Planning for the FUTURE of Mildred's Lane

Mildred's Lane
YEAR OF SILVER
Fundraising Drive 2022

Mildred’s Lane is an artist residency and creative community compound celebrating its 25th year of hosting international artists. Mildred’s Lanecultivates shared experiences and interdisciplinary collaborations, pushing the limits of what art can do – collapsing the boundaries that separate life from art and inspiring each other to integrate political activism with everyday creative living.

To ensure that Mildred’s Lane continues in the future, its co-director, artist J Morgan Puett, and her co-founder, artist Mark Dion, have started the process and strategic planning needed to donate and shift the 93-acre site into a foundation.

Everything about Mildred’s Lane resists commodification. In our hyper-consumerist culture, Mark and Morgan believe in its mission: a place where the hierarchies of the outside world disappear in shared labor and collaborations on discreet landscape interventions and event-based projects.

Mildred’s Lane and its participants advocate for the environment – central to all planning for the future.

Last year, the local government ordered Mildred’s Lane to ‘cease and desist.’ They demand an upgrade to the site to meet newly passed ordinances for public gatherings and overnight accommodations. Though a lot was accomplished to meet the township's demands last summer, Mildred’s Lane hopes to make further changes to continue to house and grow projects with artists for years to come, but these changes are expensive.

Please consider a contribution to this incredibly important and special place.

Mildred's Lane announces partnership with a new fiscal sponsor – CREATIVE VISIONS – a 501 c3 EIN: 39-1902814.

Here is how to send a check to Mildred’s Lane. We are directing all donations to Creative Visions. Suggested contribution of 1000. to 5000. But any amount helps! Forward this to anyone you think might help. Thank you!

• Make sure checks are made out to Creative Visions.

• WORKSTYLES/Mildred’s Lane should be written on the memo line.

• Send checks to:

CREATIVE VISIONS
c/o Grace Breuer
1047 Ford Drive
Nipomo, CA 93444

Special gratitude goes to The Abakanowicz Arts and Culture Charitable Foundation, The Silbert Foundation, The Goldman Foundation, and every Individual generously donating to Mildred’s Lane. Thank you for all your support!

OPENING RECEPTION - DISENTANGLEMENT / RE-EMBODIMENT

JILL GOLDMAN
DISENTANGLEMENT/RE-EMBODIMENT

The Mildred Complex(ity)
37B Main Street / Narrowsburg / NY 12764

Opening reception / October 8 / 3 pm – 5 pm

Mildred's Lane and The Mildred Complex(ity) proudly present the installation Disentanglement/Re-embodiment by Los Angeles-based artist Jill Goldman.

In this new body of work—a response to two years of research into patriarchy—Goldman continues her ongoing exploration of transformative ritual and the gendered body. Developed at Mildred’s Lane during a residency in 2021, Disentanglement/Re-embodiment is an ambitious attempt to disentangle the bonds of gender-based oppression and imagine a re-embodied self, unencumbered by patriarchal power and domination. In videos, photographs and performances Goldman interrogates the intangible ways that patriarchy creates fictions of the body and then insists that these fictions are natural, essentializing socially constructed traits as biologically and divinely determined, thereby simultaneously constructing and compelling gendered realities.

While it's impossible to know if we can ever fully experience our bodies outside of the linguistic and patriarchal social institutions that not only regulate them but define them, Disentanglement/Re-embodiment challenges the viewer to take seriously the possibility of a self independent of a system based on power relations. In performances that use ropes and women's hair, music and dance, Goldman makes visible the invisible structures of patriarchy and attempts to untangle them, extricating female bodies from their insidious and subjugating webs. Goldman, a long-time activist who advocates for the rights of those marginalized by patriarchy is skilled at pragmatic resistance, fighting injustice from a position inside our political and social systems. In her art and Tantric meditation practice, however, she explores a more radical form of resistance, a resistance that is founded on an expansive consciousness that demolishes the oppressive structures the political right is so hellbent on solidifying.

The Sanskrit word Tantra derives from the verbal root tan, meaning to weave, and while Goldman attempts to unravel one fabric, she weaves another one, represented visually in videos and photographs printed on muslin in which the boundaries between the self and the world blur. From its origins in 6th century India, Tantric initiation has always been open to all genders and all social classes. With its revolutionary shapeshifting goddesses and panpsychism Tantra dissolves borders and erases binaries. By embracing this profoundly non-dualist consciousness, Goldman imagines a dematerialized liquid reality, an alchemical transformation that occurs in the world, via the body, revealing the sacred in the profane. Because this state of "oneness" entails a radical solidarity with every human, indeed, with every particle in the universe, the boundaries that separate the terrestrial from the numinous, the self from other, subject from object, collapse, and all hierarchies are razed. Patriarchy is rendered not only absurd but cosmically powerless.

-Asti Hustvedt

Jeffrey Jenkins Photography / Performers include Veronica Caudillo / Louise Hamagami / and Roxanne Steinberg / with music by Livia Reiner and Rose Reiner.

FLEA MARKET PROJECT // The Mildred Complex(ity)

The Mildred Complex(ity)

FLEA MARKET PROJECT
Everything Could Go

Opening Saturday / July 23, 2022 / 12 – 5
37 b Main Street / Narrowsburg, NY 12764

MARK DION / AMY YOES
with
MARY JANE JACOB / MERETE RØSTAD

in collaboration with the Abakanowicz Fellows:

Inés Arango / Elisa Benzo / Sophie Buchmueller / Johnny Doley / Miguel Espinoza / Ella Fainaru-Wada / Kelly Johnston / Jad El Khoury / Alice Matthews / Meghan McCray / Scott O'Brien / Vanessa Payne / Kirsten Schuck / Sarah Sekles / Katherine Skwira-Brown

A transient site for gathering and commerce, flea markets attract a range of publics: discerning collectors, professional pickers, resourceful vendors, and casual browsers. This summer, a cohort of Magdalena Abakanowicz Fellows attended the Circle Drive-in Flea Fair in Scranton, PA to delve into the mechanisms of the flea market and engage in alternative modes of production and exchange. 

Drawing from the ethos of Mildred's Lane, this project builds off the social ecology of the flea market while collapsing boundaries between art and life. The interdisciplinary project plays with the layered dynamics between objects, place, time, and interpersonal connections. 

The exhibition Everything Could Go, opening at The Mildred Complex(ity) Saturday, July 23, is one of a few iterations of this investigation. The show features artworks made from reimagined flea market finds, documentation of the group's booths at the Flea Fair, and records of conversations and interactions that unfolded.

The Flea Market Project and Exhibition are made possible by The Madalena Abakanowicz Arts and Culture Charitable Trust and The Department of Arts and Crafts in the Oslo National Academy of the Arts (KHiO). Thank you all.

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MARK DION is an American conceptual artist best known for using scientific methodologies in his installations. His work examines how prevalent ideologies and institutions influence our understanding of history, knowledge, and the natural world. The job of the artist, according to him, is to "go against the grain of dominant culture, to challenge perception and convention." ( Art 21). Dion is the co-director of Mildred's Lane, Pennsylvania.

AMY YOES works in a multi-faceted way, alternately employing installation, photography, video, painting, and sculpture. An interest in decorative language and architectural space permeates all of her work. She responds to formal topologies of ornament and style that have reverberated through time, informing our mutually constructed visual and cultural memory. Visit Hot Corners, a site-specific installation at MASS MoCA in North Adams MA. It is a multi-room, immersive environment with thematic forms and functions. 

MARY JANE JACOB is a curator and writer who championed public, site-specific, and socially engaged art as a shared practice and discourse. She is Professor and Director of the Institute for Curatorial Research and Practice at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In 2018 she published Dewey for Artists with the University of Chicago Press. She is curating the Magdalena Abakanowicz exhibition at the Tate Modern opening this November.

MERETE RØSTAD is an interdisciplinary artist, educator, and artist-researcher whose projects are rooted in examining collective memory, representation, and archives in the public sphere. Røstad is an Associate Professor in Art and Public Space (MFA) and head of research at the Department of Arts and Craft at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts (KHiO).

THE MILDRED COMPLEX(ity) project space is the public face of Mildred's Lane. Located on Narrowsburg's Main Street, working-living-making-researching exhibitions, programs, and events by artists questioning our impact as cultural producers in every aspect of life in the 21st century. 

YEAR of SILVER / Exhibition - The Mildred Complex(ity) presents Susanna Crum and Rudy Salgado 'On the Map'

YEAR of SILVER / Exhibition
The Mildred Complex(ity) presents
Susanna Crum and Rudy Salgado
On the Map
May 28 through July 4 / Reception / Saturday / May 28th / 1 pm through 5 pm

How and when does a town begin? In the US, the naming and establishment of a post office have inscribed the intention and identity of a town on maps and within communities. From the 1860s to the 1930s, itinerant tintype photographers traveled the country with mobile portrait studios. They summoned ghosts in the atmospheric backgrounds of their images or documented soldiers and the deceased for inclusion in the newly-popular family photo album. Tintypes were the first affordable means for Americans to share images with distant family and friends, as the photographs on metal could be reliably placed in the mail. Rudy Salgado and Susanna Crum traveled with a mobile darkroom around the state of Kentucky, investigating historical post office sites with this 170-year-old method. In their hours spent producing hand-poured plates on site, they met property owners and history keepers who shared stories of the post office as a crucial community-powered site for information and social exchange. On the Map includes photographs, drawings, and postcards from this research-led journey
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Susanna Crum and Rudy Salgado live in Louisville, Kentucky, where they operate Calliope Arts, a shared workspace for artists working in print media. They received MFA degrees from the University of Iowa in 2012 and moved to Louisville to work as artists, collaborators, and educators. Together, they care for property and a house built in 1885 in downtown Louisville, including their residence, printmaking, wet plate collodion photography studios, a large kitchen garden, and a chicken coop. They have exhibited solo and collaborative projects across the US and abroad, and have received numerous grants and awards. They have recently attended artist residencies at Kunstarhuset Messen, Ålvik, Norway; Edinburgh Printmakers, Edinburgh, Scotland; Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA; and Mildred's Lane, Beach Lake, PA. Susanna and Rodolfo have made many ongoing contributions to Mildred's Lane Projects, including Mildred Archaeology. 
Insta/ @susannacrum and @rivercitytintype
Image / Bryants Store, 2021 /Wet plate collodion tintype, 8x10

Year of Silver marks our 25th anniversary – hence Mildred's Lane is closed to refresh the site, the artist projects, and upgrade our organization. We are fundraising to expand our impact as a cultural site for the future throughout the year. To support these efforts in fundraising, in the landscape, supported internships, and general assistance, please send letters of interest with your skills and available working dates to mildredslane@gmail.com 

ARTFORUM / On Site

image / Views of Mildred's Lane, Beach Lake, PA. Kitchen Laboratory, 2018. Photo: Robyn Lea.

... Mildred’s Lane is not a product to be consumed or an “experience” to be Instagrammed. It is a link in a larger countercultural chain that, like the variegated ecosystems of the property, may be critically endangered.
Read the article /

ARTFORUM / ON SITE

GOOD HOUSEKEEPING

Ian Bourland on Mildred’s Lane
Please DONATE / Help Protect Mildred's Lane
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SILVER–IRON–LIGHT Opening / November 6, 2021 / 3-6pm

The Mildred Complex(ity)

SILVER–IRON–LIGHT
Opening / November 6, 2021 / 3-6pm
37B Main Street. Narrowsburg, NY

Noah Doely, Shoshana Fink, Rich Garr, Leila Gordon, Nancy Grace Horton, Elizabeth Kelly, Leah Koransky, Joe Lerro, Rachael Schmoker, Samiha Tasnim,

The Mildred Complex(ity) Project Space is pleased to present alchemical works created by fellows during the Summer 2021 session, SILVER–IRON–LIGHT. The exhibition features handmade 19th-century photographic processes including tintype, cyanotype, and anthotype, as well as other works revealing the landscape of Mildred's Lane. 

Please visit the storefront project space located at 37B Main Street. Narrowsburg, NY 12764. We will be open on Saturdays from 12 to 5 pm and Sundays from 12 to 4 pm throughout the exhibition's run; or, contact mildreslane@gmail.com to visit by appointment. 

The Labor Portraits in conversation with The Maslow Collection

The Labor Portraits of Mildred's Lane
J. Morgan Puett, Jeffrey Jenkins, Rebecca Purcell
and Fellows* of Mildred's Lane
in conversation with
The Maslow Collection*
The Maslow Study Gallery for Contemporary Art
at
Marywood University / Scranton, Pennsylvania

WORKSTYLES* of Mildred's Lane
Artist Talk / J. Morgan Puett / October 20, 2021 / 4:00 pm  / Comerford Theater 
Opening reception following.
 

Marywood University Art Department and The Maslow Collection present thirteen large-scale color photographs depicting some of the creative practices ongoing at Mildred's Lane, PA– WORKSTYLES – an active systems aesthetics created by J. Morgan Puett with countless collaborators convening over two decades in a working-living-researching project. 
 

Overall, eighteen labors of Mildred's Lane attempt to reframe histories of women's work in the domestic environment for the twenty-first century. These photographic portraits on view were initially commissioned for an exhibition in Chicago titled  A Proximity of Consciousness, (2014, Curator, Mary Jane Jacob.) Within the production, J. Morgan Puett's art installation is complexly titled HumanUfactorY(ng) Workstyles: Excerpts from the User's Guide to Mildred's Lane.  A Costume Drama of the Everyday. The portraits are part (yet, independent of) a section of the installation referred to as The Hall of Labors. The Labor Portraits live amongst the collections/installations of Mildred's Lane and have traveled to multiple venues worldwide. 
 

J. Morgan Puett and Ryan Ward (artist and curator of The Maslow Collection) make selections from The Maslow Collection in conversation with The Labor Portraits of Mildred's Lane. The Maslow Collection's featured artists' work includes; Berenice Abbott, William Bailey, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Harry Callahan, Mark Cohen, Robert Cumming, Hamish Fulton, Jane Hammond, Karla Knight, Wendell MacRae, Friedrich Meckseper, Will Mentor, Wright Morris, Joan Nelson, Ellen Phelan, Ed Ruscha, and Robert Smithson.

Additional to the salon installation, the gallery cases feature select ephemera, papers, cloths, and books from the archives of Mildred's Lane.

Note/ Importanly, there are other collaborating artists working on this ongoing project in more detail at www.mildredslane.com.

Installation view, 2021.

*About The Maslow Collection

The Maslow Collection is the largest and most comprehensive collection of contemporary art in Northeastern Pennsylvania, with over 500 works by 150 artists. The most significant part of the Maslow Collection is devoted to paintings by newly established or emerging artists working (or exhibiting) in New York during the late 1970s through the early 1990s. The Collection of Marilyn and Richard Maslow was housed initially at Intermetro Industries; it is now on long-term loan to Marywood University. 

*From the Glossary of Mildred's Lane 
Work•styles (short version) werk-stīls / noun or verb

1. the embodiment of any practitioners' work-live-research environment as a rigorous, aesthetic, intellectual, economic, and civic engagement with every aspect of life centered on new modes of being in the twenty-first century. 3. evoking social and political entanglement questioning our relationships to, a) the environment, b) people, c) systems of labor, d) dwelling, e) design apparatuses, f) inventive domesticating – composing ethics of comportment – being as practice. 

Origin: neologism of Mildred's Lane. See Gesamtkunstwerk, (German: [gəˈzamtˌkʊnstvɛɐk],1827, literally "total artwork," frequently translated as "total work of art." A work of art that makes use of all or many art forms or strives to do so. The term is a German loanword accepted in English as a term in aesthetics; notes from Wikipedia.) See System Esthetics, Jack Burnham, Art Forum 1969.  See The Discipline of DE, William Burroughs' The Exterminator! 1979, and film, Gus Van Sant 1982.

Top Image / from The Labor Portraits of Mildred's Lane / Land Steward / Archival Giclée, 24 X 34, 2014. Limited Edition.
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The Mildred Complex(ity) / 37b Main Street / Narrowsburg, NY.

Other News / THE MILDRED COMPLEX(ITY) Project Space

CURRENTLY ON VIEW / OCTOBER
Apicultural Curiosities from The Grafter's Shack at Mildred's Lane

UPCOMING / NOVEMBER
SILVER–IRON–LIGHT
Works on view from Fellows of Summer Sessions 2021 at Mildred's Lane.
Opening November 6, 2021

The Mildred Complex(ity) April/May

The Mildred Complex(ity)
37b Main Street, Narrowsburg, NY 12764

The Mildred Complex(ity) is a project space exhibiting creative thinkers and makers working at Mildred's Lane, an art site and residency. Mildred's Lane comes out of the woods and onto Main Street USA to form a series of projects and events for the Upper Delaware River Valley community and beyond. The aims of town projects are in the spirit of exchange, making connections to this distinctive river town, Narrowsburg, New York. 

Topics include contemporary, post-recession economic strategies for artists, changing art world dynamics, and expanding creative practitioners' roles. We define storefront practices as spaces for emergence – particularly concerning environmental action and social engagement. The storefront allows us to directly engage the public visiting Main Street, taking on the challenge of reframing new possibilities for community involvement by activating curiosity.
 

Balanced Rock, Idaho 2019 / 28.5”x 38” / B+W Archival Giclée

MAY at The Mildred Complex(ity)
A Guide to the Field
presents

JEFFREY JENKINS
Angles of Repose
April 30 through May 30
Closing reception, May 28, 2021.

The Mildred Complex(ity) consists of a studio, office, experimental retail storefront space in Narrowsburg's quaint hamlet, a hundred miles northwest of New York City. Year-round we present projects, workshops, lectures, and exhibitions. 

Currently, A Guide to the Field is occupying The Mildred Complex(ity), at 37b Main Street, Narrowsburg, NY 12764

Unlike a typical 'field guide,' where one searches for the natural world's identification and definition, A Guide to the Field creates a field by naming it. It offers alternatives to what needs guiding, interpretation, and consumption and questions what a future field looks like.

Upcoming projects and collaborations include:

APRIL MAY / A Guide to the Field presents / Angles of Repose / Jeffrey Jenkins

JUNE / Mildred's Lane Remembers / Matthew Solomon

JULY / Mildred's Lane / Silver - Iron - Light / Noah Doely and Fellows 

AUGUST / River Valley Arts Collective / Candice Madey and Alyson Baker / featuring  Miranda Zhang / Shari Mendelson

SEPTEMBER / Mildred's Lane / Forest - Body - Chair / Gina Siepel, Sara Smith and Fellows 
 

Find more updates and information about projects, exhibitions, collecting, and hosting short stays; go to www.mildredslane.com and www.aguideotthefield.com.
 

Year of LANDSCAPE / DEMOCRACY / WELLNESS
2021 at Mildred's Lane in the Age of Coronavirus Horror

Become a Fellow/ SUPPORT a Fellow
Accepting Applications for Summer Sessions Now!

Year of LANDSCAPE / DEMOCRACY / WELLNESS2021 at Mildred's Lane in the Age of Coronavirus Horror

Year of LANDSCAPE / DEMOCRACY / WELLNESS
2021 at Mildred's Lane in the Age of Coronavirus Horror
with
Alyson Baker / Barbara Bourland / David Brooks / Nina Burleigh / D. Graham Burnett / Donna Cleary / Jorge Colombo / Liz Collins / Susanna Crum / Deborah Davidovits / Mark Dion / Noah Doely / Sarah Doherty / Jeff Dolven / Juliet Dunn / Coco Fusco / Justin Ginsberg / Hope Ginsburg / Pablo Helguera / Aaron Hicklin / Jeffrey Jenkins / Alex A. Jones / Cameron Klavsen / Athena Kokoronis / Joe Lerro / Candice Madey / Kristyna Milde / Marek Milde / Leonard Nalencz / Nate Padavick / Claire Pentecost / Rebecca Purcell / Barry Puett / J. Morgan Puett / Sal Randolph / Anna Riley / Rodolfo Salgado Jr. / Rachael Schmoker / Gina Siepel / Laura Silverman / Sara Smith / Dannielle Tegeder / Mark Thomann / James Voorhies / Amy Yoes /
and many others to be announced in May

MAY/JUNE / ongoing
WORKSTYLING the WILD

Deborah Davidovitz, Donna Cleary, Sarah Doherty, Juliet Dunn, Jeffrey Jenkins, Joe Lerro, Barry Puett, Rachael Schmoker, Laura Silverman

Reclaiming the garden has taken several years; we are nearly there. Previous Wilding fellows rehabilitated the soil, bushwacked through the overgrowth of invasive species, and took command of the compost, priming the site for a new beginning for this vibrant community of flora, fauna, and creatures -- come workstyle the wild with us.
 

JUNE / 7 through 27
SILVER – IRON – LIGHT 

Noah Doely and others to be announced 

Set in the landscape with an extravaganza of 19th and 20th-century equipment, we will facilitate a series of Plein-air tintype, cyanotype, and anthotype processes using various materials hand-coated plates, paper, fabric, and plant-based pigments. You may bring your own equipment or learn to use ours. The work will culminate in an exhibition at The Mildred Complex(ity) Project Space in nearby Narrowsburg, NY.
 

JULY / 5 through 25
FOREST – BODY – CHAIR 

Gina Siepel and Sara Smith

A tree becomes a chair and enters our lives as an intimate partner. The relational dynamics between the forest, the human body, and the wooden chair provide an entry point for exploring nature and culture's mutuality. No previous experience with movement or woodworking is required. We will end the session with an exhibition/installation/event open to the public.
 

AUGUST / 2 through 9
ORDER OF THE THIRD BIRD: ATTENTION LAB 

Anna Riley and Justin Ginsberg + Distinguished Associates, D. Graham Burnett, Leonard Nalencz, and Sal Randolph.

Indiscreet friends of the Third Bird Order continue their investigations into experimental protocols of Practical Aesthesis and various tactics for Sustained Attention – our aim will be to develop and test new durational practices of attention. 
 

SEPTEMBER / 7 through 27
BIBLIOPHANTICS

Featuring special author appearances to be announced. 

An intensive Reading Retreat. Enchanting stays in the Mildred's Lane Library, with volumes to consume, quietly -- aloud -– socially– privately. There are Plein-air installations situated in the forest, designed for creative repose and relaxation, awakening all senses for complete comprehension – reading amongst the trees.
 

OCTOBER / open for scheduling

Mildred's Lane is an experiment in alternative pedagogies; an excellent time for class programming, individual retreats, or group visits; contact us to organize your program of experience. The Mildred's Lane Commons offers essential tools for creating the future. Consider the strategic possibilities for challenging creative minds–students, faculty, and colleagues– during the COVID-19 pandemic months and years ahead. 
 

Become a Fellow/SUPPORT a Fellow

Accepting Applications for Summer Sessions Now!

Year of LANDSCAPE / DEMOCRACY / WELLNESS 2021 at Mildred's Lane in the age of Coronavirus Horror

Year of LANDSCAPE / DEMOCRACY / WELLNESS
2021 at Mildred's Lane in the age of Coronavirus Horror

The Mildred's Lane community nestles in the Upper Delaware River Valley; for the past twenty years, creative fellows join together, forming an environment for working, researching, making, thinking, living – being. There are no studios; the entire site is the studio; people are a rhizome cultivating discursive topics and projects for the 21st-century – home earth.

Mildred's Lane does not predetermine titles or themes for each year. We identify the emergent confluence from many contributing resident-artists-in-complexity projects and the ideas they bring to this art-site. Living through this age of horror feeling omnipresent disorientation, naming multiple concerns seems fitting for Sessions 2021. 

Landscape/ With the environmental crisis amongst us, creative minds are called upon to submit new solutions, new problems. Most importantly, to demand that the world is assured clean water for everyone and everything, now and in the future. Democracy/ The threat of losing our freedoms with white supremacy taking strongholds in our communities; we need to find ways to navigate this period of confrontation and growth to achieve mutualism. Wellness/ Our bodies and minds require nurturing more than ever. The pandemic continues to take our loved ones. So many are left alone and without. We need time to mend our broken hearts from witnessing the inequalities of illness, race, gender, and immigration.  And, we will – with more exchange and collaboration toward critical healing.

Let's maintain and embrace the fundamentals – community. Wit and tact are the jewelry redressing these times. Gather and swarm around experimental domesticity and topics that tool along with creative forces necessary to reinvent a future.

Take a look at the Mildred's Lane Info-Zine describing the commons of discreet landscape interventions, environmentally site-sensitive installations, vernacular outbuildings, and exhibition spaces. Embedded is a section of upcoming projects, workshops, lectures, think tanks, and events with visiting artists throughout the season. We hope to see you here. Happy April,  _Mildred's Lane.

Become a Fellow/SUPPORT a Fellow
Accepting Applications for Summer Sessions Now!

Photo/ Robyn Lea from BOHEMIAN LIVING

2021 Sessions will convene!

Update / 2021
Landscape / Democracy / Wellness /
in an age of Coronavirus Horror.

After much consideration, we are announcing that sessions will convene – Spring/Summer/Fall 2021, at Mildred's Lane. Send your letters of interest and be a part of upcoming events, tours, short stays, and residencies in the woods. Stay tuned for early schedules to be announced.
 

The Mildred's Lane Commons offers essential tools for the future. Mildred's Lane is an experiment in alternative pedagogies – for over two decades ongoing; institutions need more space that is safe. Consider the strategic possibilities for challenging creative minds–students, faculty, and colleagues– during the COVID-19 pandemic months and years ahead. 

Mildred's Lane has 94-acres of forest, streams, fields, ponds, outbuildings, cabins, camps, studios – PROJECTS. Our protocols naturally command social distancing while exchanging communally all at once. This rustic, historic site accommodates small groups and resident-artists-in-complex(ity).

Toward New and Emergent Curriculums 

Become a sending institution or a sending individual – support a fellow for independent study and research on specific topics. Customize an emergent curriculum to your needs. Space is limited due to coronavirus cautions. From the deep woods of Pennsylvania bordering our local hamlet of Narrowsburg, NY, we activate events and exhibitions in the Upper Delaware River Valley Region. 

Change is here and now. Let's celebrate through action. Contact us, be a part of significant conversations around healing democracy!

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Limited space from April through November. We welcome letters of interest. Reserve your space.

mildredslane@gmail.com

Mildred's Lane 2021: Toward New and Emergent Curriculums

Update /

2021 in the age of the Coronavirus.
Toward New and Emergent Curriculums 
 

The Mildred's Lane Commons is a valuable tool. Mildred's Lane is an experiment in alternative pedagogies for over two decades ongoing, Institutions need more space that is safe. Consider the strategic possibilities for challenging creative minds–students, faculty, and colleagues– during the COVID-19 pandemic months and years ahead.  
 
Mildred's Lane has 94-acres of forest, streams, fields, ponds, outbuildings, cabins, camps, studios, and PROJECTS. Our protocols naturally command social distancing while exchanging communally all at once. This rustic, historic site accommodates small groups and resident-artists-in-complex(ity).

Become a sending institution. Customize an emergent curriculum to your needs. You may send individuals to do independent study and research on a specific artist and site-project. The town studio and project spaces activate events and exhibitions in the local hamlet of Narrowsburg, NY, Upper Delaware River Valley Region bordering Pennsylvania. 

We are announcing our year-round schedule for 2021 soon and welcoming letters of interest. Change is here and now. Let's celebrate through action.

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Rolling Enrollment for Emergent Curriculums / Internships / Writing & Research Residencies / Adjunct Cell / or other.

mildredslane@gmail.com

Thank you, Mildred's Lane Resident-Artists-in-Complex(ity)

Samiha Tasnim / Officer of Complex(ity) since winter 2020 / Graduate of Mt. Holyoke College Studio Arts / MA

This year's RAICs have been awarded the Certificate of Plenipotentiary for their outstanding contributions to the most challenging season here at Mildred's Lane. Each year, we invite a handful of fellows to staff our efforts throughout the year. During a very shut down season, our sending institutions and colleagues selected the 2020 spring/summer team to learn the fine art and system aesthetics of Workstyles of Mildred's Lane. Their RAIC experience includes aiding the Ambassadors and assisting artists from around the world on projects and sessions swarming around social topics. 

These fellows are most recognized for their patience during this season of COVID-19, working collectively, laboriously, creatively domesticating, detailing our relations to the environment and each other, but importantly, taking constant care and maintenance of the artist projects in these deep woods. Thank you.

Thank you to colleagues and institutions supporting these Mildred's Lane RAIC Fellows*: 
The Mildred Complex(ity), J. Morgan Puett, Mark Dion, The Cooper Union Center for Career Development Professional Internship Program, The Luminarts Cultural Foundation, and anonymous others.

Thank you to Friends of Mildred's Lane making our one and only session a smooth and successful one: Carla Duarte, Abby Lutz, Leila Gordon, and Barry Puett.

Thank you to Marx for Cats Applied: Caroline Woolard and Leigh Claire La Berge, with contributing artists, Daniel Tucker and Emily Bunker, Marisa Williamson; and with Fellows Brett Wallace, Lee Noble, Hannah Hirsekorn, Barry Puett, and Isabel Jerome.

Natalie Straub,
Master Hooshress
Graduate of Rutgers Mason Gross School of the Arts, NJ

Hannah Hirsekorn,
Land Steward
Graduate of The School of the Art Institute of Chicago Fibers and Material Studies Program, IL

Isabel Jerome,
Ministry of Comfort
Student of The Cooper Union, NYC