In conjunction with the exhibition “Jessica Farrell: The Wilderness Diary” Bushel hosted this online event on November 9, 2021 to discuss the mental health crisis in rural communities, particularly in Delaware County, NY. [NOTE: Please excuse the camera snafu at six:forty-five; video resumes in one minute.]
The panelists: artist and mental-health advocate JESSICA FARRELL (www.jessicafarrell.com), Schoharie County peer specialist JASON PADEN (@Jase.Media), Syracuse–based advocate GARRETT SMITH (www.cleanslateny.org), Oneonta artist and student ARIANNA ILOWIT, and president of NAMI local chapter BILL HAYES (nami.org). Moderated by Mina Takahashi, working collective member, Bushel Collective, Delhi, NY (www.bushelcollective.org).
On October 23, 2020, Richard Barlow and Anne Elizabeth Moore recorded this conversation about Barlow’s large-scale chalk drawing for the exhibition Frozen Warnings. Original event announcement here.
Documentation by Nick George of the collaborative installation by Leah Frankel and Iris Cushing, INTERTEXTURE: WEAVE AND WORD. Including a reading by Iris Cushing. Filmed on December 20, 2020
This was recorded on August 3, 2019, when McCarry and Hunter read work and discussed DIY publishing in conjunction with the exhibition All the Way Around It, which featured books from McCarry’s Guillotine Press, for which Hunter is an author.
This video documents the Juneteenth edition of first_friday Open Mic held via Zoom on June 6, 2020, with readings and talks by Cheryl Clarke, Alex Egan and Iris Cushing, hosted by D. Marcus Johnson.
In May 2020, as one of several fundraisers to support local efforts to help Delaware County residents cope with the emergence of the COVID-19 epidemic, we invited nearly 90 artists to donate mail art to contributors participating in Mail Art Roulette. Together, we raised over $6,200, which was distributed to food banks in Walton, Delhi, Margaretville, Stamford, and Andes/Bovina, as well as to Star Route Farm and The 607 CSA to support produce and farm goods going to local food bank. You can see some of the wonderful mail art that was sent to donors in the slideshow above.
This video was recorded on June 16, 2019. Banks and Green shared work after their two-day ‘Radical Conjuring’ workshop. Read more about the authors and the workshop here.
Bushel dedicated the April 2020 edition of first_friday to raise funds for our local hospital first responders as they take on the COVID-19 pandemic. The benefit was hosted by Bushel’s own D. Marcus Johnson and featured streaming live musical performances by: Jane Cramer The Bones of J.R. Jones Zach Layton (Jonathan Kane’s February) Peg Simone (Jonathan Kane’s February) Catherine McRae Kelli Cain & Brian Crabtree.
This concert, scheduled for March 13, 2020, was pre-recorded rather than performed live due to concerns over COVID19/Coronavirus. Videos for all three sets are below.
