Community Projects
Art on the Farm: The Sandywoods Artists Cooperative
Art on the Farm's mission is to create a welcoming community for artists of all ages, mediums, and experience. They aim to offer exhibits, community events, and educational experiences for both adults and children. Since the Sandywoods Gallery Cooperative was established in February 2011, they have gone through many changes. In October 2012, the gallery space on Muse Way in Tiverton was closed, and they become a gallery without walls. Joe Bossom and Mika Seeger invited them to hold an exhibition and art sale at their farm last December. This event, Art on the Farm, was so successful that they decided to continue with pop–up exhibitions, workshops, and art sales. Now the studio and farm of Mika Seeger and Joe Bossom in Tiverton, RI is their home base.
The Amazing Trash City- Sandywoods Farm, Tiverton, RI
In 2011, children anf thier families gathered at Sandywoods Farm during April vacation to create a city made entirely from recycled materials. From 2 year olds to senior citizens everyone helped to create this cooperative building project. Some vetran builders from New Your City came to help out in building a city from pure imagination and duct tape.
New Your City, Fox Point Community Library, Providence, RI
In 2007, artist Jean Cozzens and Ann Schattle led the exciting building project “New Your City." Children, schools, community groups, and adults from across the state came to participate in the creation of a city made from recycling materials.
After the success of the first city, Ann Schattle, the Children's Specialist, wanted to bring the cooperative building project back to the library.
In April of 2011, in collaboration with Mary Geisser, a local artist and teacher, the city returned to the Fox Point Community Library with funding from the Friends Group of the library. The project was open to children, adults, and families of all ages. Classes from Vartan Gregorian Elementary school also came to help create the city from junk and found objects. The city was build during 2 weeks in April and remained on display in the Library for several weeks.
You can purchase a copy of a book about New Your City on Blurb. All proceeds go to funding future cities and more free arts projects for children.
Pages of Possibility, Fox Point Community Library, Providence, RI
In 2010, I recieved a project grant from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts to conduct a eries of bookmaking workshops at the Fox Point Community Library. For a month, children made paste paper, accordian books, pop up books, as well as wrote and illustrated several of thier own literary works of art. The project culminated with 2 exhibitions, one at the library and another at AS220's Project Space, where the children's books were on display in the Reading Room Gallery for a month.
