We’re moving to a new larger house in Nolan Park on Governors Island. 

Do you have a creative or research project related to soil? We are looking to support artists, writers, and ecologists engaged in environmental justice, regenerative agriculture, and issues around the climate crisis.

Welcome! This is the place to:

• get more information

• apply to our residency

• pitch your soil project to potential collaborators

• find out how you can volunteer

• get on the mailing list to learn about our public programs and annual symposium

We welcome your new questions, your lingering questions, your emerging or your established art / science practice. From Philly to Chicago, Conakry to Tokyo, our residents help produce the globally relevant and resonant knowledge we need to maintain life in the 21st century and beyond.

Our application process is intentionally uncomplicated. As scientist, historian and writer Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga says well: science is removed from its social context, yet science is a social activity. We operate under culturally narrow rituals of knowledge production and USI’s Art Extension Service is a place for those who challenge these conventional rituals. The work to hold space for the complexity of our soils, and the many lives it supports, is hard; finding space to think deeply with them shouldn’t be.