Projects
STRATA
March 29 - May 3, 2025
An exhibition and place-based investigation/ reflection on the layers that time imprints on the landscape. Cultivate’s research focused on the town and surroundings of Hancock, Maryland.
STRATA
Maryland Sea Grant/Cultivate:
Art-Science Collaboration
Maryland Sea Grant’s Art Meets Science pilot project collaborated with Cultivate to engage scientists and artists in networking and training events around art-science collaboration.
Maryland Sea Grant is hosting an exhibition with work by Cultivate artists.
Exhibition reception: December 16, 12 - 2 PM
RSVP for the exhibition reception here
Without Title
March 18 – 26, 2023
How do we individually and collectively cultivate? How do we approach landscape and relations with land?
Without Title suggests the potential of working without a singular designation and beyond boundaries of ownership. The exhibition offers a glimpse of varied practices that explore the qualities, perceptions, contexts, and systems that inform and expand notions of landscape.
Cultivate Grant Awardee
Inga Adda presents Walk This Way — a self-guided, participatory walk in the woods which encourages play, observation, and appreciation for the natural environment in Montgomery County. While walking along Kingsley Trail in Little Bennett Regional Park, participants will encounter various prompts, and hypothetical questions posted on signs throughout the trail asking them to examine the natural world.
Walk This Way
Meeting Ground
Cultivate cross-pollinator Meeting Ground is a collaborative collection of projects that considers the ground as a point of entry to shared space where interconnection between earth and self, individual and other is made visible.
Conversations: Over Circles
Cultivate is pleased to present a screening of new work by artists Sobia Ahmad and Monroe Isenberg. Conversations: Over Circles is the first in a series of performances by the artists. The screening took place on February 22, 2020.
Sailing Stones Act
Cultivate Grant Awardee
MIA EVE ROLLOW presents an immersive video installation exhibition at VisArts July 7, 2020 - January 3, 2021. Featuring performances made in collaboration with individuals and communities in Mexico, India, and Palestine over a ten year period. Bodies move across the land powered by poetic acts of resistance and transformation. So honored to work with Mia! Cultivate’s first grant awardee!
ART MEETS SCIENCE
Art Meets Science
Cultivate and Maryland Sea Grant Collaboration
Art is a method for people to connect, reflect, and understand scientific concepts in diverse ways beyond traditional scientific outreach. Maryland Sea Grant initiated a pilot project to collaborate with Cultivate to develop resources (i.e., webinars, collaboration profiles, online resources) for the scientific community on best practices for artist collaboration as well as creating a networking and training event to incubate new project proposals for external funding.
The project goal is to forge connections between artists and scientists and best practices particularly in response to these questions: How to use art as a medium of outreach?; How to bring Sea Grant work to a larger audience?; How to partner and communicate with an artist or scientist and why?; What strategies make for successful collaborations?; How to create a local network/databank for collaborations?
The exhibition features individual and collaborative artwork from a selection of Cultivate artists including:
Maggie Gourlay, Katie Kehoe, Susan Main, Murat Cem Mengüç, MJ Neuberger, Elzibieta Sikorska, Lynn Silverman, and Sue Wrbican.
View the webinars here
RSVP for the exhibition reception here
More information: Maryland Sea Grant
STRATA
CULTIVATE REFLECTS ON THE PHENOMENON OF STRATA
STRATA is an exhibition of artists responding to the theme Strata as broadly as befits their practice and in relation to the town of Hancock, Maryland. Strata are the geological layers that time imprints on the landscape, they are the history lessons that leave treasures like pottery shards and fossils for historians, anthropologists, archeologists and paleontologists to find and use them to weave stories that reinterpret and reimagine our past. More broadly, strata can refer to family lineages, traces of dna that connect the past to the present in our bodies and minds, or can be connected to a particular site or landscape, as in historical environmental patterns no longer present but still creating evolutionary or socio-economic repercussions.
When considering a map of the town of Hancock and its surrounding area, it can also be seen as having layers. Part of an historic “strata” the town’s Main Street is parallel to I-70, the C&O bike path (formerly the C&O rail line), the C&O Canal and its towpath, and the Potomac River.
SPECIAL GUEST POETS: DAVID ABRUZZI AND CHRISSY ALHART
