ecoartspace and Urban Soils Institute at Swale House
May 16-October 25, 2026
ecoartspace residencies and exhibitions schedule
- May 16: ecoartspace Soil Shroud Room launch, 1pm (up through October with monthly soil textile workshops)
- June 1–June 14: Aviva Rahmani Tidal Flushing residency
- June 15–June 21: Elisabeth Condon Liquid Paper exhibition and residency
- June 15–June 21: Melinda K. Santiago Horizons Below exhibition
- June 22–July 5: The Soil Factory (Ithaca) exhibition and residency
- July 6–July 12: Elizabeth McAlpin Unearthed exhibition (and treasure hunt)
- July 6–July 19: Stephanie Rothenberg Metabolic Fairy Tales exhibition and residency (with experimental salt water antenna)
- July 20–July 26: Maria Patricia Tinajero Wormfarm Institute: Salk Market Report archive exhibition (with a series of live radio broadcasts)
- July 20–August 23: Marina Heron Tsaplina residency (weaving workshops)
- July 27–August 23: Elie Porter Trubert Call and Response exhibition
- July 27–August 23: Katrina Bello Expansion exhibition
- August 24–September 13: Kosmologym (Walker Tufts) exhibition
- August 31–Sepember 20: Priscilla Stadler Institute for Creative Research exhibition and residency
- September 21–September 27: Marina Heron Tsaplina Soil: Field Of Awareness exhibition
- September 28–October 25: Lauren Bon + Betsy Damon + Mary Mattingly exhibition and residency
Soil Shroud Room - program schedule
The Soil Shroud Room, presented by ecoartspace, brings together textiles previously submerged in soils from around the world as an artistic expression of the minerals and microorganisms that connect us with ancestral lands. Since 2023, over thirty artists have participated in the online Soil Dialogues, where the concept of burying and transforming textiles was simultaneously initiated in England, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Oman, Canada, Australia and the US.
This summer, visitors to Swale House are invited to contribute to this international collaborative work, to bury, clean, paint, print, embroider, and stitch together soil textiles into an ever-growing collective shroud.
On view within the space in various stages of progress, textiles will hang from clotheslines. These soil expressions will be sewn together during monthly programs. If you would like to participate, we invite you to bury a textile in the nearby garden on Governors Island or in your backyard.
We will be holding monthly Zoom events where you can receive instructions if you would like to participate from afar (email info@ecoartspace.org).
Saturday, May 16, 1-2pm
Patricia Watts will give a public introduction to the Soil Shroud Room outlining the events and outcomes leading up to this installation, and review historical soil artists as she has written about in the recent ecoartspace publication Soils Turn
Saturday, June 20, 2-4pm
Lauren Alyssa Bierly and Melinda K. Santiago, learn the textile burial process and how to clean exhumed textiles
Saturday, July 11, 2-3pm
From Assembling to Witnessing talk with Dr. Alexandra R. Toland, exploring different practices of making work with and about soils as featured in the book Soils Turn, with Pamela Casper who will describe her soil textile process
Friday, July 24, Noon
“What Resurfaces: Decomposition, Art, and the Ethics of Becoming Soil,” is a reading on decomposition by Maria Patrica Tinajero, along with textile burials
Friday, July 31, 5-7:30pm
Threading the Line sewing session with Saskia Jorda, an evening of stitching and connecting, through soils, cloth and thread
Friday, August 7, 6-8pm
Textile Burial and Crip Stitch Sewing Workshop with Marina Heron Tsaplina, leave visible scars on cloth to honor disabled soils harmed by industrial extraction
Saturday, August 8, 2-4pm
Animated Soil Workshop with Cindy Stockton Moore, explore underground motion through hands-on animation techniques
Saturday, September 19, 12:30-3pm
Gathering Stitches with Priscilla Stadler, come celebrate and help connect textile pieces buried and collected from earth’s diverse ecosystems
Artists who have contributed to date: Alexandra Toland, Allie Horick, Andrea Bersaglieri (image above), Anne Yoncha, Annette Nykiel, Ashton Phillips, Carole Milon, Cassandra Tytler, Clare Thomas, Christopher Lin, Cindy Stockton Moore, Deanna Pindell, Deb Gloeckler, Erin Wiersma, Evgenia Emets, Grace Grothaus, Helen Elizabeth, Jill Price, Jo Pearl, Jwan Ibbini, Kathryn Maguire, Kim Norton, Kim V. Goldsmith, Lauren Bon + Metabolic Studio, Maru Garcia, Pamela Casper, Perdita Phillips, Priscilla Stadler, Renata Buziak, Rhonda Janke, Ruth Wallen, Samantha Passaniti, Saskia Jorda, Stephanie Garon, Susana Soares Pinto, Valerie Constantino add your name here
