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  • 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
[email protected]
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Street Road
725 Street Road Cochranville, PA 19330 

The Little Free Library
1016B Gap Newport Pike 
Cochranville, PA 19330
Picture
part of the ongoing series 
Summer Library​

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Librarian 7

Rhonda Ike
July 15 - September 3, 2022

Rhonda Hershey Ike is the founder and creator of EarthArtYoga, a creative endeavor that aims to explore the intersection of nature, art, movement and breath. EarthArtYoga organizes and creates earth based art experiences that nurture and soothe the soul. A large part of her work is ephemeral, honoring and celebrating the constant changes in nature and in ourselves. Rhonda encourages interaction with her artwork by creating installations that viewers must travel through to experience. She is very interested in the changes that occur over time and the impact the viewer has on the work.

This spring, Rhonda collaborated with Kauffman Orchards in Ronks, PA to create “Returning,” a unique outdoor art installation built from “retired” apple trees, cherry trees and peach prunings, which includes a Chartres style labyrinth spanning 100 ft. across. The piece is currently on view throughout the Summer and Fall of 2022. “Returning” invites viewers to honor and enjoy nature by engaging with various contemplative spaces within the exhibit. In October, after the harvest season in the orchard, there will be a closing celebration and these sculptures will be burned, returning them to the Earth from which they came.

See full details about the Summer Library project, including other Librarians' work, here.

Full Circle

Books as building blocks
Creating forms
Simply, like Mondrian
​Erasing the distractions
Color, images and titles
That pull the eye away
From our true nature
Of Earth

Building back the trees from which they came:
from trees to books and back to trees again.
This installation was inspired by Ike's  recent outdoor work with trees, especially her nearby site-specific piece “Returning.” In both installations, her intent is to honor the wisdom and infinite contributions of trees by building spaces for viewers to engage with and contemplate these wonders of nature.

Working with the books as sculptural elements led her to create forms that somehow represent these gentle giants. The large circle in the middle of the space is the circumference of one of the largest trees in Chester County, located in Cochranville, three miles from Street Road Artists Space and just a stone’s throw from the Little Free Library.

Ike invites visitors to enter that space and feel the magic within. Viewers are encouraged to add books from the shelves or the floor to this circle in order to contribute to the growth of this installation.


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VISITING
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 
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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. 
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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.
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  • 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