Upcoming Exhibitions 2026
500 Dams: Art, Ecology, and Radical Care at Anaya Springs
A Project of the Survival Kit Collective
Cedra Wood, 500 Dams – Towards a Return of Anaya Springs, 2024, still from digital animation (from graphite and watercolor drawings), with sound, 1 minute, 16 seconds, courtesy of the artist and Survival Kit Collective
500 Dams: Art, Ecology, and Radical Care at Anaya Springs brings together art and science to create a portrait of the ongoing effort of the Survival Kit Collective to regenerate the grasslands of Anaya Springs, New Mexico. Rooted in a decades-long, daily practice of building small dams using only the rocks on hand, the project is an example of topophilia—the bond of care we form with a specific place—and how that bond can propel environmental change. 500 Dams is a project about the efforts of a group of people to repair their local landscape, and a testament to the power of personal agency, and the radical importance of making a difference on a small scale.
The work of the Survival Kit Collective amplifies the connections between commonly siloed methods and materials, bringing together environmental activism, landscape architecture, sculpture, painting, animation, video, interactive web-based mapping, and data programming. The Survival Kit Collective is multigenerational, multicultural, and rooted in place, specifically the high desert ecology of New Mexico. Catherine Harris and Bill Gilbert formed SKC in 2009, and the current members are: Charlie Bettigole, Bill Gilbert, Samuel Gilbert, Lynn Grimes, Anne Nelson, Ruben Olguin, Aimee Stewart, and Cedra Wood.
Exhibition Name
500 Dams: Art, Ecology, and Radical Care at Anaya Springs
Exhibition Type
Group Exhibitions
Place
Winter Gallery
Dates
Sep 26, 2026 - Jan 10, 2027
Curators
500 Dams is organized by Rachel Seligman, Malloy Curator.
Artists
Charlie Bettigole, Bill Gilbert, Lynn Grimes, Anne Nelson, Ruben Olguin, Samuel Gilbert, Aimee Stewart, Cedra Wood
