“….Nothing could be worse than a return to normality. Historically, pandemics have forced humans to break with the past and imagine their world anew. This one is no different. It is a portal, a gateway between one world and the next. We can choose to walk through it, dragging the carcasses of our prejudice and hatred, our avarice, our data banks and dead ideas, our dead rivers and smoky skies behind us. Or we can walk through lightly, with little luggage, ready to imagine another world. And ready to fight for it.”
Arundhati Roy / From the upcoming new book,'The Pandemic is a Portal' / Free to Read / From the Financial Times / 4/3/2020
Update /
Rearranging the Year of ARBOREALITY
Toward New and Emergent Curriculums
Dear Friends and Colleagues, it is time to change. We may never again know the world as it was, but here is our opportunity to reconfigure everything.
Mildred's Lane is an experiment in alternative pedagogies – for over two decades ongoing, Consider the strategic possibilities for challenging creative minds–students, faculty, and colleagues– during the COVID-19 pandemic months and years ahead.
The Mildred Complex(ity) is a studio and project space activating projects, events, and exhibitions in the local hamlet of Narrowsburg, NY, Upper Delaware River Recreational Region, just a 100-miles from NYC.
The Mildred's Lane Project is a valuable tool for you. Institutions need more space that is safe. Mildred's Lane has 94-acres of forest, streams, fields, ponds, outbuildings, cabins, camps, studios, and PROJECTS. Our protocols naturally command social distancing, yet exchanging communally all at once. This rustic, historic site accommodates small groups at a time. Become a sending institution. Customize an emergent curriculum to your needs. You may send individuals to do independent study and research on a specific artist and site-project.
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Emergent Curriculums and Rolling Enrollment for Internships / Career Enhancement / Research Residencies / Adjunct Cell / or other.
Mildred's Lane is an unusual social engagement and art-site. Dozens of projects ongoing for over twenty years with collaborating artists and fellows who live the project installations. We seek Institutional support for fellows to live/research/practice/work as an intern steward.
According to your budgetary requirements, coordinate in forming independent study and research, professional career enhancement, internship programs, fellowships, residencies, mentorships, and other grant or budget assortments.
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Contact us soon for limited space from September through November. Next week we will announce autumn's new and emergent curriculums. We are welcoming your letters of interest and ideas now.
Reopening late July, August, September, October, November.
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