Symbiocene Era: Artists Envision Environmental Symbiosis is an exhibition and workshop series curated by multimedia artist, activist and educator Kathleen Sweeney in collaboration with eco-artists living in the Catskills watershed of New York State at The Bushel Collective, Delhi, NY. 

A public opening for the exhibition on October 5, 2024 will include a celebratory reading series.

The show, which runs October 5-November 4, 2024 will include performances, workshops, and radio programming.

“Symbiocene” takes its root from “Symbiosis,” or ‘living together’ to co-create and envision a world of mutual respect for all living beings, beyond the human-centrism of the Anthropocene Era. The exhibition includes works by artists deeply engaged with the natural world as makers, activists and solution-makers intent on expanding their community role to share storytelling, artisanal skills and creativity in the quest for symbiotic planetary existence.

The Symbiocene Era exhibition features the work of multicultural painters, storytellers, artisans, interdisciplinary artists, found object sculptors, photographers, and videographers who inhabit the woodlands and waterways of the Catskills in New York State.

These artists, solutionists, ecoartivists and changemakers are integrating creative practices into deeply engaged environmental awareness, expanding what it means to be responsible creators. This includes questioning their own carbon footprints through creative reuse and art material sourcing while moving out of the studio into community to help co-create alternative visionary narratives beyond dystopia and despair.

The exhibition concept focuses on envisioning a world of collaboration with nature in all aspects of creative revisioning of our relationship to diversity, honoring our homeland, and expanding alliances to protect the ecosystems of the Catskills and beyond.

Exhibiting artists include: Sarah Bachinger, Susie Sparrow Bellamy, Toni Brogan, Sharon Horvath, Christina Hunt Wood, Emily Johnston, Robin Kahn, Rachel Owens, Heather Phelps-Lipton, Christie Scheele, Kathleen Sweeney,

For further information, contact:

Kathleen Sweeney, curator

sweeneyk@newschool.edu

Bushel Collective

Main Street, Delhi, NY

info@bushelcollective.org