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    • Summer Library, Librarian 1 – Angella Meanix
    • Summer Library, Librarian 2 – Laura Florence
    • Summer Library, Librarian 3 – Rachel Eng
    • Summer Library, Librarian 4 – Maria Möller
    • Summer Library, Librarian 5 – Mary Tasillo
    • Summer Library, Librarian 6 – Georgie Devereux
    • Summer Library 2021 closing event - The Anti-Anthropocene Bonfire Bookburning
    • Summer Library, Librarian 7 – Rhonda Ike
    • Summer Library, Librarian 8 – Logan Cryer
    • Summer Library, Librarian 9 – Maya Wasileski
  • Clouded Title
    • Clouded Title 2018
    • Clouded Title 2019
    • Clouded Title 2020/21 - Conversations
  • Past
    • 2022
      • Twentysix Wawa Stores
      • Winter Library
      • The Book of Ashes
    • 2021
      • Composting Hegel
      • Street Road Rocks at 10&41
      • Chain mail for bad communicators
      • BABE 2021
    • 2020
      • Castor
      • Dutchirican
    • 2019
      • Roots of Resistance
      • Seven Million Acres: Pride of place
      • LFL Exhibitions: Libbie Sofer, Transported
      • Emily Manko | Now, Then, When
      • Julia Hardman: if they're behind you they go too fast; if they're in front of you they go too slow
      • Summer 2019 Conversations
    • 2018
      • Walking Forward – Looking Back: Carol Maurer
    • 2017
      • Ceramic Sanctuary
      • Homestead: a permaculture project, StellaLou Farm (7/6 to 9/16/2017)
      • Shared Ground: Dennis Santella, Nicholas Santella and Anthony Santella, May-June 2017
      • back, forth: Street Road at 5 years 11/2016-4/2017
        • Anchor 1: Par Exemple, Ebenthal
        • Anchor 2: Homma Meridian
        • Anchor 3: The road out of town, McMurdo Sound
        • Anchor 4: Play Under’ from ‘Underneath
        • Anchor 5: Leni Lenape arrowhead collection
        • Anchor 6 : Open Wall
        • Anchor 7: Supervene Forest
        • Anchor 8: Chalfant
        • Anchor 9: Soviet Apartment Bloc, Tblisi, Georgia
        • Anchor 10 : Enskyment
      • #J20 (1/20/2017)
    • 2016
      • 24 Hour Liminal: Maria Möller (August-October 2016)
      • 7000 Acres: a residents' history of Londonderry Township (May 21-July 15, 2016)
      • The Tent of Casually Observed Phenologies (July 16, 2016)
      • Julia Dooley and Dr. Zoe Courville sci-art student project (4/22-23/16)
      • Maxim D. Shrayer and Christianna Hannum Miller (4/9/2016)
      • Fadi Sultagi's The Sanctuary of Bel, Palmyra (to 4/15/16)
      • Susan Marie Brundage and David A. Parker at Street Road and at The Christiana Motel (to 4/15/16)
      • Sasha Boyle
    • 2015
      • The Road Less Traveled, Danny Aldred
      • Sailing Stones (2015)
        • Julia Dooley: Images from the Bottom of the World and CryoZen Garden
        • José Luis Avila: hOMe
        • Kaori Homma: Meridian Stone
        • Egidija Ciricate: About Stones
        • L.A.N.D.
      • Crisis Farm: Seed to Table by Maryann Worrell and Doug Mott (2015)
      • Suburban Landscapes: Brian Richmond (2015)
    • 2014
      • Enskyment, by David A. Parker
      • Arterial Motives
        • Arterial Motives Exhibition
        • Arterial Motives Blog
      • Garage and Octorara Student Exhibition
      • Maxim D. Shrayer - Leaving Russia
    • 2013
      • Proposals of Belonging
      • Lost Highway 41 Revisited Blues (2013)
    • 2012
      • Compass (2012)
      • Parallax (2012)
    • 2011
      • The Lay of the Land (2011)
  • Ongoing
    • The Dust: American Matter
    • Street Road Reading Group
    • Reigning Heads, Luyi Wang
    • Homma Meridian, by Kaori Homma
    • Folly by Anthony, Dennis, and Nicholas Santella
    • Street Road Rocks
    • Kaori Homma: Meridian Stone
    • unTOLLed Stories, Emily Artinian & Felise Luchansky
      • unTOLLed Stories
      • unTOLLed stories BLOG
    • Supervene Forest, Adrian Barron
    • Bees - Stella Lou Farm
    • Heterotopia West, Adrian Barron
    • The Post Anthropocene Compost
  • Blogs
    • Blog: Winter 2016/17
    • Blog 2011-2016
    • T.S.W.H.
  • Little Free Library
    • Book Club
    • Little Free Library Blog
  • Home
  • Current/Upcoming
    • Summer Library, Librarian 10 – Christopher Murray
    • Un-Boxing
    • May the Neotropical Arise — Zulu Padilla
  • Street Road Press
  • Summer Library
    • Summer Library, Librarian 1 – Angella Meanix
    • Summer Library, Librarian 2 – Laura Florence
    • Summer Library, Librarian 3 – Rachel Eng
    • Summer Library, Librarian 4 – Maria Möller
    • Summer Library, Librarian 5 – Mary Tasillo
    • Summer Library, Librarian 6 – Georgie Devereux
    • Summer Library 2021 closing event - The Anti-Anthropocene Bonfire Bookburning
    • Summer Library, Librarian 7 – Rhonda Ike
    • Summer Library, Librarian 8 – Logan Cryer
    • Summer Library, Librarian 9 – Maya Wasileski
  • Clouded Title
    • Clouded Title 2018
    • Clouded Title 2019
    • Clouded Title 2020/21 - Conversations
  • Past
    • 2022
      • Twentysix Wawa Stores
      • Winter Library
      • The Book of Ashes
    • 2021
      • Composting Hegel
      • Street Road Rocks at 10&41
      • Chain mail for bad communicators
      • BABE 2021
    • 2020
      • Castor
      • Dutchirican
    • 2019
      • Roots of Resistance
      • Seven Million Acres: Pride of place
      • LFL Exhibitions: Libbie Sofer, Transported
      • Emily Manko | Now, Then, When
      • Julia Hardman: if they're behind you they go too fast; if they're in front of you they go too slow
      • Summer 2019 Conversations
    • 2018
      • Walking Forward – Looking Back: Carol Maurer
    • 2017
      • Ceramic Sanctuary
      • Homestead: a permaculture project, StellaLou Farm (7/6 to 9/16/2017)
      • Shared Ground: Dennis Santella, Nicholas Santella and Anthony Santella, May-June 2017
      • back, forth: Street Road at 5 years 11/2016-4/2017
        • Anchor 1: Par Exemple, Ebenthal
        • Anchor 2: Homma Meridian
        • Anchor 3: The road out of town, McMurdo Sound
        • Anchor 4: Play Under’ from ‘Underneath
        • Anchor 5: Leni Lenape arrowhead collection
        • Anchor 6 : Open Wall
        • Anchor 7: Supervene Forest
        • Anchor 8: Chalfant
        • Anchor 9: Soviet Apartment Bloc, Tblisi, Georgia
        • Anchor 10 : Enskyment
      • #J20 (1/20/2017)
    • 2016
      • 24 Hour Liminal: Maria Möller (August-October 2016)
      • 7000 Acres: a residents' history of Londonderry Township (May 21-July 15, 2016)
      • The Tent of Casually Observed Phenologies (July 16, 2016)
      • Julia Dooley and Dr. Zoe Courville sci-art student project (4/22-23/16)
      • Maxim D. Shrayer and Christianna Hannum Miller (4/9/2016)
      • Fadi Sultagi's The Sanctuary of Bel, Palmyra (to 4/15/16)
      • Susan Marie Brundage and David A. Parker at Street Road and at The Christiana Motel (to 4/15/16)
      • Sasha Boyle
    • 2015
      • The Road Less Traveled, Danny Aldred
      • Sailing Stones (2015)
        • Julia Dooley: Images from the Bottom of the World and CryoZen Garden
        • José Luis Avila: hOMe
        • Kaori Homma: Meridian Stone
        • Egidija Ciricate: About Stones
        • L.A.N.D.
      • Crisis Farm: Seed to Table by Maryann Worrell and Doug Mott (2015)
      • Suburban Landscapes: Brian Richmond (2015)
    • 2014
      • Enskyment, by David A. Parker
      • Arterial Motives
        • Arterial Motives Exhibition
        • Arterial Motives Blog
      • Garage and Octorara Student Exhibition
      • Maxim D. Shrayer - Leaving Russia
    • 2013
      • Proposals of Belonging
      • Lost Highway 41 Revisited Blues (2013)
    • 2012
      • Compass (2012)
      • Parallax (2012)
    • 2011
      • The Lay of the Land (2011)
  • Ongoing
    • The Dust: American Matter
    • Street Road Reading Group
    • Reigning Heads, Luyi Wang
    • Homma Meridian, by Kaori Homma
    • Folly by Anthony, Dennis, and Nicholas Santella
    • Street Road Rocks
    • Kaori Homma: Meridian Stone
    • unTOLLed Stories, Emily Artinian & Felise Luchansky
      • unTOLLed Stories
      • unTOLLed stories BLOG
    • Supervene Forest, Adrian Barron
    • Bees - Stella Lou Farm
    • Heterotopia West, Adrian Barron
    • The Post Anthropocene Compost
  • Blogs
    • Blog: Winter 2016/17
    • Blog 2011-2016
    • T.S.W.H.
  • Little Free Library
    • Book Club
    • Little Free Library Blog
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Street Road
725 Street Road Cochranville, PA 19330 

The Little Free Library
1016B Gap Newport Pike 
Cochranville, PA 19330

Shared Ground
​Dennis Santella, Nicholas Santella, and Anthony Santella
5/6 - 7/8/2017, Reception 6/3, 2-7pm
 


​"When the logic of history hungers for bread and we hand out a stone, ​we are at pains to explain how much the stone resembles bread."
-Aldo Leopold, The Land Ethic
​
Artists and brothers Nicholas, Anthony, and Dennis Santella reflect on our relationship with the earth and the threads of fruitfulness and conflict that bind us to a place and identity. Working in diverse media, the brothers work is united by a focus on craft, the environment, and forgotten, sometimes dark, corners of experience. Together, their work is a multi-layered view of a shared heritage of craft and conflict.

Anthony’s wooden and mixed media sculptures merge human and plant sometimes literally rooting the figure. In his work, storm-downed trees are reshaped into ritual objects for navigating loss and trauma. Dennis’ photographs of the overgrown remains of Italian WWI trenches
and of Harlem, NY community gardens under siege by new development highlight the human urge to cultivate and destroy and the slow but constant march of nature. Nicholas’ steel recreations of Italian arms and agricultural implements underscore this tension between tending and violating. 


 
These visions are unified in a collaborative outdoor installation, Folly, a sculpture that draws on the visual vocabularies of garden follies, improvised defensive fortifications, and environmental installations to create a space that invites and repulses. It provides a shelter in which to consider threads of craft and fear that run through our relationship with land, the search for safety, conflict, and the ever-present attraction of barriers. 
In acknowledgment of the fact that the closest approximation to safety is found in community, all are invited to contribute to Folly by bringing their own branches to add to the installation or by sharing their thoughts in the journal available in a box within the fortification. Folly will remain on site after the exhibitions close.

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VISITING
Please check our website or social media before visiting as our hours are subject to change.

Street Road HOURS
Fridays and Saturdays from 11am-3pm and by appointment.

Little Free Library HOURS
Mondays 6-9pm (beginning Jan 16, 2023)
​Thursdays 12-4pm
Fridays 10am-2pm
Saturdays 10am-2pm
and by appointment.


Our Little Free Library outdoor boxes at both sites are open 24/7 and are regularly restocked.

Please call 610-869-4712 or email to set up visits outside our regularly scheduled hours. 
​
We are currently seeking volunteers for both locations: 
email us to enquire. We look forward to hearing from you!

DIRECTIONS
to Street Road
 here. 
to The Little Free Library here.

A word about 'here':
We acknowledge that we are on the ancestral lands of the Lenape, original people of the mid-Atlantic area, forced west by British and US governments. Most Delaware Indian tribe descendants are now located in Oklahoma, Wisconsin, and Ontario. Lenni Lenapes in Pennsylvania are not officially recognized as tribes by the United States, though an estimated 5000 Lenape Nation descendants live in the Delaware River area. We pay respects to the Lenape people both past and present. Please consider the many legacies of violence, displacement and settlement that form part of our collective histories. While increased public recognition of these legacies and processes of redress such as Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission are positive steps, concrete focus on return of land and land rights remains a distant horizon.
​
  • Home
  • Current/Upcoming
    • Summer Library, Librarian 10 – Christopher Murray
    • Un-Boxing
    • May the Neotropical Arise — Zulu Padilla
  • Street Road Press
  • Summer Library
    • Summer Library, Librarian 1 – Angella Meanix
    • Summer Library, Librarian 2 – Laura Florence
    • Summer Library, Librarian 3 – Rachel Eng
    • Summer Library, Librarian 4 – Maria Möller
    • Summer Library, Librarian 5 – Mary Tasillo
    • Summer Library, Librarian 6 – Georgie Devereux
    • Summer Library 2021 closing event - The Anti-Anthropocene Bonfire Bookburning
    • Summer Library, Librarian 7 – Rhonda Ike
    • Summer Library, Librarian 8 – Logan Cryer
    • Summer Library, Librarian 9 – Maya Wasileski
  • Clouded Title
    • Clouded Title 2018
    • Clouded Title 2019
    • Clouded Title 2020/21 - Conversations
  • Past
    • 2022
      • Twentysix Wawa Stores
      • Winter Library
      • The Book of Ashes
    • 2021
      • Composting Hegel
      • Street Road Rocks at 10&41
      • Chain mail for bad communicators
      • BABE 2021
    • 2020
      • Castor
      • Dutchirican
    • 2019
      • Roots of Resistance
      • Seven Million Acres: Pride of place
      • LFL Exhibitions: Libbie Sofer, Transported
      • Emily Manko | Now, Then, When
      • Julia Hardman: if they're behind you they go too fast; if they're in front of you they go too slow
      • Summer 2019 Conversations
    • 2018
      • Walking Forward – Looking Back: Carol Maurer
    • 2017
      • Ceramic Sanctuary
      • Homestead: a permaculture project, StellaLou Farm (7/6 to 9/16/2017)
      • Shared Ground: Dennis Santella, Nicholas Santella and Anthony Santella, May-June 2017
      • back, forth: Street Road at 5 years 11/2016-4/2017
        • Anchor 1: Par Exemple, Ebenthal
        • Anchor 2: Homma Meridian
        • Anchor 3: The road out of town, McMurdo Sound
        • Anchor 4: Play Under’ from ‘Underneath
        • Anchor 5: Leni Lenape arrowhead collection
        • Anchor 6 : Open Wall
        • Anchor 7: Supervene Forest
        • Anchor 8: Chalfant
        • Anchor 9: Soviet Apartment Bloc, Tblisi, Georgia
        • Anchor 10 : Enskyment
      • #J20 (1/20/2017)
    • 2016
      • 24 Hour Liminal: Maria Möller (August-October 2016)
      • 7000 Acres: a residents' history of Londonderry Township (May 21-July 15, 2016)
      • The Tent of Casually Observed Phenologies (July 16, 2016)
      • Julia Dooley and Dr. Zoe Courville sci-art student project (4/22-23/16)
      • Maxim D. Shrayer and Christianna Hannum Miller (4/9/2016)
      • Fadi Sultagi's The Sanctuary of Bel, Palmyra (to 4/15/16)
      • Susan Marie Brundage and David A. Parker at Street Road and at The Christiana Motel (to 4/15/16)
      • Sasha Boyle
    • 2015
      • The Road Less Traveled, Danny Aldred
      • Sailing Stones (2015)
        • Julia Dooley: Images from the Bottom of the World and CryoZen Garden
        • José Luis Avila: hOMe
        • Kaori Homma: Meridian Stone
        • Egidija Ciricate: About Stones
        • L.A.N.D.
      • Crisis Farm: Seed to Table by Maryann Worrell and Doug Mott (2015)
      • Suburban Landscapes: Brian Richmond (2015)
    • 2014
      • Enskyment, by David A. Parker
      • Arterial Motives
        • Arterial Motives Exhibition
        • Arterial Motives Blog
      • Garage and Octorara Student Exhibition
      • Maxim D. Shrayer - Leaving Russia
    • 2013
      • Proposals of Belonging
      • Lost Highway 41 Revisited Blues (2013)
    • 2012
      • Compass (2012)
      • Parallax (2012)
    • 2011
      • The Lay of the Land (2011)
  • Ongoing
    • The Dust: American Matter
    • Street Road Reading Group
    • Reigning Heads, Luyi Wang
    • Homma Meridian, by Kaori Homma
    • Folly by Anthony, Dennis, and Nicholas Santella
    • Street Road Rocks
    • Kaori Homma: Meridian Stone
    • unTOLLed Stories, Emily Artinian & Felise Luchansky
      • unTOLLed Stories
      • unTOLLed stories BLOG
    • Supervene Forest, Adrian Barron
    • Bees - Stella Lou Farm
    • Heterotopia West, Adrian Barron
    • The Post Anthropocene Compost
  • Blogs
    • Blog: Winter 2016/17
    • Blog 2011-2016
    • T.S.W.H.
  • Little Free Library
    • Book Club
    • Little Free Library Blog