Thank you, Mildred's Lane Resident-Artists-in-Complex(ity)

Samiha Tasnim / Officer of Complex(ity) since winter 2020 / Graduate of Mt. Holyoke College Studio Arts / MA

This year's RAICs have been awarded the Certificate of Plenipotentiary for their outstanding contributions to the most challenging season here at Mildred's Lane. Each year, we invite a handful of fellows to staff our efforts throughout the year. During a very shut down season, our sending institutions and colleagues selected the 2020 spring/summer team to learn the fine art and system aesthetics of Workstyles of Mildred's Lane. Their RAIC experience includes aiding the Ambassadors and assisting artists from around the world on projects and sessions swarming around social topics. 

These fellows are most recognized for their patience during this season of COVID-19, working collectively, laboriously, creatively domesticating, detailing our relations to the environment and each other, but importantly, taking constant care and maintenance of the artist projects in these deep woods. Thank you.

Thank you to colleagues and institutions supporting these Mildred's Lane RAIC Fellows*: 
The Mildred Complex(ity), J. Morgan Puett, Mark Dion, The Cooper Union Center for Career Development Professional Internship Program, The Luminarts Cultural Foundation, and anonymous others.

Thank you to Friends of Mildred's Lane making our one and only session a smooth and successful one: Carla Duarte, Abby Lutz, Leila Gordon, and Barry Puett.

Thank you to Marx for Cats Applied: Caroline Woolard and Leigh Claire La Berge, with contributing artists, Daniel Tucker and Emily Bunker, Marisa Williamson; and with Fellows Brett Wallace, Lee Noble, Hannah Hirsekorn, Barry Puett, and Isabel Jerome.

Natalie Straub,
Master Hooshress
Graduate of Rutgers Mason Gross School of the Arts, NJ

Hannah Hirsekorn,
Land Steward
Graduate of The School of the Art Institute of Chicago Fibers and Material Studies Program, IL

Isabel Jerome,
Ministry of Comfort
Student of The Cooper Union, NYC

Mildred's Lane 2020: New and Emergent Curriculums

“….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.

mildredslane@gmail.com

Reopening late July, August, September, October, November. 

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Mildred's Lane 2020: Year of Arboreality

"We invoke one dualism only in order to challenge another. We employ a dualism of models only in order to arrive at a process that challenges all models. Each time mental correctives are necessary to undo the dualism we had no wish to construct but through which we pass. Arriving at the magic formula we all seek – pluralism = monism – via all the dualisms that are the enemy. The furniture we are forever rearranging."
            –Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia

Update /
Rearranging the Year of ARBOREALITY

Dear Friends, 

We continue rearranging our summer in hopes of keeping in tune with the regional protocols during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Please stay in one place, be well, and think of others. When and if our current guidelines are lifted, a range of change will reawaken our senses with a set of new experiences in this bewildering landscape.

We regretfully must postpone most sessions this year into 2021. Under the best circumstances, new hopes are that Mildred's Lane will reopen to limited capacity for July/ August/ September/ October to individuals, couples, families, and small groups becoming Resident-Artists-in- Complex(ity):
  
      •  Accepting applications for the August Session, Marx for Cats Applied. 

      •  Accepting letters of interest for short and more extended stays.

     •  Open for day visits, tours, and talks, with social distancing.

     •  Open Air community events and exhibitions at The Mildred Complex(ity) in nearby Narrowsburg, NY, to be announced. 

      •  Sending Institutions, Fellows, and new applicants, please contact Mildred's Lane directly to reschedule accordingly.

      •  AirBnB access will reopen once the current protective guidelines are lifted, as it stands we are currently closed.

In efforts to SUPPORT Mildred's Lane and the artists who contribute to our cause we are soon launching A GUIDE TO THE FIELD site, encouraging you to COLLECT art-works-and-wares. Please share the postings with your friends and colleagues. For further information follow Instagram/ aguidetothefield

For now, we continue to follow all precautions provided by factual sources.

From the Ambassador of Entanglement / Mildred's Lane

Image/ The BLUE Hour / April 2020 / Mildred's Lane

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MARX FOR CATS APPLIED 
August 3 through August 9 
Caroline Woolard, Leigh Claire La Berge, Christine Wang, Marisa Williamson
Using the figure of the radical cat, we will explore the representation of capitalism, from the Middle Ages to the present. We will ask how performance, irony, and pleasure may become vehicles for the critique of settler-colonialism, racial capitalism, and financialization. 

contact/ mildredslane@gmail.com
Instagram/ mildredslane

Mildred's Lane 2020: Year of Arboreality UPDATE

"In nature the normal way trees flourish is by their association in a forest. Each tree may lose something of its individual perfection of growth, but they mutually assist each other in preserving the conditions for survival."

From Alfred North Whitehead, ‘Concepts of Nature’

Update /
Rearranging the Year of ARBOREALITY

Dear Friends,

We are rearranging our summer schedule. Mildred's Lane will continue accepting applications, although, in this ever-changing world, a new title for your involvement at Mildred's Lane emerges as Resident-Artists-In-Complex(ity). 
 

Our engagement is pushed back at least a month. There is a new schedule, see below. We will practice social distance swarming independently, open-air, and amongst the trees, following new protocols reinforced by the current societal health facts and guidelines. 
 

Keep watching for updates about open sessions as we assess new conditions in the coming weeks. We ask that current fellows rearrange their schedules and self-quarantine before arriving.
 

Sending Institutions, Fellows, and new applicants, please contact Mildred's Lane directly to reschedule accordingly.
 

We hope that everyone stays safe and sound while we PAUSE. Meanwhile, follow all precautions provided by factual sources – we will get through this.

Ambassador of Entanglement
Mildred's Lane

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WORKSTYLING the WILD is CANCELLED. But we will be working on the garden throughout the summer.
Closed June. 

BIBLIOPHANTICS and the Narrowsburg Deep Water Literary Festival are CANCELLED. But we offer open-air Bibliophantics throughout the late summer and autumn, so use this bewildering landscape as your independent reading/writing/working residency.
Closed June. 

SILVER–IRON–LIGHT is on.
July dates to be announced. 
Noah Doely, Susanna Crum, Rudy Salgado. 
Set in the landscape with an extravaganza of 19th and 20th-century equipment; we will facilitate the plein-air tintype, cyanotype, and anthotype processes forming retinal memories of Mildred's Lane.

FOREST–BODY–CHAIR  is CANCELLED.                                       
New schedule in Summer 2021.     
                                                                                               
TREEHOUSE is CANCELLED.
July 20 through August 2
New schedule in Summer 2021.     
                                                         
MARX FOR CATS APPLIED is on.
August 3 through August 9 
Caroline Woolard, Leigh Claire La Berge, Christine Wang, Marisa Williamson
Using the figure of the radical cat, we will explore the representation of capitalism, from the Middle Ages to the present. We will ask how performance, irony, and pleasure may become vehicles for the critique of settler-colonialism, racial capitalism, and financialization. 

As of now, ORDER OF THE THIRD BIRD: ATTENTION LAB is on.
August 10 through 16 
Justin Ginsberg, Anne Riley, D. Graham Burnett, Sal Randolph, Leonard Nalencz.
The indiscreet associates of The Order of the Third Bird continue their investigations into experimental protocols of Practical Aesthesis and methods of Sustained Attention. 
 

ALL AUGUST / SEPTEMBER dates are 
open-air sessions, 
and we welcome letters of interest for  
BEING there; long or short stays. 
mildredslane@gmail.com

Mildred's Lane 2020: Year of Arboreality UPDATE

We will find ways of being there.

"Existence is not an individual affair." _Karen Barad, Meeting the Universe Halfway.

Mildred’s Lane Sessions 2020: Update
Year of ARBOREALITY

Dear Friends,

We are REARRANGING our summer schedule.  We will keep you updated about socially engaging in small groups, after we assess new conditions in the coming weeks. 

We hope that everyone is safe and sound while we PAUSE. Meanwhile, follow all precautions provided by factual sources – we will get through this.

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This recipe is an effective home-made disinfectant cleaner: 

• 1/4 cup of white vinegar.
• 1  1/4 cups of water.
• 1/4 cup of rubbing alcohol 70%.
• 15 drops essential oil – peppermint, lemon, lavender  for scent.
• Glass spray bottle.

When using, allow the spray to remain on surfaces for a few minutes to be most effective for killing bacteria.

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Spread ideas, not disease.

Mildred's Lane 2020: Year of Arboreality

Mildred’s Lane Sessions 2020: Update
Year of ARBOREALITY

Dear Friends,

I want to update you about Mildred's Lane Sessions 2020. Honestly, we are in a holding pattern. We have not made any changes in our summer schedule. We hope that everyone is safe and sound while we just PAUSE.

Session Leaders and Fellows should contact me directly about each individual case concerning travel this summer. Though Mildred's Lane is deep in the Upper Delaware River woods, socially engaging in small groups, we are still taking all precautions provided by governing sources.

All Sending Institutions supporting Fellows, Resident-Artists-in-Complex(ity), or Independent Mildred Fellows attending sessions may reschedule visits at any time. We honor your session placeholder deposits which may be applied toward other dates and sessions throughout the year; allowing for safe travel and gathering. Stay in touch.

Each of us is responsible for making sure that we are not endangering anyone. Please be healthy, stay where you are, kindly think of others, and extend help where you safely can.

Spread ideas, not bacteria.

• Know your risk.
• Know your circumstances. Think of the impact in your community.
• Know what you can do to stay safe.

Meanwhile, Mildred's Lane will join in creating new workstyles toward a safe environment. Above all, practice good health, and be assured Mildred’s Lane will always be here. 

Yours truly, 
J. Morgan Puett
Ambassador of Entanglement 

 
This recipe is an effective home-made disinfectant cleaner:
 
• 1/4 cup of white vinegar.
• 1  1/4 cups of water.
• 1/4 cup of vodka. (It has germ-killing properties, but you can substitute rubbing alcohol 70%, smells more medicinal and cheaper.)
• 15 drops essential oil – peppermint and lemon OR lavender and lemon for scent.
• Glass spray bottle.

When using, allow the spray to remain on surfaces for a few minutes to be most effective for killing bacteria.

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ar·bo·re·al | ärˈbôrēəl | adjective(chiefly of animals) living in trees: arboreal rodents. • relating to trees. DERIVATIVES arboreality | ärˌbôrēˈalitē | noun ORIGIN mid 17th century: from Latin arboreus, from arbor ‘tree’, + -al.
 
Charlie Adams / Nina Burleigh / D. Graham Burnett / Donna Cleary / Jorge Colombo / Scott Constable / Susanna Crum / Deborah Davidovits / Oliver Davidson / Mark Dion / Noah Doely / Sarah Doherty / Juliet Dunn / Coco Fusco / Justin Ginsberg / Hope Ginsburg / John Haskell / Pablo Helguera / Jeffrey Jenkins / Alex Jones / Cameron Klavsen / Leigh Claire La Berge / Samantha Lopez / Abby Lutz / Kristyna Milde / Marek Milde / Leonard Nalencz / Nate Padavick / Rebecca Purcell / Grey Rabbit Puett / J. Morgan Puett / Joshua Quarles / Sal Randolph / Anna Riley / Rudy Salgado / Alex Schechter / Gina Siepel / Laura Silverman / Sara Smith / Dannielle Tegeder / James Voorhies / Christine Wang / Kate Wellspring / Marisa Williamson / David Wood / Caroline Woolard / Amy Yoes / and others to be announced!

Mildred's Lane 2020: Year of Arboreality

Mildred’s Lane Sessions 2020: Update
Year of ARBOREALITY

Dear Friends,

We are all being swamped with announcements and information about the COVID-19 pandemic. The more communication there is, the more prepared we are.

Though Mildred's Lane is deep in the Upper Delaware River woods, socially engaging in small groups, we are still taking all the precautions provided by governing sources.

We will keep you updated on any changes or disruptions in our program this season. Any sending institution supporting Fellows, Resident-Artists-in-Complex(ity), or Independent Artists attending sessions may reschedule visits at any time. We honor your session deposits toward other dates and sessions throughout the year; allowing for safe travel and gathering. Let's stay in touch.
 

This pandemic reminds us to think of others. Each of us is responsible for making sure that we are not endangering anyone. But keep spreading ideas:

• Know your risk.
• Know your circumstances. Think of the impact in your community.
• Know what you can do to stay safe.

Meanwhile, Mildred's Lane will join in creating new workstyles toward a safe environment. Above all, practice good health, and be assured Mildred’s Lane will always be here. 
 
Hey, try this recipe for making your own disinfectant cleaner:
 
• 1/4 cup of white vinegar.
• 1  1/4 cups of water.
• 1/4 cup of vodka. (It has germ-killing properties, but you can substitute rubbing alcohol, smells more medicinal and cheaper.)
• 15 drops essential oil – peppermint and lemon OR lavender and lemon for scent.
• Glass spray bottle.

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ar·bo·re·al | ärˈbôrēəl | adjective(chiefly of animals) living in trees: arboreal rodents. • relating to trees. DERIVATIVES arboreality | ärˌbôrēˈalitē | noun ORIGIN mid 17th century: from Latin arboreus, from arbor ‘tree’, + -al.
 
Charlie Adams / Nina Burleigh / D. Graham Burnett / Donna Cleary / Jorge Colombo / Scott Constable / Susanna Crum / Deborah Davidovits / Oliver Davidson / Mark Dion / Noah Doely / Sarah Doherty / Juliet Dunn / Coco Fusco / Justin Ginsberg / Hope Ginsburg / John Haskell / Pablo Helguera / Jeffrey Jenkins / Alex Jones / Cameron Klavsen / Leigh Claire La Berge / Samantha Lopez / Abby Lutz / Kristyna Milde / Marek Milde / Leonard Nalencz / Nate Padavick / Rebecca Purcell / Grey Rabbit Puett / J. Morgan Puett / Joshua Quarles / Sal Randolph / Anna Riley / Rudy Salgado / Alex Schechter / Gina Siepel / Laura Silverman / Sara Smith / Dannielle Tegeder / James Voorhies / Christine Wang / Kate Wellspring / Marisa Williamson / David Wood / Caroline Woolard / Amy Yoes / and others to be announced!