Current and Upcoming
Note that we will be closed for installation April 19 to May 2, reopening Friday, May 3 with the next part of Near Dwellers, our year long series about animal-human relationships: Near Dwellers as Urbanites. Saturday May 4, 2024 ZOOM DISCUSSION with scholar JANE DESMOND and the artists in NEAR DWELLERS AS CREATIVE COLLABORATORS, R. K. Burke, and J. Andreyev 1pm Eastern Connect via Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89008075379 Librarian 12 : Robert Good: 100% are Books October 28 – April 13, 2024 RECEPTION/CLOSING Saturday April 13, 2024 11am - 4pm We're excited to announce the latest iteration of our ongoing series Summer Library, in which invited artists and thinkers work with the collections of our Little Free Library project. Robert is our first remote librarian. His work is installed at both of our sites: at Street Road's main space and at our Little Free Library 19330. --- Summer 2023 – Summer 2024 NEAR DWELLERS, a year-long, multi-part project hosted by The Tree Museum and Street Road that explores understandings of the human/animal divide: programming includes exhibitions, new scholarship, and a public participation component, opening up new and multi-faceted ways of understanding animals and our relationships with them. HOURS:
Street Road is currently open Fridays and Saturdays, 11am-3pm, and by appointment. The Little Free Library 19330 is currently open on Mondays & Wednesdays 6-9p, Thursdays 12-4p, Fridays & Saturday 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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