[off-site workshop] The Vertical Path, led by Jenna Spevack

On the occasion of the current exhibition “Symbiocene Era: Mycelium, Soils and Roots,” participating artist Jenna Spevack will lead visitors on an experiential walk. Participants will be invited to move through the landscape as through a body of a tree, from the dark roots of the forest to the open crown of the sky. Each stop along the path corresponds with a point of attention: forest floor, distant pond, open field, towering evergreens, bubbling stream, and finally a wetland willow rising like a quiet cathedral. A place-based conversation and attunement to the physical and spiritual body, this walk is a way to remember that we, like the mycelium beneath us, are threaded through it all.

The walk takes place in Andes. Address will be shared upon registration.

$5 to attend with advance registration here.

Jenna Spevack is an artist (MFA RISD, BFA SUNY Buffalo), designer, and educator (Professor of Cultural Design at City Tech/CUNY). Her grant-funded work has been shown internationally with residences at MacDowell, Governor’s Island and Provincetown Fine Arts Works Space. She uses interactive, participatory, and social practices to explore how relationships with nature, simulated and real, can help to rekindle a sense of awe and a deeper connectedness to the natural world – and ourselves. View her work at jennaspevack.com.

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This workshop and the exhibition “Symbiocene Era: Mycelium, Soils and Roots” are funded in part by a Community Grant from Delaware County Arts Council, administered by Roxbury Arts Group.