EDEN GROVE ARTIST IN RESIDENCE PROGRAM
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    • INSIGHT FROM ELDER BILL JONES
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    • RANDE COOK
    • TONY GROVE
    • JEREMY HERNDL
    • GORD HILL
    • JORDAN HILL
    • HEATHER KAI SMITH
    • MIKE ANDREW McLEAN
    • CONNIE MICHELE MOREY
    • KEN MINER
    • DAWNA MUELLER
    • CAREY NEWMAN
    • KELLY RICHARDSON
    • VALERIE SALEZ
    • KYLE SCHEURMANN
    • PAUL WALDE
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    • STILL STANDING: ANCIENT FOREST FUTURES, 2022
    • LAST STAND: ANCIENT FORESTS, COLLECTIVE ACTION, 2021
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STILL STANDING: ANCIENT FOREST FUTURES
Legacy Gallery, 2022
CURATORIAL STATEMENT

Standing in an ancient temperate rainforest and exchanging
breath with thousand year old trees can profoundly alter our
perception of nature and time. Feeling gratitude for the forest's
life-support systems can help mend the disconnections
engendered by colonialism and consumer culture.

Still Standing: Ancient Forest Futures brings together Indigenous
and non-indigenous artists to create space for dialogue about
old growth from a range of perspectives. The exhibition explores
the intersections of art, ecology, and activism, creating fertile
ground for new forms of cross-disciplinary praxis.
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In this time of climate crisis, art is essential. Artists offer new
perspectives and embodied experiences that can move us past
paralysis and into action. Like ecologists, many artists observe
and reveal relationships which lead to new connections. Art can
also expand our capacity to feel ecological grief and thereby
transform it. Hope and resistance, like art-making, are tenacious
creative processes of actualizing visions and taking risks in
order to forge new futures - futures which include standing
ancient forests.

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS

Rande Cook
Jeremy Herndl
Gord Hill
Jordan Hill
Heather Kai Smith
Mike Andrew McLean
Connie Michele Morey
Carey Newman
​Kelly Richardson
Valerie Salez
Kyle Scheurmann
Paul Walde

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  • HOME
  • ABOUT
    • INSIGHT FROM ELDER BILL JONES
    • CONTEXT
    • MISSION
    • STORY
    • PRESS
    • TEAM
  • ARTISTS
    • RANDE COOK
    • TONY GROVE
    • JEREMY HERNDL
    • GORD HILL
    • JORDAN HILL
    • HEATHER KAI SMITH
    • MIKE ANDREW McLEAN
    • CONNIE MICHELE MOREY
    • KEN MINER
    • DAWNA MUELLER
    • CAREY NEWMAN
    • KELLY RICHARDSON
    • VALERIE SALEZ
    • KYLE SCHEURMANN
    • PAUL WALDE
  • EXHIBITIONS
    • STILL STANDING: ANCIENT FOREST FUTURES, 2022
    • LAST STAND: ANCIENT FORESTS, COLLECTIVE ACTION, 2021
  • RESOURCES
  • CONTACT