Welcome! This is the place to:

• get more information

• pitch your soil project to potential collaborators,

• propose a panel, project or artwork for our soil symposium,

• find out how you can volunteer or

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

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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 claim space on the long arc of producing 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 and often — 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 disrupt these conventional rituals. The work to hold, understand, and communicate the complexity and beauty of our soils, and of all those who live in and on earth’s soils, is hard; finding the space to listen, watch and think deeply about them shouldn’t be.

Onward!

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We are working on our place-based residencies for 2026; please stay tuned