CoVictory Gardens

Sheila Novak
Summer 2020 Artist in Residence
June 24 - September 2, 2020

CoVictory Gardens is a socially engaged art project, seeking to cultivate connection and illustrate social solidarity amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. The project is durational, like the pandemic, acknowledging that gardening can provide seasonal and durational engagement and healing over the course of the year.

Sheila Novak is an interdisciplinary artist and arts administrator living and working in Boston, MA. Her projects create spaces and opportunities for others to explore how we can grow and connect, how vulnerability can bring us into more authentic relationships with each other, and what healing looks like on individual and communal levels. Currently, Sheila serves as the Public Art Project Manager for the Greenway Conservancy. She has eight years of experience in the nonprofit arts sector intersecting creative practice with public art, creative placemaking and arts equity. Novak is committed to producing and creating art in social and public spaces.

As an Artist in Residence at Urbano Project, Sheila will engage youth artists in a process of exploring many aspects of a socially engaged art practice, as well as the methods and tools to both consider how to cultivate their own garden, as well as how to create practices that are socially engaged. From exploring the history and implication of social art practices to creating their own garden to engaging with specific skills from logo design to interviewing, Youth Artists will build tools for creating their own projects.

WATCH THE RECORDING OF OUR VIRTUAL SHOWCASE
Wednesday, September 23rd, 6:00 - 7:30 PM

RADICAL HEALING | ARTISTS CONVERSATIONS

Monday, July 21st, 5:00 PM with Prosperity Garden Network, Oregon (PO)