Art, education, and nonprofit leadership at the nexus of culture and ecology
Featured Projects
Featured
2015-Present
Co-founded by Tal Beery and Eugenia Manwelyan in 2015, Arts & Ecology Incorporated supports artists and organizations exploring the connections between nature and culture.
Unison Arts (New Paltz, NY)
Jun 26-Oct 20, 2022
An outdoor sculptural exhibition in which installations challenge notions of domination over our environments and imagine alternatives based on mutuality and reverence.
Image: Sam Spillman, Bad Mouth (2021)
Jewish Museum of Maryland (Baltimore, MD)
Mar 24 – May 18, 2021
An outdoor installation and online space to gather testimonials from Maryland residents who have had to say goodbye or memorialize their loved ones under conditions of social distancing.
Published in Art Papers
Summer 2020
“If we are to create a plurality of worlds guided by reverence and mutuality, it is particularly important for art-thinkers to organize new cultural institutions.”
2010-2019
A desk-free school for ecological justice, bridging the gap between learning and doing. Immersive programs for college students, recent grads, and adult learners in the NYC/Catskills bioregion.
Published in Temporary Art Review
Jan 2, 2018
“Instituent practices seem to have arisen from the desire to constitute frameworks that prolong fleeting moments of utopian possibility.”
Dolly Maass Gallery (Purchase College, NY)
Apr 5-19, 2017
A multimedia installation inspired by research and speculation into the nature of contemporary institutions, and the language, aesthetics, and assumptions governing their behaviors.
Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art (New York)
Mar 13-Jun 11, 2017
Debtfair (a project of Occupy Museums) is a means of exposing the hidden layer of debt within the art market and its institutions, making visible the relationships between art practices and financial realities in the U.S.
Pioneer Works & Sunview Luncheonette (Brooklyn, NY)
2016-2018
A platform for collaborative, interdisciplinary examination of creative practice and notions of survival. SoA offers courses and programming that seek to develop new modes of inquiry and apply broader levels of experience to intellectual investigation.
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
Apr 26, 2015
A group of 12 artists and scientists assembled for an eight-hour performance in the Roman Sculpture Court, delving into democratic origin myths through discussion, movement, sketching, and play.