About this Event
Bring your seeds and plants to exchange/swap at the healing garden on April 3rd from 2:30-4 p.m.! Jersey-City-based artist and Rutgers Alum Anne Percoco, who often works with found materials and is part of the artist collaborative team of The Next Epoch Seed Library, will be at the garden holding a special workshop and creating a seed time capsule for us to hold in the Healing Garden.
We will be thinking about plants, the terms we use to refer to them and nature, and our climate futures.
After the workshop, come with us to see artist Andrea Haenggi’s performance at the Paul Robeson Center Gallery from 5-7 pm!
About the artist
Anne Percoco
After earning her M.F.A. from Rutgers University, Anne Percoco completed an Asian Cultural Council fellowship for research and production of new work in India. She has presented solo shows at Chitrakala Parishath College of Art (Bangalore, India) as well as NURTUREart and A.I.R. Gallery (both in Brooklyn), ArtBloc and Casa Colombo (Jersey City). Awards include a public sculpture commission from the Randall’s Island Park Alliance in NYC, the Bronx Museum’s Artist-In-the-Marketplace Program, and the Foundation for Contemporary Art’s Emergency Grant.
In addition to maintaining her own art practice, Percoco co-founded the Next Epoch Seed Library, along with Ellie Irons. NESL is a seed library dedicated to self-seeded plants that thrive in environments heavily impacted by humans (weeds). These plants are our indispensable companions as we inhabit novel ecosystems and journey through climate chaos together. Through presentations, workshops, seed-swaps and exhibitions, NESL encourages participants to engage with their local habitat and reflect on their own role in the adaptation and success of these plants.
Her work will be shown at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum at St. Louis in 2025 and has previously appeared nationally at venues such as the Anchorage Museum (Alaska), Wave Hill (Bronx, NY), the Islip Arts Museum (Long Island), and the U.S.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Clement A. Price Institute on Ethnicity, Culture & the Modern Experience, 49 Bleeker Street, Newark, United States
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