Monday October 14th 2019 , 11 am to 5 pm

SWALE House (Building 15) Nolan Park on Governor's Island, NY 10004

Join us for workshops at SWALE house in Nolan Park on Governor’s Island: home to our Art Extension Service Project Soils Initiative (art and soils residency and project development network)Here we experiment, encourage, and forge new conversations and collaborations-with art and science working together to probe, explore, and challenge what we know and don’t know about our world in its intrinsic relationships through soils.Bring your ideas, question, curiosity to these workshops:

11am-12:30pm:

Soil As Art Seminar and Hands-on workshop with professor and artist, Gerd Wessolek from TU Berlin, co-editor of Field to Palette

Gerd Wessolek a Professor and Chair of the Soil Protection Group at the Technische Universität in Berlin, Germany. His research focuses on urban soil physics and urban hydrology. Initiating “SoilArt” activities, he tries to give soils and soil science a broader exposure to the wider community through paintings, presentations, books, movies, exhibitions, and calendars.

1 - 2:30pm:

Porch Chat with scientist Ed Landa and WATERWASH for a Swimmable Bronx River, artist Lillian Ball, whose work is part of Field to Palette. The porch chat will focus on WATERWASH Bronx River, an award winning constructed wetland in the Soundview neighborhood of the Bronx. The project was designed and overseen by artist Lillian Ball. Environments such as these can showcase the varied and exciting processes that occur in the soil.

3 - 4:30pm:

Your soils of the city workshop: Join us to explore the ground-breaking NYC Reconnaissance Soil Survey with project leader Richard K Shaw (State soil scientist, USDA-NRCS NJ/NY, cofounder of USI) and artist Margaret Boozer (Director of USI Art Extension Service). Their their collaborative project, the Urban Soils Room at Governors Island, offers an opportunity to look deeply into the soils we are standing on. We will share what we are learning about the history recorded by Laguardia soil on Governors Island. Plus, we’ll investigate RSS soils on the new and improved Soil Web app, and learn more about this valuable tool.

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This is a free event!

Donations are encouraged!

For more information: https://usi.nyc/media-events/soils-fest-weekend-2019