Art in the Garden: Mini Altars for Remembrance
Schedule
Thu Oct 30 2025 at 05:00 pm to 06:00 pm
UTC-04:00Location
The Greenhouse and Education Center at Denny Farrell Riverbank State Park | New York, NY
About this Event
Join us as Día de Muertos (Day of the Dead) approaches, to gather and learn from this day of rememberance to craft our own meaning and honor our own unique lineages.
Across the world, people have created altars and offerings to honor loved ones, express gratitude, and mark the cycles of life and death—from Mexican ofrendas and Nicho boxes, to German Erntedankfest tables, Hindu pujas, and Irish fairy offerings . . . the list goes on!
In this workshop, we’ll create our own mini altar assemblages—small, heartfelt boxes that reflect personal or ancestral connections. Join us in using upcycled and natural materials, and herbal creations to adorn these boxes, transforming them into altars we can take to infuse our own meaning-making.
This is an invitation to honor your own lineage, wherever it may lead, and to engage in this cultural season with care, respect to sacred day in Mexican culture, and creativity.
Your Facilitator: Shenna Hurt
Shenna is the High Priestess behind Sheofthestarz, a sanctuary of ritual, remembrance, and everyday magic. Through sound, ceremony, and the medicine of plants, she opens portals for healing and connection between the living and the ancestral. Her work is a weaving of spirit, art, and starlight, guiding others to remember who they are and where they come from.
Join us for Art in the Garden every Thursday!
Grounded in the garden, join us to critically and creatively engage in a diversity of artmaking techniques that open us up to deeper dialogue on place, our relationships to our lived environments, ecological concerns, and contemporary culture. Learn meditative and mindful drawing, printmaking and sculptural techniques, scientific observation with plant portraiture, nature-inspired intuitive artmaking and mixed media exploration, and other various practices from botanical and ecologically-focused contemporary artists to create works of art to nurture your relationship to the garden.
Immerse yourself in the learning garden, greenhouse, and across Riverbank State Park's green roof overlooking the Hudson River to create artwork that is rooted in place and in partnership with plants.
Workshops are rain or shine.
When inside the greenhouse and kitchen we will open our double-doors and windows to vent the space and encourage masking and social distancing when in more closed-in spaces.
Accessibility: Our kitchen/classroom space is wheelchair accessible. With prior planning, we can add a few small mats onto the pebbled ground of greenhouse to make a small wheel-chair accessible path. Our learning garden has grass paths, and the entrance is through a gate with a small, raised entrance. Our tables can be lowered/raised, and we have several backless benches or stools. Our kitchen is in regular use, and while we try to cook without peanuts, much of our cookware is shared and we cannot guarantee a nut-free environment. We have a first aid kit, and the closest AED is in another building several yards away. Drinking water is made available in refillable pitchers.
Our closest bathrooms are a building away, about a one-minute walk. A gender neutral bathroom is also available, and this is accessible by key which you can request from staff. We are not a scent-free zone, and because herbalism classes take place here, cannot guarantee that the site will be clear of any essential oil smells. If you have needs not addressed here, please reach out to Mallory Craig at [email protected].
Where is it happening?
The Greenhouse and Education Center at Denny Farrell Riverbank State Park, 679 Riverside Dr, New York, United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
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