From Gallery to Garden

The Art Garden refuses to exist in isolation. Rather, the Art Garden pushes back against the sterile white wall gallery approach to the displaying of artwork. The gallery becomes expansive and exists amongst the garden, inviting change from the land, forces, and all subjects within the garden to shape the art within.

The walls are not white; they are built from the living branches and roots and weeds that change and intertwine. They breathe when we breathe, create places for us to rest away from the sun, and they clear new pathways of knowing as we tend to each other.

things we make hold memory, the way bones hold the body together.

This place is a studio, community center, and classroom all in one. Rather than a space exclusive to those that have the time and money, being in the studio becomes synonymous with living everyday life.

There are tables and open space for people to paint, sew, carve, weave, build, or experiment with different materials. Technology is integrated into this space, as tools for generative artmaking.

Anyone can use the space.
There’s no gatekeeping, no “elite art world,” and no competition for status.
It’s about sharing knowledge and making things together. The people will host workshops, skill-sharing, political meetings, or celebrations.

The space also has areas to rest, nap, pray, talk, or get emotional support. It recognizes that art and community are connected, and that people need physical and emotional space to do creative work.

The artwork will change. They welcome the cycles of decay and regeneration as a form of artmaking. They allow for sculptures to fertilize the soil they sit upon. The byproducts become nutrients used to grow and tend for those that live amongst.



The sculpture garden is a classroom. The plants that populate the garden ask us to sit under the shadow of their leaves and teach us how to hold ourselves and each other.



walking through the space feels physical:

underfoot, rough bark on walls, shadows from leaves, warm stones on the ground.

these sculptures may even glow when you get close.

They use algae that give off a soft light, shifting between blue and green, like tidal water at night.