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Fire Season October 12, 2024 – January 17, 2025 Fire Season brings together artists attuned to the intimate relationship between death and life and who embrace fire as an essential element in this process of renewal; after a forest burns it supports a vast diversity of life. They contend with our world’s present imbalance and excess of fire and offer material and spiritual perspectives on the planet’s eventual rebirth into its next unfathomable formation. Narendra Haynes’ work uses synthetic and processed construction materials to create landscapes from deliberate burnings. This work is in conversation with Ye Qin Zhu’s relief paintings that breathe new life into discarded materials and mundane objects by weaving them into broader mythological scenes of creation. Alex Tatarsky’s accompanying performance program Pining Away offers an embodied, immersive, and informative experience of the woods as a space of life, death, and rebirth. As MC, Tatarsky will lead us on a journey from the gallery to the forest, playing with the idea of a host as an ecological concept, such as how a dead tree becomes host to many animals, or a log becomes host to fungi. They will invite Marguerite Angelica Monique Hemmings and lichen-lover David Guzman to take the forest floor through an experimental composition of dance, poetry, music, and theater. Fire Season is co-curated by Kristina Murray and Ilya Blender. Fire Season and Pining Away: Eco-Readings Outdoors have been made possible by a grant from the Joseph Robert Foundation. https://schuylkillcenter.org/environmental-art/current-exhibition/

Seed Stories: A Celebration of Land-based Creators Seed Stories brings together several of Philadelphia’s seedkeepers to share the artistic practices they tend to alongside their gardens. Seedkeeping, a practice of growing plants for seed harvesting, sustains genetic biodiversity and carries forward ancestral wisdom, ensuring the legacy of these plants and their communities for future generations. These artists preserve, craft, and build through a variety of mediums, including ceramics, embroidery, cyanotypes, paintings, and printmaking. Seedkeepers are more than gardeners; they are stewards of the future. Through their artistic and land practices, they honor ancestral traditions, cultivate resilience, and sow the seeds of connection - https://www.schuylkillcenter.org/news/event/seed-stories-opening-exhibition/

Discover 'The Bird Ethic,' an outdoor art exhibition by Susan Hagan, showcased along Widener Trail at the Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education, in Philadelphia, PA USA. These thought-provoking sculptures, including 'Tea Party with Harriet Hemmenway (1896)' and 'Birdhouses,' convey vital messages about human impact on bird populations. Learn more about this exhibition at the Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education - https://www.schuylkillcenter.org/

Walking the Edge, is a community art exhibit inspired by the city’s borders. Curated by and in collaboration with Jacques-Jean Tiziou of “Walk Around Philadelphia“, the Schuylkill Center’s fourth bi-annual community exhibition embraces walking as a practice in contemporary art production that reflects on our interconnectedness with nature. more info: https://www.schuylkillcenter.org/art/?ha_exhibit=walking-the-edge

The preservation of the 24-acres Boys Scout Tract is celebrated during a Vine-cutting ceremony at the Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education, in the Upper Roxborough section of Philadelphia, PA on September 13, 2023.