The Feral Hues of Ellie Irons and A Climate Meditation for Solo Drumset with Curt Newton
Improv Spaces presents an evening artist talk and hands-on workshop to explore the Feral Hues project of Troy-based interdisciplinary artist Ellie Irons and a contemplative offering by Boston-based percussionist Curt Newton with his “A Climate Meditation for Solo Drumset” at Saratoga Arts. Ellie Irons’s practice spans publicly engaged work — including with the artist collective the Environmental Performance Agency and her work with artist Anne Percoco as The Next Epoch Seed Library — to the nuanced paintings made from colors she creates from the berries, blossoms, and leaves of the plants from urban and disturbed habitats she creates with her Feral Hues project, online component, and book that is now on its third printing. She has previously brought the public on walking tours related to Feral Hues as part of her practice, and will be offering a hands on workshop and artist talk to open this special evening program.
The workshop will be followed by a performance by percussionist Curt Newton. Newton’s work ranges from free jazz ensemble work and his solo percussion. His performance “A Climate Meditation on Solo Drumset” has previously been performed at the MIT Chapel in 2024. His solo drumset work began in 1996, with his adaptation of Witold Lutoslawski’s String Quartet. His recent solo performances are completely improvised and he notes “often with a dedication to our miraculous yet threatened natural world and vibrant web of non-human relations.” We are excited to bring this performance with Iron’s workshop to the community to share these unique experiences with you and to think together about the quickly changing world in which we are enmeshed and our place within in it.
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