Artists in the Garden
Collective artists Emily Kirby and Hyla Nemy transplanting coreopsis
Gardening Collective
Gallery Garden
Summer 2024
Gardeners: Maddi Andrews, Elizabeth Peprah-Asare, Sheryn Basham, Peggy Fussell, Jill Glatt, Lee Jones, Emily Kirby, Naomi Lee, Saroya Manoharan, Hyla Nemy, Martha Steele
Collectively-led, collaborative garden project where artists work together to plant, grow, tend to, and harvest plants for their artistic practices and creative pursuits. Artists in the Garden is a small collective featuring 11 local artists creating and cultivating in a small garden plot just outside Union Gallery.
ABOUT THE COLLECTIVE
Artists in the Garden is a self-guided, collaborative garden collective with support from Union Gallery. Our intention for this garden-based collective is to spark knowledge sharing, social exchange, and arts-based activities. Artists will work together over the summer to plant, grow, tend to, and harvest plants for their artistic practices and creative pursuits, with the opportunity to collaborate with each other in open-ended ways. After a group conversation, the artists have decided they’re interested in engaging with native species who act as companions with unlimited outcomes like: seed collection and sharing; observing relationships between plants, insects, and animals; growing dye plants for textiles, cyanotyping, and anthotyping; developing more sustainable practices with weaving, animation, and sculpture; as well as gardening as part of their ecological art practice. The Artists in the Garden are the garden’s care takers.
Collective artist Martha Steele weeding away invasive plants and seeding a row of sunflowers
THANKS AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The Artists in the Garden would like to thank Sandra Jass and The Indigenous Food Sovereignty Garden for providing gardening tool sets and resources. The Indigenous Food Sovereignty Garden was established in 2021 and is an Indigenous-led expression of community resilience. Folks are welcome to donate to their All Our Relations Land Trust.