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 Brooklyn Rail in conversation with Mildreds Lane

Mildred’s Lane

Featuring J. Morgan Puett, Mark Dion, David Brooks, Alastair Gordon, Barbara Bourland, and Thyrza Nichols Goodeve

Ambassador of entanglement J. Morgan Puett is joined by Mark Dion, David Brooks, Alastair Gordon, Barbara Bourland, and Thyrza Nichols Goodeve for a conversation on Mildred’s Lane. We conclude with a poetry reading by Patrycja Humienik.

In this talk

Read more about Mildred’s Lane on their website »

What is Mildred’s Lane?

J. Morgan Puett

Trans-disciplinary creative producer J. Morgan Puett works with installation, clothing and furniture design, architecture, film, photography, and more, rearranging these intersections by applying conceptual tools including research-based methods in history, biology, new economies, design, textiles, and collaboration. Puett is the architect of The Mildred’s Lane Project, which continues to forge new ground citing that being is a profoundly social and political practice. Puett has received several awards, including the Magdalena Abakanowicz Arts and Culture (2019), the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (2016), the Pollock-Krasner Foundation (2016), among many others.

More on J. Morgan Puett

• jmorganpuett.com

• @ jmorganpuett

Mark Dion

Artist Mark Dion’s work examines the way dominant ideologies and public institutions shape our understandings of history, knowledge, and the natural world. The job of the artist, he says, is to go against the grain of dominant culture, to challenge perception and convention. Appropriating archaeological, field ecology and other scientific methods of collecting, ordering, and exhibiting objects, Dion creates works that question the distinctions between ‘objective’ (‘rational’) scientific methods and ‘subjective’ (‘irrational’) influences. Dions holds a BFA and an honorary doctorate from the University of Hartford School of Art, Connecticut. He is a cofounder and co-director of Mildred’s Lane. He was born in New Bedford, MA in 1961.

David Brooks

Artist David Brooks' work considers the relationship between the individual and the built environment, considering how cultural concerns cannot be divorced from the natural world while questioning the terms under which nature is perceived and utilized. He has exhibited at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, CT; the Dallas Contemporary; Tang Museum, NY; Nouveau Musée National de Monaco; Sculpture Center, NYC; The Visual Arts Center, Austin; Nevada Museum of Art; and MoMA/PS1, among others. He is the recipient of several prestigious awards and grants including the Rome Prize, grants from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, the Coypu Foundation, and a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship. Born in Brazil, Indiana, he currently lives and works between New York City and New Orleans.

Barbara Bourland

Writer Barbara Bourland is the author of two previous novels and an avid Mildred’s Lane Bibliophant. Her third novel The Force of Such Beauty is forthcoming from Dutton in Summer 2022. She lives and works in Baltimore, MD.

Alastair Gordon

Critic, curator, artist, and cultural historian Alastair Gordon has covered art, architecture, and the environment for the New York Times for more than twenty years and is Contributing Editor on design for the Wall Street Journal Magazine. His essays have been published in Architectural Digest, Vanity Fair, Le Monde, and others. He is the author of Weekend Utopia: Modern Living in the Hamptons(Princeton Architectural Press 2001), Naked Airport: A Cultural History of the World’s Most Revolutionary Structure (University of Chicago Press 2004), and Spaced Out: Radical Environments of the Psychedelic Sixties (Rizzoli 2008). In 2016, he launched Poetics of Place, a critical writing program at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design.

Thyrza Nichols Goodeve

Writer, editor, artist, and interviewer Thyrza Nichols Goodeve writes “with” rather than “on” contemporary art and artists. Her interests range across art as a “structure of feeling,” human/nonhuman animal ontologies, the aesthetics of wonder, the interview as essay, surrealist methodologies, and the metaphysics of technology. She has published widely on artists such as Ellen Gallagher, Tom Friedman, Hadieh Shafie, Joan Waltemath, among many others. She is the author of How Like A Leaf: A Conversation with Donna Haraway (1999) and is compiling her collected writings, No Wound Ever Speaks for Itself: Writing, Art, Vulnerability, Conversation, Attitude with a preface by Avital Ronell. She was Senior Art Editor at the Rail from 2017 to 2019 and is currently an Editor-at-Large.

In the Rail: Thyrza Nichols Goodeve

The Rail has a tradition of ending our conversations with a poem, and we’re fortunate to have Patrycja Humienik reading.

Daughter of Polish immigrants, Patrycja Humienik is a writer and performer based in Seattle, WA. She serves as Events Director for The Seventh Wave and works in the Office of Equity & Justice in Graduate Programs at the University of Washington. She was a recent semi-finalist for the 92Y Discovery Prize, and is working on her first book of poems, Anchor Baby.

More on Patrycja Humienik

• patrycjasara.com

• @jej_sen

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

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

MILDRED'S LANE / SESSIONS / 2021
Landscape / Democracy / Wellness /
in an age of Coronavirus Horror
Accepting Applications Now.

MAY/JUNE
May 17- ongoing
WORKSTYLING the WILD
Deborah Davidovitz, Donna Cleary, Sarah Doherty, Juliet Dunn, Jeffrey Jenkins, Joe Lerro, Barry Puett, Rachael Schmoker, Laura Silverman 
There is a sleeping, shady garden at Mildred's Lane. We let it go after several years; competing with varmints destroying our work is heartbreaking. Reclaiming it has taken several years, 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 for a vibrant community of flora, fauna, and creatures sharing and turning toward 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 gardens in the region. 
More, let's get down and dirty with daily events as we rebuild a garden of medicinal rhizomes, roots, flowers, and herbs; foraging-digging-rearranging-building-planting-swimming -- come workstyle the wild with us. 
 
JUNE 
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. 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 
July 5 through  25
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 
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. 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. 
 
AUGUST
August 10 through 30
OPEN SESSIONS
Wellness Retreat.

SEPTEMBER
September 7 through 27
BIBLIOPHANTICS
Featuring special author appearances to be announced.  
An intensive reading and archiving Retreat. Enchanting stays in the Mildred's Lane Library, with volumes to consume, quietly -- aloud -– socially– privately. We will take Field trips to local bookstores, collecting. Silent periods of reading grow into evening socials, plein-air parlor games, and authors' performances in the height of autumn. 
 
OCTOBER
An excellent time for Class programming, retreats, Group visits; contact us to organize your program and experience. 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. 
 
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ONGOING
Joe Lerro is a Resident-Artist-in-Complex(ity) and LAND Steward at Mildred's Lane. Joe will be leading several workshops throughout the spring and summer including soil preparation, composting, planting, and other fine arts of gardening.
 
Rachael Schmoker is a Resident-Artist-in-Complex(ity) and WELLness Steward at Mildred's Lane. She is founder of the practice, Bed-ga, (yoga motion suitable for the bedroom.) She defines this as slow-flow movement, deepening understanding of our bodies by listening to alignment. Gently moving into restorative postures using pillows and bolsters. Flow softly from mat to bed with soothing ease. 
Join in this innovative movement practice focused entirely on the tender relationship with your body. Relax in the comfort of your home or from beds in the landscape, while at the same time coming together as a community. 
 
Visiting-Resident-Artists-in-Complex(ity) to be announced later in spring.
Lists of Contributing Artists grow throughout the year, so check the website for updated lists for each session.
 
IMPORTANT NOTICE/ 
VACCINES or NEGATIVE COVID TEST REQUIRED TO ATTEND.
All sessions are scheduled subject to minute-by-minute pandemic guidelines. If by chance a session is cancelled due to these dangers, we will reschedule your residency accordingly.
 

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

young landscape #23 / Abby Lutz / Institute of Dress / Corset Vest /

The Mildred Complex(ity)/ A Guide to the Field 
37B Main Street / Narrowsburg, NY

young landscape #23  

and other earthly thneengs* 

Fundraiser Exhibition / 
 

Mark Dion / Carla Duarte / Gary Graham / Brooke Grant / Heather Greene / Jeffrey Jenkins / Daryl K / Abby Lutz / Garnett Puett / J. Morgan Puett / Rebecca Purcell / Gina Siepel / Allison Smith / Samiha Tasnim / Natalie Wilkin / Amy Yoes / Jim Zivic / and others. 

An Installation of Art-Work-and-Wear at The Mildred Complex(ity) project space. All proceeds help support artists during the age of Coronavirus and to benefit the future of Mildred's Lane! Please support by collecting.
 

*thneengs 
1. a term from the colorful lexicon of Mildred's Lane – naming objects that don't fit into the usual rigid categories of art, fashion, furnishings. 2. thneengs cross-pollinate into wares with multiple uses. Neologism of Mildred's Lane, inspired by 'The Lorax', a mid-20th-century Dr. Seuss fable about polluting textile industries; similar to 'thneeds,' thneengs signify environmentally, socially, and politically sensitive art-work-and-wares for the everyday.

Image: Abby Lutz / Institute of Dress / Corset Vest / Treated cotton canvas / one of a kind / one size / 
Contact / mildredslane@gmail.com

Open for Limited Viewing /  Thursday by appointment / Friday 12 - 6 / Saturday 11 - 5 / Sunday 12 - 4 

young landscape #23 / Brooke Grant / FIELD + STEEL / COWBOY COOKER

The Mildred Complex(ity)/ A Guide to the Field 

Reopening July 10, 2020 
37B Main Street
Narrowsburg, NY
TOWN FRIDAY

young landscape #23  

and other earthly thneengs* 
 

Mark Dion / Jorge Colombo / Brooke Grant / Heather Greene / Jeffrey Jenkins / Abby Lutz / J. Morgan Puett / Rebecca Purcell / Gina Siepel / Samiha Tasnim / Amy Yoes / Jim Zivic / and others. 

An Installation of Art-Work-and-Wear at The Mildred Complex(ity) project space. All proceeds help support artists during the age of Coronavirus and to benefit the future of Mildred's Lane! Please support by collecting.
 

*thneengs 
1. a term from colorful lexicon of Mildred's Lane naming objects that don't fit into the usual rigid categories of art, fashion, furnishings. 2. thneengs cross-pollinate into wares with multiple uses. Neologism of Mildred's Lane, inspired from The Lorax, a mid-20th-century Dr. Seuss fable about polluting textile industries; thneengs signify environmentally, socially, and politically sensitive art-work-and-wares for the everyday.

Image: Brooke Grant, FIELD +  STEEL / COWBOY COOKER with crate and tools / $1450.00
Or $1250.00 / without crate and extra tools.

young landscape #23 / J. Morgan Puett / ECOLOGY HANGER

The Mildred Complex(ity)/ A Guide to the Field 

Reopening July 10, 2020 
37B Main Street
Narrowsburg, NY
TOWN FRIDAY

young landscape #23  

and other earthly thneengs* 
 

Mark Dion / Jorge Colombo / Brooke Grant / Heather Greene / Jeffrey Jenkins / Abby Lutz / J. Morgan Puett / Rebecca Purcell / Gina Siepel / Samiha Tasnim / Amy Yoes / Jim Zivic / and others. 

An Installation of Art-Work-and-Wear at The Mildred Complex(ity) project space. All proceeds help support artists during the age of Coronavirus and to benefit the future of Mildred's Lane! Please support by collecting.
 

*thneengs 

1. a term from colorful lexicon of Mildred's Lane naming objects that don't fit into the usual rigid categories of art, fashion, furnishings. 2. thneengs cross-pollinate into wares with multiple uses. Neologism of Mildred's Lane, inspired from The Lorax, a mid-20th-century Dr. Seuss fable about polluting textile industries; slightly shifting the noun to thneengs to signify environmentally, socially, and politically sensitive art-work-and-wear.

Image: ECOLOGY HANGER, J. Morgan Puett 2018. $75.00