Field Guide Archives 2022

Field Guide 2022

Explore Socrates’ unique environment with a series of experimental workshops that combine art making with natural materials, gardening, experiments in sustainability, that celebrate the senses.

Workshops weave together planting, drawing, sound recording, plant and tree identification, learning about medicinal properties of indigenous plants, pickling, bookmaking, and experiments in bioplastics. These workshops will also explore mindfulness techniques, seeking to grow our shared awareness of the natural cycles of the park, and our senses.

The series will result in a book: Field Guide, A Community-made Book of Knowledge, that will be both a collaborative artwork and a guide to the ecology of the park.

These workshops are free, hands on, open to all ages, families and individuals, and any skill level.

Past Field Guide Workshops | 2022

Field Guide 2022

Queens Green Day: Dirtfest 2022 ->

Planting Healing, Pickling, & Pigment Gardens #1–>

Planting Healing, Pickling, & Pigment Gardens #2–>

Bioplastics & Bio-Fashion Show pt. 1–>

Interpreting weather station data / data as art material workshop–>

Seeing Patterns – Micro —> Macro–>

Propagation: Take the park home with you–>

Wildlife Living Among Us – Finding Shelter–>

Inhale; kin –>

Place; dirt –>

Healing / Senses / Healing Plants (workshop 1 of 3) –>

Healing / Senses / Healing Plants (workshop 2 of 3) –>

Healing / Senses / Healing Plants (workshop 3 of 3) –>

Bio-plastics fashion show: Part 2 –>

Blending and Defending for the Next Generation –>

Healing / Senses / Healing Plants (workshop 1 of 3) –>

Preserving food –>

Sustenance; fires –>