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Earth/Sky:
An Education Program

**The Earth Sky program will resume in 2021**

Throughout 2020 and 2021, we are curating an experience-based learning program in Minneapolis/St. Paul called Earth/Sky. We will be exploring creativity through a variety of events situated within our natural landscape and we’ll be looking toward the skies. This program was inspired by artists Torey Erin and Peng Wu’s 2019 Field Experience event, Impermanence. The event was timed around the sunset which highlighted how our temporal rhythms are guided by the sun and moon. While both looking at our natural landscape and up toward the sky we were able to see our planet, our community, and ourselves from a new perspective. This year we will continue to explore the sun, stars, moon, and other visible parts of the cosmos in relationship to our landscape.

We are partnering with local and international artists, designers, astronomers, cosmologists and geologists to craft experiences for our community. The programs will be free and open to the public. We have an events calendar with programming updates, and a reading list where we post articles, chapters and other forms of inspiration to accompany the programs.

Our 2020 programs are grounded in the following ideas:

1. Local Landscape We continue to ask questions about how our relationship to the natural world influences our creativity. We aim to expand creative practice through new ways of engaging with our local landscape, our planet, and the cosmos. Our programming will be shaped in response to the changing seasons.

2. Place-Based Pedagogy One of the fundamental goals of the Field Experience program is to build community in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area and to foster a deeper connection to place through creative learning experiences. We recognize the history of place, and that we are working on Dakota and Ojibwe land.

3. Experiential and Sensorial Inquiry The modes of inquiry for the program are embodied, experienced-based, and multi-sensory. We encourage everyone to get out of their offices, studios, and classrooms and into the world. In order to engage the senses, the events will primarily be outdoors, with the exception of the deep winter months when our extreme climate brings us indoors.

4. Creative Experimentation Many of our programs will offer an opportunity for making - either in the moment or when you return to your home or studio. We want to encourage people to make things that may not be central to their practice and to push the boundaries of creative experimentation. We also have questions about how spending time in nature can inspire new possibilities for creative practice.

Image Credits

The Great Nebula near Eta Carinae, Bart J. Bok and Priscilla F. Bok, “The Milky Way”, 1974. (sourced from Crystal Voyager)
Moonbathing screenshot from Moonshine and Valentine, 2018.

Earth/Sky: An Education Program

Earth/Sky:
An Education Program