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
                                                                                                                      _ The Artists / May 2022

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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Mildred's Lane / YEAR of SILVER

News.
2022 is Mildred's Lane's 25th anniversary! We pause Summer Sessions in compliance with our local government enforcing new ordinances in Damascus Township, PA. Currently, we are not allowed to host short-term stays. Still, we are working out these complex conditional use variances to a proper and sound outcome by focusing on the site's repairs and upgrades. Hence, it is time to center attention on building an endowment for the future. 

What to do About Mildred's Lane?

A group of Plenipotentiaries is forming to collectively reassemble how we operate forward using this good tool called Mildred's Lane.  Thank you, 2022 Plenipotentiaries of Mildred's Lane /

Alyson Baker, Paul Bartow, Barbara Bourland, David Brooks, Phong Bui, Nina Burleigh, Emily Bunker, D. Graham Burnett, Liz Collins, Barbara DeVries, Mark Dion, Jeff Dolven, Carla Duarte, Erik Freeland, Coco Fusco, Hope Ginsburg, Jill Goldman, Asti Hustvedt, Adriene Jenik, Jeffrey Jenkins, Alex A. Jones, Jon Kessler, Cameron Klavsen, Athena Kokoronis, Leigh Claire La Berge, Joe Lerro/Rachael Schmocker, Abby Lutz, Denise Markonish, Leonard Nalencz, Nils Norman, Claire Pentecost, Liza Phillips, Barry Puett, Grey Rabbit Puett, J. Morgan Puett, Sal Randolph, Gina Siepel, Samiha Tasnim, Mark Thomann, Nato Thompson, Daniel Tucker, Rebecca Uchill, James Voorhies, Robert Williams, Caroline Woolard, Amy Yoes.
 

If you missed the first round of information and want to join these efforts, please contact us at mildredslane@gmail.com. More information will surface soon! Stay tuned, be involved.

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UPCOMING in 2022

MILDRED'S LANE AND THE MILDRED COMPLEX(ITY)

We present a series of exhibitions to celebrate our YEAR OF SILVER, including seasonal events, Town Fridays, Social Saturdays, and Projects in and around our local hamlet, Narrowsburg, NY. Please join us! 

February / March 

TO MILDRED'S LANE WITH LOVE

An exhibition from the archives and collection by some of the Allstars of Mildred's Lane. 

April /May

SCHEMATICS / 1997 – 2022

An installation of rarely seen drawings, diagrams, maps, and plans by J. Morgan Puett, Mark Dion, and others.

May / June 

ON THE MAP 

An exhibition featuring Susanna Crum and Rodolfo Salgado Jr. documenting historical post office sites – tintype photography. 

June / July / September 

MILDRED / LILLIE ARCHAEOLOGY/ At Mildred's Lane, we continue to research and preserve the farm site of existing eighteenth / nineteenth-century outbuildings and *repairing projects and vernacular architecture by artists in collaboration with the landscape over two-and-a-half decades – IN CELEBRATION OF THE YEAR OF SILVER! 
 

July /August

FLEA MARKET 

A project with Mark Dion, Amy Yoes, and The School of the Art Institute (SAIC). Stay tuned for information about lectures, events, performances, and more at The Mildred Complex(ity) and The 108 on Main Street, Narrowsburg, NY.

MORE TO COME! Contact us about day visits, tours, walks, and talks, FOLLOW these news dispatches or write to mildredslane@gmail.com.

*Accepting application for interns only at this time. Send letters of interest to, mildredslane@gmail.com.

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 SUPPORT in the YEAR OF SILVER

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

Order of the Third Bird at Mildred's Lane

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

The Attention Lab: The Bird’s Eye View
August 2-8, 2021

Justin Ginsberg and Anna Riley
With D. Graham Burnett / Adam Jasper / and Leonard Nalencz
Participating Fellows / Brad Fox / Jill Goldman / Billie London-Gray / Yana Payusova / Bonnie Saland / Roxanne Steinberg / Katarina Verguelis / Ruby Waldo

“Temporary metempsychosis may occur, but must not become permanent.”
-Manual of the Order of the Third Bird

Radical forms of sustained attention have transformative power. And the cultivation of our capacities for deep attention has never felt more important. The relentless commodification of human attentional resources represents a genuine threat to individual freedom, political solidarity, and the actual experience of the world around us – the phenomena of nature, the work of art and life. In this session, artists Justin Ginsberg and Anna Riley will lead a week of experiments in “practical aesthesis,” drawing on a set of formal “Birdish” practices and protocols for somatosensory activation. Committed to care, co-presence, and convivium, these durational exercises in collaborative, radical attention aim to create the conditions for a new world.

The Avis Tertia, or “Order of the Third Bird” may not even exist, though rumors of its activities abound. Its associates are said to engage in playful, insurgent, and anarchic forms of collective attention – perhaps as protest, perhaps as pure celebration of being (and/or its antithesis). Its history is the work of the research collective ESTAR(SER).

FOREST–BODY–CHAIR

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

FOREST–BODY–CHAIR
July 5 through 25, 2021

Gina Siepel and Sara Smith

Featuring Francis Cape / Hope Ginsburg / Laura Mays / Bernadine Mellis / Chris Nassise / Karinne Keithley Syers / Gavin Van Horn / Amy Yoes /
with Fellows
Julia O. Bianco (Abakanowicz Fellow) / Leila Gordon (Abakanowicz Fellow) / Forrest Hudes / Joe Lerro (RAIC) / Rumpelstiltskin Anne Morgan / Lotte Walworth / Rachael Schmoker (RAIC) / Ainsley Steeves (CSU) / Samiha Tasnim (Abakanowicz Fellow)

When a tree becomes a chair, it 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 the mutuality and false duality of nature and culture. In the domestic environment, chairs are places of rest for the body, social facilitators, and symbolic cultural forms. Chairs as we know them can also be poorly designed for the human body, causing a variety of physical problems.

We will immerse ourselves in the forests of Mildred’s Lane; conducting somatic, ergonomic, and hands-on research to develop unique, experimental chair forms that actively consider the forest, the body, and the domestic sphere. Multi-modal investigations of the forest, human anatomy, and vernacular American furniture design in relation to concepts of enlivenment and sustainability will form the basis of our explorations in the landscape. 

Gina Siepel is an interdisciplinary artist, designer, and woodworker. Her work explores cultural understandings of nature, gender, and American history, through the production of objects and collaborative experiments in public spaces. Gina has exhibited extensively in the northeastern US and has received funding from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the Berkshire Taconic Foundation, and the Puffin Foundation and is currently an artist in residence at the Macleish Field Station at Smith College. Gina holds a BFA from SUNY Purchase, an MFA from the Maine College of Art, and teaches studio art at Mount Holyoke College. Gina lives in Greenfield, MA, with Sara Smith. www.ginasiepel.com

Sara Smith is a transdisciplinary choreographer and librarian who creates speculative documentary works exploring interconnection and the poetics and politics of embodied and archival research. She is a recent recipient of the Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship award in Choreography and lives in Greenfield, MA, with Gina Siepel. sarasmithprojects.com

IRON–SILVER–LIGHT

IRON–SILVER–LIGHT
June 7 through 27, 2021

This Week's Contributing Artists
Michael Blanding / Madeleine Cass / Liz Collins / Jorge Colombo / Noah Doely / Susan Hapgood / Abby Lutz / Nate Padavick / James Voorhies / Rebecca Uchill / Amy Yoes /

Featuring Session Leader, Noah Doely and his assistant, Taylor Hansen (Mildred Fellow) / plus Fellows; Susan Fink (MCAD Fellow) / Rich Garr / Leila Gordon (Abakanowicz Fellow) / Nancy Grace Horton / Elizabeth Kelly / Leah Koransky / Joe Lerro and Rachel Schmoker (Resident-Artists-In-Complex(ity) / Samiha Tasnim (Abakanowicz Fellow)

Set in the landscape with an extravaganza of 19th and 20th-century equipment, we are facilitating a series of Plein-air tintype, cyanotype, and anthotype processes using various materials hand-coated plates, paper, fabric, and plant-based pigments. These alchemical processes combine science and wonder; collaboration and experimentation as part of events and activities throughout this session. Participants set up a photography studio in the field and Barn Lyceum for processing and development. The work will culminate in an exhibition at The Mildred Complex(ity) Project Space in nearby Narrowsburg, NY this coming fall.

Noah Doely received a BFA from the University of Northern Iowa and an MFA from the University of California, San Diego. He has exhibited nationally and internationally in venues such as Steve Turner Contemporary (Los Angeles), The San Diego Museum of Art, Locust Projects (Miami), The Cornell Fine Arts Museum (Winter Park), Viafarini (Milan, Italy), Seattle Center on Contemporary Art, and the Des Moines Art Center. Doely has been awarded fellowships and residencies at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, MacDowell, The Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and Sciences, the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, the Penumbra Foundation, and he is a 2018 Iowa Artist Fellowship recipient. His work has appeared in various publications, including the Los Angeles Times, Juxtapoz Magazine, The North American Review, and Burnaway Magazine. He is currently an Associate Professor of Photography at the University of Northern Iowa.

Image / Noah Doely / Lane Window

Mildred's Lane announces Abakanowicz Creative

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

Abakanowicz Creative Community Fellowship

Mildred’s Lane is proud to announce the Abakanowicz Arts and Culture Charitable Foundation (AACCF) is awarding $50,000 to establish the Abakanowicz Creative Community Fellowship.

One or more Abakanowicz Fellows will be appointed over each of the next five years (2021-2025). This award is given to help support fellows’ activities and living expenses, as well as related public programs for each summer’s educational program at Mildred’s Lane.

This award acknowledges Magdalena Abakanowicz’s belief that an artist is best stimulated and challenged to grow in the community of artists, other creative persons, and intellectuals who query deeply the times in which they live, finding lessons in history, culture, and importantly nature.

We share with you these words of the artist when she spoke of her close friendship with pioneer avant-garde painter Henryk Stażewski (1894–1988):

I was brought up by a Polish Constructivist who was the friend of Mondrian, and who worked in the Cercle et Carre in Paris. His name is Henryk Stażewski. I never studied with him; you can't see any Constructivism in my work. I was very close to him for many years. He was my dear friend. In his one-room flat on the twelfth floor of an apartment building the intellectuals of Warsaw used to come together and talk: poets, musicians, theater people, historians, visual artists, also writers and politicians. Everything was questioned, and the search for new reality, for answers to existential problems touched all areas of human thoughts and intellect. This was my school. It was really a fantastic group for many years, and they accepted me, and I had this marvelous feeling that because they criticized me, they were interested in my work.

It's the same kind of raising that you have in family life where you teach your children with your own behavior, the way you speak, the way you make comments. Not something direct.... It was at the end of the 1950s and the beginning of the 1960s after the Stalinist period when we had absolute freedom and we felt the necessity to prove that we had something to express. This was a very interesting period. I was with these people sitting in the corner, listening and very happy that I was being accepted. Then we became friends, and it was a kind of family for me for many years.

Mildred’s Lane sends its gratitude to the Abakanowicz Arts and Culture Charitable Foundation and announces these Abakanowicz Fellows 2021;

Elise Wigle-Wells / Pennsylvania USA
Julia O. Bianco / Argentina-Mexico-USA
Samiha Tasnim / Bangladesh-New York USA
Leila Gordon / Pennsylvania USA
Rich Garr / New York USA

Thank you, AACCF_
J. Morgan Puett and Mark Dion

Workstyling the Wild at Mildred's Lane

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

Late May / Early June Session
WORKSTYLING the WILD

Contributing Artists coming and going are; Barbara Bourland / Deborah Davidovits / Donna Cleary / Sarah Doherty / Juliet Dunn / Coco Fusco / Jeffrey Jenkins / Alex Jones / Cameron Klavsen / Joe Lerro / Kristyna and Marek Milde / Barry Puett / Rebecca Purcell / Rachael Schmoker / Laura Silverman / and others To Be Announced.

There is a sleepy, shady garden at Mildred's Lane. We let it go after years of competing with varmints. Reclaiming it has taken several seasons and we are nearly there. Previous Wilding Fellows reconditioned the soil of the original oval garden, built with Yale Graduate Sculpture Students in 1999. Last year's Resident-Artist-In-Complex(ity) (*RAIC) ripped out the invasive species and leveled the site. Now, we are rethinking how to coexist, allowing for a vibrant community of flora and fauna sharing this wild place, as we turn toward a program about well being – come join in the dialogs.

We are planting pollinators, expanding on the Mildes' Project – Plantarium. We will forage the forest, set up a tincture-making laboratory, and keep bees – rebuilding the radical apiary after a bear ripped it apart last year. The art of composting will be featured with our Land Steward, Joe Lerro. Join in daily artful movement routines with Wellness Steward, Rachael Schmoker, and her new practice – Bed-ga.

Listen to wisdom lectures from non-humans, master gardeners, botanists, beekeepers, landscapers, and herbalists. Let's get down and dirty with daily events as we rebuild a landscape of medicinal rhizomes, roots, flowers, and herbs; foraging-digging-rearranging-building-planting-swimming -- come workstyle the wild with us.

Ongoing by the week or by the day.

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 residing throughout the season. We hope to see you here – Mildred's Lane.

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

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

Limited space in 2021

MILDRED'S LANE / 2021
Landscape / Democracy / Wellness /
in an age of Coronavirus Horror

2021 is the year to concentrate on healing. Our sessions this summer will not take the usual form. Contributing resident-artists-in-complex(ity) will come and go, blurring time for fellows to concentrate on wellness. We have alchemists, naturalists, gardeners, and Yogis in the landscape. Our daily schedules are emergent. There are dozens of collaborations to take part in; but, is there something more pressing to desire from Mildred's Lane? Contact us.

We welcome letters of interest. Reserve your space. We are accepting Applications Now—limited space from April through November. 

More dates and details forthcoming. Our schedules are subject to change due to Coronavirus. 

MAY/JUNE 
WORKSTYLING the WILD
Donna Cleary, Juliet Dunn, Jeffrey Jenkins, Joe Lerro, Barry Puett, Rachael Schmoker, Laura Silverman, and others to be announced.
 
There is a sleeping, shady garden at Mildred's Lane. We let it go wild for several years; too heartbreaking, competing with varmints destroying our work. Reclaiming it has taken time, we are nearly there. Previous Wilding fellows rehabilitated the soil, priming the garden for a new beginning. Others ripped out the invasive species and leveled the site. We are rethinking how to coexist, allowing a vibrant community of flora, fauna, and creatures sharing and turning it into a wellness program. We are working in tandem with the Outside Institute, foraging the deep forest. Listen to wisdom from the non-humans, master gardeners, botanists, beekeepers, landscapers, and herbalists as we take field trips to fantastic hikes in the woods. Let's get down and dirty with daily events, replanting a garden of medicinal rhizomes, roots, flowers, and herbs; foraging-digging-rearranging-building-planting- swimming -- come workstyle the wild with us. 
 
JUNE  
SILVER – IRON – LIGHT 
Noah Doely and others to be announced.

Set in the landscape with an extravaganza of 19th and 20th-century equipment, are facilitating 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. These alchemical processes combine science and wonder; collaboration and experimentation will be part of events and activities throughout the session. Participants will set up a photography studio in the field for processing and development. The work will culminate in an exhibition at The Mildred Complex(ity) Project Space in nearby Narrowsburg, NY. 
 
JULY  
FOREST – BODY – CHAIR 
Gina Siepel, Sara Smith, and Kate Wellspring. 
 
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. In the domestic environment, chairs are utilitarian objects for resting the body and are social facilitators. As we know them, Chairs can also be poorly designed for the human body, causing a variety of physical problems. Multi-modal investigations of vernacular American furniture design will form the basis for experimenting together with these potentials and challenges through the framework of sustainability. 

Explore Mildred's Lane's forests with a field naturalist, practice and study somatics and ergonomics with movement facilitators, and source wood directly from the site for greenwood chair construction with a woodworker. We'll conduct research to develop unique, experimental chair forms that actively consider sustainability in the forest, body, and domestic sphere. No previous experience with movement or woodworking is required. We will end the session with an exhibition/installation/event open to the public. 
 
AUGUST  
ORDER OF THE THIRD BIRD: ATTENTION LAB
To be determined.
 
Indiscreet friends of the Third Bird Order continue their investigations into experimental protocols of Practical Aesthesis and various tactics for Sustained Attention. The Attention Lab is part guerrilla seminar and part meditative/ kinetic practicum. A discipline of the senses is pursued; the conditions of attention are investigated. Beginning with available traditions and protocols of the so-called "Birds," our aim will be to develop and test new durational practices of attention. 
 
SEPTEMBER 
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. We will take Field trips to second-hand bookstores, collecting more books. Silent periods of reading grow into evening socials, library games, and authors' performances in the height of autumn. 

mildredslane@gmail.com

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