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LAUNCH PARTY: Women-Led Action for Ecological Justice, Interdisciplinary Arts and Education in Brooklyn
On Saturday, January 25, 2025, from 12pm-late, we’ll be celebrating the opening of Our Temenos' new studio at 454 Lafayette Avenue and launching Artemis, a non-profit dedicated to building ecological literacy and fostering resilience in the face of climate challenges through accessible interdisciplinary arts and educational programming.
Event Highlights:
Art Installation: Soil-Sand-Selfie by Xinan Helen Ran
Interactive Workshops: Screen printing with Du Good Press and sustainable design with Lagoon NY
Sound: Poetry reading by Ellie Parker followed by a set by experimental cellist, Dorothy Carlos
Performance: A Spell is a Protest by Samantha Sea Sea
Panel Discussion: Featuring Our Temenos founder Rosemarie Miner, Citizens’ Climate Lobby, and other ecological leaders
Auction: Including giveaways from Xinan Helen Ran, Synthia Studio, Our Temenos, Bike Plant, Platonic Love Vintage, and more!
Food & Drink: Thoughtfully curated by Rhodora Wine, Peculiar Coffee and Briscola.
This event is more than just a studio launch, it’s a powerful demonstration of how the interdisciplinary arts, grassroots organizing and community-driven and community driven solutions can address the climate crisis. This event will also serve as a fundraiser specifically supporting Artemis' internship-apprenticeship program, for youth in the green-economy!
Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/our-temenos-x-artemis-launch-party-tickets-1120882633129?aff=oddtdtcreator
Fundraiser: https://givebutter.com/ZeqKkS
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- Du-Good Press is a fine art screenprinting studio based in Brooklyn, NY. Founded by Leslie Diuguid, Du-Good Press is the first Black female owned fine art screen printing business in New York. Since founding the Press, Diuguid has collaboratively printed editions for artists, designers, and institutions, and is dedicated to supporting artists and increasing access to art collecting.
- Dorothy Carlos is an experimental cellist based in Chicago. Her work merges glitch with free improvisation. Solo performances have been presented internationally by Big Ears Festival, default, Center for New Music and Associated Technologies (CNMAT) at UC Berkeley, e-flux, Experimental Sound Studio Chicago, and the Chicago Jazz String Summit. Her most recent release Split came out in 2024 on D.O.T. Audio Arts.
- Lagoon New York is a store, gallery, and event space. Co-opened by sustainable designers Amalya Meira & Logan Blagg, Lagoon functions as a multifaceted space, reflecting eclectic inspirations and attitudes. In the Lagoon, Amalya and Logan’s wearable art is created & available for sale alongside complementary creations in the realms of art, body, jewelry and housewares. The space also operates as a gallery featuring local artists of various mediums. The intention behind the space is grounded in sustainability, connection to nature and community engagement.
- Xinan Helen Ran is an artist who specializes in fabric, language, and found objects to construct emotional landscapes. She searches for the point where trauma, nihilism, and humor converge. Ranked “Highbrow and Brilliant” by the New York Magazine Matrix, Xinan has exhibited nationally and internationally at Inna Art Space (Hangzhou, China), Essex Flowers (New York), Hauser & Wirth (New York), and collaborated on public projects with Harvard Peabody Museum of Archaeology (Cambridge, MA), Clover Nature (Shanghai, China), Acompi (New York) and Beam Center (Governors Island, New York). Apart from her studio practice, Xinan is an art educator, an art administrator and an aspirational set designer for new theaters.
- Samantha Sea Sea is a New York based, New York native performance artist who works with video, sound, movement, poetry and the human voice. Their work explores multiple themes such as inter generational hopes/traumas/joy, Afro Futurism, magical realism, mental health, Black spiritual traditions, and connection to water. She started working in performance in 2015 after participating in a series of ensemble performances directed by Monica Mirabile. Samantha has performed at Wild Project, Secret Project Robot, MoMA PS1, Essex Flowers, La Plaza Cultural Community Garden and Roulette Intermedium among many other spaces. Most recently she completed a residency at Otion Front Studio. In 2023 she started a pop up performance venue/curatorial project called irrelevent art space that showcases performance art, poetry, and music, and strived to create an environment where people could bring their young children to shows. This project, currently on hiatus, was inspired by Samantha’s experience of becoming a parent and realizing how few forward thinking family friendly venues existed in NYC.
- Ellie Parker is an artist based in Brooklyn by way of Los Angeles. Her work is interdisciplinary by nature, harmonizing poetic text, the moving image, and photography. Passionate about communal practice, Ellie is a Teaching Artist for youth film and photo education at BRIC Media, and has taught media workshops to youth & adults with other organizations such as The Echo Park Film Center and Mono No Aware. While working on her forthcoming chapbook, A Single Take, Ellie is co-organizing a series of free media workshops with the Maysles Cinema thanks to generous funding from the EPFC. Ellie's visual and poetic works have screened internationally and throughout the US.
- Bella Thorpe-Woods is a British curator, interdisciplinary artist and writer based in Brooklyn. They are the co-founder of Little by little Brooklyn (Lxl), a nascent art organisation based that they direct around other full-time work. Bella’s work reacts to the exclusivity, codes of behavior and regimes of in/visibility of institutionalised art spaces. They treat curation not as an object of study, but as a room to commune and be un/schooled in. They like to curate small and curate together, encouraging relational ontologies, new modes of collectivity and alternative systems of value. They often explores the social, architectural, physical, psychological and theoretical modalities of corners, using them as starting points for reimagining the implications of centre spaces, and figures central to those spaces. In an effort to redress the beautiful shit gathering dust in the recesses of the room, they propose corners as an alternative social centre, queering normative perspectives and orientations in the process. This angle of inclination contrasts with the individuated rootedness, rectitude and geometries of acquisition found in more traditional presenting organisations.
What is Our Temenos?
Our Temenos is a women-led, worker-owned ecological landscaping company based in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, working across all four boroughs. We provide residential design, installation, and maintenance services, as well as professional stewardship for public lands. Our focus is on ecologically functional green infrastructure, including street tree planting and care, stormwater management, invasive species removal, and expert installation of softscapes.
We’ve proudly partnered with NYC DEP, NYC Department of Parks, and organizations like the Laundromat Project, Queens Library, and Marvel. We are building the green infrastructure business our future demands by employing and mentoring environmental and horticulture professionals with diverse abilities and experiences, supporting their growth in an industry eager for new career-level experts.
What is Artemis?
Since the inception of Our Temenos, we’ve dreamed of creating arts, educational, and ecological programming to foster collaboration, experiment with new ideas, and prioritize
alternative systems of value.
Now, with our new studio, this dream is becoming a reality through the launch of Artemis, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, in Spring 2025. Artemis is committed to building ecological literacy and fostering a more resilient community in the face of climate challenges. Our programs center justice, reciprocity, and skill-building for a livable future. Operating out of the Our Temenos studio after hours, Artemis will offer sliding-scale and free workshops, artist-in-residence opportunities, expanded community partnerships, and personal development initiatives for youth in the green economy. These programs will also help our employees access essential work gear and wellness resources, while also reserving opportunities for NYCHA residents to engage in programming.
Why Us and Why Now?
Our launch party is a fundraiser supporting our internship program and expanding access to free and low-cost ecology and interdisciplinary arts programming. With forecasted reductions in funding for environmental initiatives, we are committed to sustaining programs that integrate ecological awareness with creative and accessible
frameworks. Our mission is to create opportunities where social justice, environmental activism, and creative exploration intersect, offering innovative solutions to today’s most pressing challenges.
Tickets:
454 Lafayette Ave,
Brooklyn NY, 11205
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