Salt Stories: After the Tears
Participatory one-to-one performance by Alexis Elton
SATURDAY, August 1, 1:30-4p signup required
During the performance, you will meet the artist inside an installation and share a personal story about salt. The collected salt stories will be part of an upcoming installation by the artist.
Salt Stories is a multimedia project that fosters personal connections to regenerative practices, landscape histories, and cultural practices. Through sculpture, performance, historical research, and community story sharing, this project serves to spark curiosity about one of the most accessible, ubiquitous, and marvelous elements on our planet. Salt Stories is not limited to humans, but includes animals, plants, and geologic narratives. This project has been awarded support from the New York State Council of the Arts, Soil Factory, and Glasshouse Project.
Alexis Elton is an artist working with site-as-material to form connections with plants, soil, and other living beings. Her work creates ephemeral sensory encounters where art and agrarian systems meet. Committed to exploring place, her work continues to take form through native seed-saving initiatives, farm and art education programs, and food production. Merging everyday tasks of land-based living with studio art sensibility, she creates opportunities to experience the natural world through physical labor, slowness, and the senses. Alexis earned a BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and has shown her work internationally and nationally including Kochi Muziris Biennale, Kochi, India; 5 x 5, Washington, DC; Kingston Sculpture Biennale, Kingston, and NY; 516 Arts, Albuquerque, NM. She has received awards from Joan Mitchell Foundation, Santa Fe Art Institute, NYFA, and American Museum of Natural History, among others. Alexis lives in the Hudson Valley, NY. . alexiselton.com/