feel the past catching up even as the present speeds toward uncertain possible futures. Our rapidly changing climate, declining biodiversity, and multiple ecocides, genocides are an interconnected polycrisis unfolding. What do these entangled violences reveal to us? When crises threaten to overwhelm, how do we find the means and resolve to respond with alternative futures?

Reduce. Reuse. Compost. Share. Swap. Sustain. Upcycle. Recycle. How does art making inspire circularity? How can wanting less gift us more? Exploring waste reduction, creative reuse, waste as a medium, regenerative technology, upcycled art, and buying less, we reimagine waste education.

What would happen if we re-centered the Matriarch? What would happen if we recentered feminine wisdom? What ecologies have gone subterranean under patriarchal rule? What ecologies have metamorphasized? Exploring the transformative potentials of intersectional ecofeminism, transfeminism, women in leadership, grandmothers, and/or maternal instinct, we respond to the question, “What now?”

A guided bird walk with Indigo Goodson-Fields

A workshop with local artist Kaden Bard Dawson exploring natural dyes, sustainable toning with found objects and more!

Monthly Community Supper Club

Inspired by the Mapuche language! “Minga” is a word that suggests a celebration and/or work done collectively and “Lemu” means the forest or in the forest!

WORKSHOP: Join artist Zaneta for “Auricular Webs”, a workshop to cultivate land listening and resounding practices with the Governors Island wildlife.

​​What connections are reclaimed through stillness, through listening, through receptivity and surrender? How does listening form incomparable somatic threads between land and body? Connections awaiting to be remembered in our quietude. 

​In this workshop participants will be guided through a series of listening and sounding exercises, attuning to the auric web of connections present on Governor’s island and processing experiences through improvisatory response in an listening-sounding-somatic exchange between body and land. 

​Join artist @quote_unquote_influencer for this super fun paper making workshop!

​Join Forest For Trees Collective in a moving performance by Paris Alexander. Reflecting on Paris’ matriarchal lineage/legacy, reading written pieces authored by their mother and grandmother, and performing to their grandmother and aunt’s music, Alexander offers us an opportunity to bear witness to their sentimental offerings of honor and reverence.

​ How Is Our Relationship With Mother Nature Reflective Of Our Relationship With Our Mothers And Our Mothers Around The World? How Can We Heal Mother Nature Through Healing Our Relationship With Our Mothers? In This Immersive Guided Meditation, We Will Come Into Balance And Harmony With Mother.