Opening Celebration
\nThe Socrates Annual 2024<\/p>\n
Saturday, September 14, 2024
\n3 – 5 pm
\nFree, RSVP encouraged<\/p>\n
The Artist Fellows
\nKimberly Chou Tsun An, Jill Cohen-Nu\u00f1ez,\u00a0Utsa Hazarika,\u00a0Landon Newton,\u00a0Mamoun Nukumanu,\u00a0Juan-Manuel Pinzon,\u00a0Vick Quezada,\u00a0Petra Szilagyi,\u00a0Nala C. Turner<\/p>\n
Each year Socrates presents an exhibition of new commissions made by artists selected through an Open Call. Featuring new works produced on-site by the Artist Fellows,\u00a0The Socrates Annual 2024 exhibition addresses the theme of “Invasive Species,” considering the legacies of species migration alongside sociopolitical themes and myths of invasion related to people, animals, and plants. These projects consider the politics of settlement, illuminate ancestral agricultural technologies, facilitate human \u2013 land interactions and propose symbiotic resonances for earth\u2019s future inhabitants.<\/p>\n
The Socrates Annual 2024 opening celebration\u00a0free and open to the public and will include activations and performances initiated by Artist Fellows.
\nActivations 3pm – 4pm: Join artist Kimberly Chou Tsun An for a late-summer harvest of medicinal herbs from her work \u201cYours, Mine, Ours\u201d as well as other artworks and perennial plantings in the park. Learn about plant allies, share knowledge, and help bundle and process DIY tea blends to share with community \u2014 and to enjoy on site and take home.<\/p>\n
She’ll be joined by special guest\u00a0Li Schmidt (she\/her), a Taiwanese American farmer based in Winters, California (unceded Patwin land), founder of Cultural Roots Nursery. Established in 2020, Cultural Roots Nursery aims to heal\u00a0the connection between the Asian diaspora and ancestral foodways by increasing the abundance and availability of culturally important heritage plants.<\/p>\n
4:30pm: Artist Vick Quezada will activate Juan Deere, a converted commercial John Deere lawn mower that has been transformed into a raised-bed garden of teosinte grass, retrofitted with a cascading steel frame. For this durational performance they will mow the grass in the Park. About The Fellowship
\nThe Socrates Annual Fellowship and exhibition reflects Socrates\u2019 founding commitment to artistic experimentation and excellence, while also nurturing artists\u2019 careers. Artists are selected through an open call and receive financial support, access to Socrates\u2019 outdoor studios and technical support, and inclusion in a Park-wide exhibition. Since 2001, 279 artists have participated with many subsequently receiving further commissions for public art projects.\u00a0The Socrates Annual Fellowship & Exhibition is one of the Park\u2019s longest running programs and is an important training ground for early career artists to gain experience creating art in the public realm.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":7553,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"event-category":[],"class_list":["post-7552","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/socratessculpturepark-2026.kudos.nyc\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/7552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/socratessculpturepark-2026.kudos.nyc\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/socratessculpturepark-2026.kudos.nyc\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/event"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/socratessculpturepark-2026.kudos.nyc\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/socratessculpturepark-2026.kudos.nyc\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"event-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/socratessculpturepark-2026.kudos.nyc\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event-category?post=7552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}