How does our relationship with our surroundings influence our perceptions and imaginations? 

What calls out to us for our attention? 

In this hour-long workshop, participants will concentrate on interacting with a particular physical space in the Redwood forest near Pond Farm. Using various natural and art-oriented materials, movement, and meditation, we’ll create and reflect on our link to the non-human world as we reevaluate the ground we stand on, physically and ethically.

(Please bring a bottle of water, a notebook, and a pen, wear comfortable clothes, and walking shoes, and come with an open mind, to participate, learn from each other, and collaborate)

Reservations are required.

Ashwini Bhat, an artist born in southern India, currently lives and works in the Bay Area, California. Coming from a background in literature and classical Indian dance, she now works at the intersection of sculpture, ceramics, installation, and performance. She often introduces radical but somehow familiar forms to suggest complex interplay between the landscape, the human, and the non-human.

Bhat is a recipient of the Howard Foundation Award for Sculpture, Pond Farm Julia Terr Fellowship (BIPOC Artists), and the McKnight Foundation Residency Fellowship. Her work has been exhibited nationally & internationally and can be seen in collections at the Newport Art Museum, USA; Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park, Japan; FuLe International Ceramic Art Museum, China; the Watson Institute at Brown University, USA; New Bedford Historical Society, USA; Daugavpils Mark Rothko Centre, Latvia, and in many private collections.

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