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Current and Upcoming
Street Road is currently open by appointment as we are busy at work to bring you our upcoming year-long series, Near Dwellers. Our regular Friday and Saturday hours, 11am-3pm, return this July. COMING UP at Street Road Summer 2023 - Summer 2024 Near Dwellers is a year-long, multi-part project hosted by The Tree Museum and Street Road Artists Space that will explore understandings of the human/animal divide: programming will include exhibitions, new scholarship, and public participation components, opening up new and multi-faceted ways of understanding animals and our relationships with them. This Summer, Near Dwellers launches with work by SLQS and Spirit of Saigon, filmed in Walthamstow Marshes, London. Summer and Fall 2023 We have exciting new libraries coming up in our ongoing series Summer Library, in which invited artists and thinkers work with the collections of our Little Free Library 19330. Further details will be announced soon. HOURS: Street Road is currently open by appointment as we are busy at work to bring you our upcoming year-long series, Near Dwellers. Our regular Friday and Saturday hours, 11am-3pm, return this July. The Little Free Library 19330 is currently open on Mondays 6-9p, Thursdays 12-4p, Fridays 10-2p, Saturdays 10-2p, and by appointment. We are currently seeking volunteers for the Library: email us if you would like to help out. The Little Free Library Boxes at both locations are open 24/7 and are refilled every few days. Please take or leave some books! |
About us: Developed as an evolution of a family real estate business, Street Road Artists' Space hosts projects that relate directly to the problematic, capital-driven activity which produced its possibility. Challenges to received wisdom about private property ownership, especially how this relates to social relationships, are the focus.
Located at the crossroads of Street Road and Gap Newport Pike (Routes 926 and 41), our name adopts the richly textured toponym by which we are located: etymologically 'Street Road' derives from the Roman ‘via strata’, or ‘paved road’, thus encoding histories of human-land intertwinings, particularly human impulses to map, posess, and constrain the earth. The 5-acre site comprises outdoor works, many ongoing, an exhibition space in a renovated 1930s cottage, and occasional projects in two other on-site buildings - an abandoned former mushroom house and an industrial pole barn. In an area that lies between rural farmland, Amish country, horse country, land preservation efforts, towns impoverished by big-box proliferation, and encroaching suburbanization growing out from the cities of Philadelphia, Wilmington and Lancaster, Street Road is a laboratory for the consideration of humans’ multiplicitous relationships with land - past, current and future. Street Road's archive of area real estate transactions, 1970s - early 2000s.
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