This special evening celebrating the summer solstice is organized by the artist Ellen Harvey & members of the artist collective, Hilma’s Ghost. During the evening, visitors are invited to participate in rituals designed around the new site-specific installation, Winter in the Summer House, to usher in the formal start to the new season. Hilma’s Ghost is an artist collective that uses gathering and participatory practices to engage with themes of myth-making, ritual, and belief. On this summer evening, participants will explore ideas around seasonality and how we connect to the climate around us and each other.

The program is FREE and members of the public are encouraged to attend. The program will begin outside the front of the historic house at 5pm and be followed by a short walk to Winter in the Summer House. Under the longest day’s golden embrace, we will weave intentions of growth and liberation, planting seeds of change that will flourish in the fertile darkness to come. As we heal ourselves, we will ask for healing for our planet and its icecaps.

Dannielle Tegeder is a New York-based artist whose recent work has focused on feminism, alternative pedagogies, and the spiritual. In 2020, along with Sharmistha Ray, she co-founded the collective Hilma’s Ghost which conducts experimental pedagogy, transcultural dialogue, and collectivity through the lens of feminism and spirituality. Most recently, Hilma’s Ghost conducted an evening of performance, color magic and ritual with Eve Biddle at the Guggenheim Museum. Ellen Harvey’s Winter in the Summer House is a fantastical recreation of artist Frederic Church’s lost summer house, made entirely out of gold-framed mirrors engraved with a hand-drawn scene of melting glaciers protesting their fate. The installation is part of the exhibition What’s Missing? on view through November 2. To learn more, visit this link.