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Current and Upcoming
Street Road is currently open Friday and Saturday, 11am-3pm, and by appointment. THIS SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 23 RECEPTIONS 1-4pm Eastern We'd love to see you at our reception for both Library 11 and for Part 1 of Near Dwellers, SLQS' Walking Together. A sneak peak - Christianna Potter Hannum will give a talk about her work and Emily Hubley's animations SLQS and Near Dwellers partner, Fawn Daphne Plessner (the Tree Museum), will attend virtually, and we'll have some lovely things from Succession Fermentory and Deisy's Cakes. Come join us! 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. SLQS (Sarah Le Quang Sang) Walking Together Aug 4 – Sept 30, 2023 Sarah Le Quang Sang, aka SLQS, and her film, Walking Together, opens Near Dwellers, our year-long inquiry on human and animal relationships. Her film provocatively and poetically situates us in the midst of a walk with rider and horse as they move through the interstitially urban lands of Walthamstow Marshes, in London, United Kingdom. Summer Library - Fall 2023 Librarian 11 Christianna Potter Hannum NOW OPEN We have exciting new libraries in our ongoing series Summer Library, in which invited artists and thinkers work with the collections of our Little Free Library 19330. And watch this space for ... Librarian 12 Robert Good October 28 through the end of 2024, at both of our sites: Street Road's main art space and at our Little Free Library. HOURS: Street Road is currently open Friday and Saturday, 11am-3pm, and by appointment. The Little Free Library 19330 is currently open on Mondays 6-9p, Thursdays 12-4p, Fridays 10-2p, Saturdays 10-2p, and by appointment. NOTE: The LFL will be closed on Sat. Sept 2 and Mon. Sept 4. Enjoy your Labor Day weekend. 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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