Dawn Roe Community Workshop

Join artist in residence Dawn Roe for a community workshop:

Saturday, May 29th | 1-4PM
Marking Time With(in) the Water workshop
Rhododendron Creek in West Asheville Park

The public programs associated with the artist’s residency will engage these questions through a site-responsive community workshop held along the waters flowing through Rhododendron Creek in West Asheville Park scheduled for May 29th from 1 to 4 p.m. Part of an ongoing series of Marking Time With(in) the Water workshops, this action will offer space for neighbors to come into relation with their freshwater spaces, combining careful observation with a collective artmaking process recording imprints of land, water, and human interactions over prolonged moments in time. Participants will meet in the reserved picnic shelter in the park.

Deeply informed by the sharing communities generated through the ongoing work of environmental humanities researcher, Dr. Astrida Neimanis, projects and events will engage with Astrida’s description of hydrofeminism as “an action concept” that begins with “[u]nderstanding our own human bodies as bodies of water, [inviting] us into a different kind of relation to other bodies of water, and a feminism of relation. Hydrofeminism asks: if we are all bodies of water, what does this connect us to? What can we give, and what do we owe?”

Copies of each print will become part of a collective archive of our “hydrocommons” – a term used by Astrida Neimanis to describe the space where embodied human-water relations occur. Workshops participants can pick up washed and dried prints at the closing event on June 6th at Lamplight between 1 and 7 p.m.