Mildred’s Lane Inc 2026: Year of The Actions
Welcome to our 2026 program of sessions, residencies, retreats, visiting artists, and special events!
The program’s underlying vision is built on the 25-year history of experimental pedagogies played out at Mildred’s Lane by its founding collaborators. Pedagogy, which can be defined as learning with a social aim, remains a fundamental idea for Mildred’s Lane. We will continue to work toward new and emergent curriculums, guided by the following propositions:
Sites of engagement for collaborative and transdisciplinary research and experimentation are largely missing from traditional institutions of education.
Pedagogy is non-hierarchical exchange between disciplines, generations, and cultures.
Education should fundamentally contribute to new ways of sustainable living in this challenging century.
The collection of 2026 residency sessions, co-curated with numerous collaborators, propose unique embodiments of these ideas. They create space for exploring new modes of sharing / learning / researching / making / being together.
We hope you will join us!
Ecology and Cloth | Weekend Workshop | April 10–13 | April 24 –27 | May 1 – 4 | May 22 –25 , 2026
Spring Sessions with / Cyra Levenson / Gary Graham / Constance Old / Abby Lutz & J. Morgan Puett / others TBA.
We are passing through the first quarter of the 21st century and still not yet manifesting what should be the most important period for radical change in how we think of ecological materials for clothing ourselves and use of cloth in our everyday lives. Recycling has been the obvious turn, but we have not reached what creative thinking in cloth and design can do for the planet.
This series of weekend workshops focuses on transformative questioning about how we think of cloth, clothing. adaptive reuse, collaboration, speculative, and social thinking – ‘NEXT’ aesthetics and Gallery installation in week three are part of this session.
Fellows will become Resident-Artists-In-Complexity at Mildred’s Lane, Pennsylvania, and create new project works in the project space and studio in Narrowsburg, NY just across the river.
The Mildred Complex(ity) (TMC) Project Space & ANNEX – in conjunction with The Department of Inter-Stitch-iaries – Mildred’s Lane, PA., Art Site – both will feature exhibitions with this select group of
Blue Moon | Swarming | May 29 – June 1, 2026
A 3-day swarming of magical discovery around a redoubtable Blue Moon amongst the enchanted art-site of Mildred’s Lane. A time of growth and resumption, we invite you to share in an intimate assembly – What is Magic? A Blue Moon is a deeply vigorous time for manifesting magic; and the moon will be gleaming over the Spring evenings around the fires. critically questioning the histories of the contemporary movements and practices of it – what, how, who, and why. Special guest speaker is present and blue.
BIBLIOPHANTICS | Sessions | June 15 - 21, 2026
Featuring One Grand Books’ Narrowsburg Deep Water Literary Festival / Asti Hustvedt and Others to be announced / June 19-21
Mildred’s Lane has several libraries. We will explore and rearrange where needed. The most recent library is in The newly installed Department of Inter-stitch-iaries on site, housing the Living Archive of Mildred’s Lane.
The session blurs into The Narrowsburg Deep Water Literary Festival by One Grand Books, Delaware Valley Arts Alliance (DVAA), and other organizations. If you enjoy reading and writing, meet other book lovers during this session of festivities. You will have free and open access to all Deep Water Literary Festival programming and events during your stay. Watch for postings from us and One Grand Books for a list of the events and creative practitioners performing during the week, some of which will be hosted at MLINC-NY and ML-PA.
‘Provoked by the death of her brother-in-law, the novelist Paul Auster, author Asti Hustvedt (Medical Muses: Hysteria in 19th-Century Paris) explores what it means to “get lost” in a book. She frames reading as a kind of mediumship—a state in which the reader becomes a site of possession, a host for the author’s consciousness. Drawing on the figures of the medium and the hysteric, Hustvedt’s talk argues that the act of reading is not merely a cognitive process for decoding inert signs on the page, but a kind of séance: a weird and complex collaboration between the living and the dead.’
Watch for postings from us and One Grand Books for a list of the events. @deepwaterliteraryfestival / www.deepwaterfestival.com
WHAT IS DEEP TIME? | Session | June 28 through July, 2026
With Artists Richard Klein, Mark Dion, David Brooks and others TBA. What Lies Beneath and other adventures
We generally think of the landscape in spatial terms, an arena of human activity that is measured primarily in distance. But distance is not just measured in feet and miles, but also time. Individuals as varied as the nineteenth century British art critic John Ruskin and eighteenth-century German polymath Goethe took serious interest in geology as they understood that it opened the door to understanding the long-term forces of natural history. Goethe meticulously observed the landscape through the lens of geology, and even served as a mining engineer, while Ruskin was one of the first individuals to express a belief in “deep time” through his detailed studies of rock strata. For What Lies Beneath, artist and curator Richard Klein and others will introduce participants not only to the history revealed in the geology of the region surrounding Mildred’s Lane, but also to the history recorded in the rock beneath where they live. The session will involve field trips to the coal fields of eastern Pennsylvania and to outcrops of the “Catskill Delta,” the remains of the massive river delta formed during the uplift of the Appalachian Mountains during the Acadian Orogeny, 400-350 million years ago. Participants are requested to bring rock samples from where they live to initiate conversations about deep time and how what lies beneath determines the character of specific landscapes. The session will also explore the history of artists engagement with geology, including figures such as Robert Smithson and Ilana Halperin.
CORVUS SUMMIT IV | July 4, 2026
Corvus Summit Social Saturday / Featuring Mildred’s Lane Inc. Artist Council Members with Special Presentations, Lectures, Dining, and Events to be announced.
BEING – WELL – BEINGS | Session | July 20-29, 2026
Daily or weekly / With Hope Ginsburg and others TBA.
Think of this as a meditation retreat. Resident-Artists-In-Complexity (RAIC) will be coming and going; all with practices that focus on the interiority of our Being – WELL – Beings.
Our centerpiece RAIC is Hope Ginsburg, whose collaborative Meditation Ocean Project is with us these days of discovery within; Ginsburg proposes ‘the interdependence of individual and communal well-being, the deep connection between humans and kindred species, and the nonduality of the social and the environmental.’ We will follow Hope’s lead in this series of workshops.
Artist and MLINC Council Member Hope Ginsburg guides sitting, walking, and floating where mindfulness and creative practices meet. Most of each day is held in silence with instruction and chances for checking in, while the evenings invite convivial conversation. Experience the Meditation Ocean Constellation in the wilds of Pennsylvania; no prior meditation experience is needed.
FOREST OF THE LIVING BRIDGE | Session | August 9 - 19, 2026
Mark Thomann & Wilding X Why Studio Forest of the Living Bridge begins with the belief that the forest is not scenery but a living force that remembers. The bridge rises from fallen trees as an arrangement of remains. It exists only while the forest permits it, suspended between growth and return. What looks fixed is already dissolving; what appears dead continues to act. The crossing is not an interruption of the landscape but a moment inside it, where passage leaves a trace and memory takes form before slipping back into the system that made it.
In collaboration, we are creating a crossing from the west side of the landscape, over a perennial stream, to the landlocked eastern
Ecology and Cloth | Session | September 8 - 28, 2026
Autumn Session / Day and Weekly participation is accepted / Workshops with Artists to be announced.
We are passing through the first quarter of the 21st century and still not yet manifesting what should be the most important period for radical change in how we think of ecological materials for clothing ourselves and use of cloth in our everyday lives. Recycling has been the obvious turn, but we have not yet discovered what creative thinking in cloth and design can do for the planet.
This three-week series of workshops focus on transformative questioning regarding how we think of cloth, clothing. adaptive reuse, collaboration, speculative, and social thinking – ‘NEXT’ aesthetics and Gallery installation in week three are part of this session.
Fellows will become Resident-Artists-In-Complexity at Mildred’s Lane, Pennsylvania, and create new project works in the project space and studio in Narrowsburg, NY just across the river.
The Mildred Complex(ity) (TMC) Project Space & ANNEX – in conjunction with The Department of Inter-Stitch-iaries – Mildred’s Lane, PA., Art Site – both will feature exhibitions with this select group of artists who are design-thinking-forward for the 21st century.
Workstyles | Session | October 5 - 11, 2026
An Ecological Philosophy for Comportment in the 21st Century. Dates to be announced. Resident-Artists-In-Complex(ity) to be announced in the nest Info-Zine.
Mildred’s Lane is a significant world-making endeavor. Its core philosophy posits that as artists we embody our work and intertwine our lifestyles with it. This necessitates an inventive and rigorous rethinking of the everyday as a process for creative and collective domesticating.
Working in collaboration, we will focus on the whimsical practices unfurling the etymologies of the lexicon of terms, – such as a HOOSH –playfully re-enacting the seventeen Labors that tell the story through system aesthetics of Mildred’s Lane.
ARBOREAL(ity) | Session | October 18 - 26, 2026
Bringing together artists, architects, foresters, conservationists, tree experts, and other creative thinkers to envision the future of this landscape. Daily walks and lectures will accumulate into a study of the possibilities and tactics for a caring collaboration with the forest.
Mildred’s Lane is navigating numerous challenges to sustainability, not least of which is the threat facing our wooded landscape – the Ash and Hemlock trees—two of the land’s principal tree populations—quickly succumb to pestilent insect species.
During our daily hikes, field trips, and discussions with foresters, and naturalists, we will discover more about our environment by identifying trees and recognizing the invasive species that threaten them. We will envision and strategize, outlining how to navigate troubled landscapes in this era of rapid climate change.
Open Meadows at Mildred’s Lane | Retreat
April – May
June 2 – 14
August 31 – September
Continues through late fall
Stay for three days or three weeks.
Mildred’s Lane offers rural landscape engagement.
Featuring hiking trails, forests, streams, pond and river swimming, studio outbuildings, multimedia access, and libraries embedded in a historic landscape bordering Narrowsburg, NY, on the Delaware River.
OPEN MEADOWS is for creative thinkers who need time, space, and inspiration to work on a specific project, write, read, or take a much-deserved retreat from the world. Here is a stunning think tank for you, your friends, your colleagues, and your classroom.
This is real, honest rurality – not fluffed up for commercial purposes; there are no servants – we service each other in an artistic environment overflowing with character and collaboration. Mildred’s Lane offers hospitality through the lens of contemporary art practices in the social and environmental realms.
Visit us through our website or on Instagram. Come for a weekend, a week, a month, or a more extended stay. We provide food, a kitchen laboratory, a great library, and comforts of your choice, ranging from fine glamping to artistic lodging.
Fees start at $200./per day – contact us about packaged experiences.
Collector’s Collective & Brown Paper Package Holiday Fundraiser | Event | November-December, 2026
Details to be announced!
We are building funds for 2027 programming. It is essential that we connect with our colleagues and our donors and forge new relationships for our growth and philanthropy in mind. We will celebrate together with festive events in the city as well as in the country. We seek innovative, creative thinkers who can help us reach our goals! Please inquire for more information and visit our project site, where artists sell work to benefit Mildred’s Lane. ….
