Picnic Gathering: Standing Sun | Standing Still

Responding to the sun as it stands still on summer solstice, join artists Katie Coughlin and Cat Mailloux for a morning of community and play centered around a picnic blanket that shifts in size to accommodate its participants. Parks are public spaces that are shared and shaped by how we inhabit them together and individually; gather with us as we explore our relationship to opennethermeadground, light and sky.

Families and children are especially welcome, and drinks and snacks are encouraged. This is an open-house style picnic, come and go as you wish.

Directions:

Enter on 9th Street from Prospect Park West, walk past the dog pond towards the boathouse, just past Center Drive to the Nethermead-  west of the boathouse, east of the baseball fields. 

Alternatively, enter off Ocean Avenue onto East Lake Drive, go past the Camperdown Elm, and cross the boathouse pond to the Nethermead. Look for us in the field!

Drop Pin Location: 40.661198, -73.967488

ABOUT THE ARTISTS:

Katie Coughlin

Katie Coughlin received her MFA from The Ohio State University(2018) and her BFA from Alfred University(2010). Her work pulls from remembered observances; through a slow dive into material (primarily clay & cloth), old memories soften and fold into my self-defined rememberings. Harnessing traces of memory to expand and incorporate the human body, vessels are created alongside sculptural objects. Katie has been an Artist in Residence at Red Lodge Clay Center and Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts. She has received multiple awards, including the Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award from the International Sculpture Center, the Warren Mackenzie Advancement Award from Northern Clay Center, and a 2020 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship. A native New Yorker, Katie returned to the city in 2018 and lives and works in Brooklyn. She recently opened a neighborhood teaching studio - Ovington Pottery, in Southern Brooklyn.

Cat Mailloux

Cat Mailloux is a fiber artist working across quilting, sculpture, and installation, based in Columbus, OH. She is an Associate Professor of Studio Art at Cedarville University and holds an MFA in Sculpture from Ohio State University. Her work has been exhibited nationally in galleries such as Women Made Gallery (Chicago), Skylab Gallery (Columbus), and the Museum of Herzegovina (Bosnia and Herzegovina). She has attended residencies at Vermont Studio Centers, PADA Studios in Portugal, and Walkaway House in Massachusetts. Mailloux is the recipient of grants from the Greater Columbus Arts Council, Cedarville University, and The Ohio State University.

WORK-IN-PROGRESS residency

Textile Arts Center’s Work in Progress (TAC WIP) is a window into the studio practice of contemporary artists and designers that engages the public in a dialogue with the field of textiles.⁠