In Common: The In Situ Polyculture Commons Blog

Wassy Bats  by VL4E   Curated by Jacob Rhodes (Field Projects) and Candace Jensen (In Situ Polyculture) Opening July 17, 6pm • On view July 17 – Aug 21, 2025   Featuring: VL4E (Mariana Parisca, Luis Vasquez La Roche, and bryan ortiz)   The exhibition titled Wassy Bats includes a selection of works made in […]
Sometimes the death of someone you didn’t know well leaves you feeling gutted. I met Nathan Suter in San Francisco in 2012; he’d flown west from Vermont to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Root Division, an arts nonprofit he’d co-founded a decade earlier. A decade later, Nathan and I served together on the board of another […]
In spring of 2025, In Situ Polyculture launched a series of salons at the Art Barn— what is a salon? “A salon is a gathering of people held by a host. These gatherings often consciously followed Horace’s definition of the aims of poetry, “either to please or to educate” (Latin: aut delectare aut prodesse). Salons […]
Our residency ethos goes beyond simply studios as fertile creative spaces. We are interested in what nourishes us, and how; Art, Food, and Community. Sharing meals together is one of the informal and very essential ways that we create polyculture— ISPC programming is usually self-catering and folks can expect to be self-responsible for their food […]