Events at the Schuylkill Center invite people to play, learn, and grow with nature as part of their everyday lives. Our events range from festivals to classes to volunteer opportunities to hikes through our 365-acre nature preserve. Explore our events calendar to find your next outdoor adventure.
Art Workshop with Harvested Natural Materials
April 12 @ 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
Free
Harvest natural materials to make collaborative artwork with artist Sarah Kavage. Sarah Kavage is a Seattle-based artist who creates large-scale public art projects that call attention to ecological processes and human relationships with place.
In 2021, Kavage and Yaroub Al Obaidi collaborated on Al Mudhif – A Confluence at the Schuylkill Center, bringing community members together to build a traditional Iraqi Mudhif from locally harvested Phragmites. She returns this year to collaborate with choreographer Silvana Cardell on sculptural set pieces for TERRA: Bodies and Territories, an immersive dance performance that premieres at the Schuylkill Center in June. Workshop participants will use natural materials to create artwork related to TERRA.
Registration is required in advance for this free program. Participants of all ages and abilities are welcome. No previous art-making experience required.
About Sarah Kavage
Sarah Kavage is a Seattle based visual artist and cultural organizer who creates public projects that call attention to ecological processes and human relationships with place. Made from simple natural materials, her work is largely ephemeral and brings function, tradition, and craft into a dialogue about public space and social engagement.
She has created ephemeral public artwork around the country, making work along and about the Duwamish River, Seattle’s only river, for nearly two decades. From 2018-2021 she served as a lead artist for Lenapehoking~Watershed, an ambitious multi-site project about the Delaware River Watershed. She is a recipient of the Anonymous Was a Woman Environmental Art Grant, the Robert B MacMillen Foundation Artist Fellowship, and grants from the City of Seattle, 4Culture, and ArtPlace America, among others. She holds a BFA from Ohio Wesleyan University and a Masters’ Degree in Urban Planning from the University of Washington.
Major support for TERRA has been provided by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, with additional support from Georgian Court University, and the 2025 Creative Sector Flex Fund, a program by the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts.
