Street Road
  • Home
  • Visit
  • CURRENT
    • Becoming Succession
    • HERE: a place-based polar image bridge
    • Near Dwellers
    • Near Dwellers as Friends
    • Near Dwellers as Indwellers
  • Multi-year enquiries, ongoing
    • Near Dwellers
      • 1: Near Dwellers and the Sharing of Breath, SLQS
      • 2: Near Dwellers as Legal Beings, Fawn Daphne Plessner and Susanna Kamon
      • 3: Near Dwellers as Creative Collaborators, Julie Andreyev and Ruth K. Burke
      • 4: Near Dwellers as Urbanites, Jesse Garbe and Doug LaFortune
      • 5: Near Dwellers as Roadkill, Lou Florence
      • 6. Near Dwellers as Friends
      • 7. Near Dwellers as Indwellers
    • Clouded Title
      • Clouded Title 2018
      • Clouded Title 2019
      • Clouded Title 2020/21 - Conversations
    • A(mobile)DRIFT
    • Summer Library
      • Summer Library, Librarian 12 – Robert Good
      • Summer Library, Librarian 11 – Christianna Potter Hannum
      • Summer Library, Librarian 10 – Christopher Murray
      • Summer Library, Librarian 9 – Maya Wasileski
      • Summer Library, Librarian 8 – Logan Cryer
      • Summer Library, Librarian 7 – Rhonda Ike
      • Summer Library 2021 closing event - The Anti-Anthropocene Bonfire Bookburning
      • Summer Library, Librarian 6 – Georgie Devereux
      • Summer Library, Librarian 5 – Mary Tasillo
      • Summer Library, Librarian 4 – Maria Möller
      • Summer Library, Librarian 3 – Rachel Eng
      • Summer Library, Librarian 2 – Lou Florence
      • Summer Library, Librarian 1 – Angella Meanix
  • Outdoor works, ongoing
    • Locust Leap
    • Domestic Rewilding - Ruth K. Burke
    • Supervene Forest
  • past
    • Dennis Haggerty – Various Small Envelopes
    • Multi-year
      • The Dust: American Matter
      • Heterotopia West, Adrian Barron
      • The Post Anthropocene Compost
      • Reigning Heads, Luyi Wang
      • Homma Meridian, by Kaori Homma
      • Folly by Anthony, Dennis, and Nicholas Santella
      • Street Road Rocks
      • Street Road Reading Group
      • Kaori Homma: Meridian Stone
      • unTOLLed Stories, Emily Artinian & Felise Luchansky
        • unTOLLed Stories
        • unTOLLed stories BLOG
      • Bees - Stella Lou Farm
    • 2023
      • May the Neotropical Arise — Zulu Padilla
    • 2022
      • Un-Boxing
      • 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)
  • Street Road Press
  • Blogs
    • Blog: Winter 2016/17
    • Blog 2011-2016
    • T.S.W.H.
  • Little Free Library
    • Book Club
    • Little Free Library Blog
  • Home
  • Visit
  • CURRENT
    • Becoming Succession
    • HERE: a place-based polar image bridge
    • Near Dwellers
    • Near Dwellers as Friends
    • Near Dwellers as Indwellers
  • Multi-year enquiries, ongoing
    • Near Dwellers
      • 1: Near Dwellers and the Sharing of Breath, SLQS
      • 2: Near Dwellers as Legal Beings, Fawn Daphne Plessner and Susanna Kamon
      • 3: Near Dwellers as Creative Collaborators, Julie Andreyev and Ruth K. Burke
      • 4: Near Dwellers as Urbanites, Jesse Garbe and Doug LaFortune
      • 5: Near Dwellers as Roadkill, Lou Florence
      • 6. Near Dwellers as Friends
      • 7. Near Dwellers as Indwellers
    • Clouded Title
      • Clouded Title 2018
      • Clouded Title 2019
      • Clouded Title 2020/21 - Conversations
    • A(mobile)DRIFT
    • Summer Library
      • Summer Library, Librarian 12 – Robert Good
      • Summer Library, Librarian 11 – Christianna Potter Hannum
      • Summer Library, Librarian 10 – Christopher Murray
      • Summer Library, Librarian 9 – Maya Wasileski
      • Summer Library, Librarian 8 – Logan Cryer
      • Summer Library, Librarian 7 – Rhonda Ike
      • Summer Library 2021 closing event - The Anti-Anthropocene Bonfire Bookburning
      • Summer Library, Librarian 6 – Georgie Devereux
      • Summer Library, Librarian 5 – Mary Tasillo
      • Summer Library, Librarian 4 – Maria Möller
      • Summer Library, Librarian 3 – Rachel Eng
      • Summer Library, Librarian 2 – Lou Florence
      • Summer Library, Librarian 1 – Angella Meanix
  • Outdoor works, ongoing
    • Locust Leap
    • Domestic Rewilding - Ruth K. Burke
    • Supervene Forest
  • past
    • Dennis Haggerty – Various Small Envelopes
    • Multi-year
      • The Dust: American Matter
      • Heterotopia West, Adrian Barron
      • The Post Anthropocene Compost
      • Reigning Heads, Luyi Wang
      • Homma Meridian, by Kaori Homma
      • Folly by Anthony, Dennis, and Nicholas Santella
      • Street Road Rocks
      • Street Road Reading Group
      • Kaori Homma: Meridian Stone
      • unTOLLed Stories, Emily Artinian & Felise Luchansky
        • unTOLLed Stories
        • unTOLLed stories BLOG
      • Bees - Stella Lou Farm
    • 2023
      • May the Neotropical Arise — Zulu Padilla
    • 2022
      • Un-Boxing
      • 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)
  • Street Road Press
  • 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
NEAR DWELLERS
August 2023 – ongoing

Part 1
Near Dwellers and the Sharing of Breath
Sarah Le Quang Sang with Spirit of Saigon

August 4 – September 30, 2023

Part 2
Near Dwellers as
​Legal Beings

Fawn Daphne Plessner
Susanna Kamon

October 13 – December 30, 2023

Part 3
Near Dwellers as Creative Collaborators
Julie Andreyev
Ruth K. Burke

February 2 – April 13, 2024

​
Part 4
Near Dwellers as Urbanites
Jesse Garbe

Doug La Fortune
May 3, 2024 – January 31, 2025

Part 5
Near Dwellers as Roadkill
Lou Florence
Februay 15 – May 31, 2025

Part 6
Near Dwellers as Friends
Online with Heather Ohaneson
March 10, 2025, and
At Bothkinds Project Space
​Vancouver, British Columbia 

October 1 - December 31, 2025

Part 7
Near Dwellers as Indwellers
At Bothkinds Project Space
Vancouver, British Columbia 

​October 1 - December 31, 2025
Near Dwellers is a multi-part project hosted by the Tree Museum and Street Road, exploring animal-human relationships, with a focus on the spaces and places we share. Programming includes exhibitions, discussions, and public participation, opening up new and multi-faceted ways of understanding animals and our relationships with them.

Introduction
In recent years and within some scholarly circles (Animal Studies; Indigenous Law, Animal Law etc.), there has been growing attention paid to the implicit, but not always visible or publicly verbalized, interdependencies of humans and animals.* This is especially pressing in the context of climate change and the unfolding ecocide, where (wild) animals have suffered greatly, and in many cases are facing extinction in the fallout of industrialization, the expansion of intensive farming, urbanization, deforestation, rising ocean temperatures, etc. Equally, it is well known that animals that have been bred for human consumption endure extensive violence and hardship, and those that are employed to work, often do so in dangerous and life-threatening environments (police, military etc.), while others are brought into our homes to live as members of the human family. How animals are conceptualized, how they are classified as “property” within our colonial legal order, instead of being seen as say, “nations” in the case of wild animals, or as autonomous and agential beings deserving of a political status; how they are treated, (i.e., selectively bred for food or to supplement human labour, or as companions), is indicative of commonplace assumptions of animals as subject to human needs and interests.  This language and logic of speciesism is without doubt ubiquitous and normalized in our modern experience of animals. It also undergirds human behaviors that differentiate between pets and service animals that are pampered from farmed or wild animals that are objectified, as a means to an end, or are spectacularized, in the case of the latter.

While we live in the soup of industrialised and capitalistic designations of farm, pet, wild, and service animals, Near Dwellers looks at how artists have troubled such identifications to reveal more complex and nuanced aspects of more-than-human beings that challenge conventional treatments of animals as exploitable material objects, or as adored, reviled, or novel objects of attention. Near Dwellers therefore invites visitors to reckon with the urgency of regarding animals as autonomous beings with their own unique capacities, communities, and needs, not only for the important ethical responsibilities that flow from this, but to acknowledge the very real biological, emotional, and spiritual, connections between all animals, human and more-than-human alike. Near Dwellers focuses on the interdependencies among all animal beings, to make palpable the role that aesthetic experiences offer in connecting with the critters with whom we reside alongside of, with the wider aim of supporting the cultural turn away from an anthropocentric worldview, to one that places more-than-humans at the center of the social and political world. That is to say, we humans dwell near other animals who importantly create the world that sustains us. It is timely then to acknowledge our dependence on them. Near Dwellers takes a step in that direction.

The art projects presented in Near Dwellers examine and challenge conventional imaginaries of the human/animal divide and instead open-up new and multi-faceted ways of understanding animals as creative in-their-own-right, as determinably political in their ‘nationhood’ in the maintenance of their communal social protocols and kinship ties, indeed, as ordering and organizing the world in ways that are often invisible to humans, but that can be glimpsed through the work of artists who have spent time nurturing relationships with the animals with whom they live alongside.

In Street Road’s presentation of artists’ projects and panel discussions with scholars from other disciplines, Near Dwellers offers segues to wider questions and reflections on who exactly is visible as an animal neighbor? What are their needs and what does this entail for how one shares space and takes responsibility for the well-being of our fellow animal residents? What can be learned from more-than-human beings when they reach out to us? What do we learn from artists who have co-created art with their companion animals? Or, indeed, in what ways do animals create art, and how does this challenge perceptions of animal life as solely rudimentary? And what do we learn from artists today who render images of animals as symbols, or as expressions of joy and love, in light of the environmental turbulence with which we are all faced? These are some of the questions that will be explored in Near Dwellers.

* The use of the term ‘animal’ has been widely critiqued within academic circles as indicative of assumptions of the human as exogenous and/or as exceptional from other animal beings (i.e., uniquely in possession of moral, spiritual, rational capacities etc.). To address this conceit, terms such as ‘more-than-human’ or ‘other-than-human’ or ‘multi-species’ have been employed to close the conceptual gap in the human/animal binary. However, there is no agreement about the use of such terms, therefore ‘animal’ will be used here synonymously with some of these other terms, on the understanding that Near Dwellers is an attempt to further trouble the politics of human exceptionalism and its consequences for human (as animal) and (other) animal relations. In other words, Near Dwellers does not concur with the belief that humans are ontologically transcendent of or necessarily unique within the animal world.
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Please check our website or social media before visiting as our hours are subject to change.
We can accommodate most times by appointment, given a little advance notice. 
Email us or phone to set up a visit.
And, stop by if you see a car outside!

HOURS — Street Road 
​

February 15 – May 31, 2025
Fridays, 5-8pm
Saturdays, 11-3pm
and by appointment, in person or virtually. 

HOURS — Little Free Library 19330 (our 2nd site a few miles north)
Wednesdays 6-9pm
Thursdays 12-4pm
Fridays 10am-2pm
Saturdays 10am-2pm
and by appointment.

NOTE: The LFL19330 will be closed on July 4th & 5th.

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
  • Visit
  • CURRENT
    • Becoming Succession
    • HERE: a place-based polar image bridge
    • Near Dwellers
    • Near Dwellers as Friends
    • Near Dwellers as Indwellers
  • Multi-year enquiries, ongoing
    • Near Dwellers
      • 1: Near Dwellers and the Sharing of Breath, SLQS
      • 2: Near Dwellers as Legal Beings, Fawn Daphne Plessner and Susanna Kamon
      • 3: Near Dwellers as Creative Collaborators, Julie Andreyev and Ruth K. Burke
      • 4: Near Dwellers as Urbanites, Jesse Garbe and Doug LaFortune
      • 5: Near Dwellers as Roadkill, Lou Florence
      • 6. Near Dwellers as Friends
      • 7. Near Dwellers as Indwellers
    • Clouded Title
      • Clouded Title 2018
      • Clouded Title 2019
      • Clouded Title 2020/21 - Conversations
    • A(mobile)DRIFT
    • Summer Library
      • Summer Library, Librarian 12 – Robert Good
      • Summer Library, Librarian 11 – Christianna Potter Hannum
      • Summer Library, Librarian 10 – Christopher Murray
      • Summer Library, Librarian 9 – Maya Wasileski
      • Summer Library, Librarian 8 – Logan Cryer
      • Summer Library, Librarian 7 – Rhonda Ike
      • Summer Library 2021 closing event - The Anti-Anthropocene Bonfire Bookburning
      • Summer Library, Librarian 6 – Georgie Devereux
      • Summer Library, Librarian 5 – Mary Tasillo
      • Summer Library, Librarian 4 – Maria Möller
      • Summer Library, Librarian 3 – Rachel Eng
      • Summer Library, Librarian 2 – Lou Florence
      • Summer Library, Librarian 1 – Angella Meanix
  • Outdoor works, ongoing
    • Locust Leap
    • Domestic Rewilding - Ruth K. Burke
    • Supervene Forest
  • past
    • Dennis Haggerty – Various Small Envelopes
    • Multi-year
      • The Dust: American Matter
      • Heterotopia West, Adrian Barron
      • The Post Anthropocene Compost
      • Reigning Heads, Luyi Wang
      • Homma Meridian, by Kaori Homma
      • Folly by Anthony, Dennis, and Nicholas Santella
      • Street Road Rocks
      • Street Road Reading Group
      • Kaori Homma: Meridian Stone
      • unTOLLed Stories, Emily Artinian & Felise Luchansky
        • unTOLLed Stories
        • unTOLLed stories BLOG
      • Bees - Stella Lou Farm
    • 2023
      • May the Neotropical Arise — Zulu Padilla
    • 2022
      • Un-Boxing
      • 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)
  • Street Road Press
  • Blogs
    • Blog: Winter 2016/17
    • Blog 2011-2016
    • T.S.W.H.
  • Little Free Library
    • Book Club
    • Little Free Library Blog