Ro Adler
Ro Adler is an interdisciplinary community artist. They pair people-centered processes with inquiry into physical materials, calling on murals, large-scale puppetry, digital design, fibers, and ritual to bring collective vision to life. They believe that beauty is medicine, and that the practice of making art together helps make new worlds.
Ro’s art/work has been seen nationally at the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Kennedy Center; locally at Union Transfer, Icebox Project Space, Space 1026, and Fleisher Art Memorial. Most of all, it lives in the gardens, classrooms, telephone poles, and streets of Philadelphia.
Awarded Grants
2024
Art and Change Grant (ACG)
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Overview
In this multidisciplinary fiber arts and community gardening project, Ro Adler, Jackie Soro, and Nicole Dupree, a team of artists who steward Farm 51, a community and garden space, will work with indigo from seed to textile. They will grow indigo, extract pigment, start a fermentation vat, and host a day-long gathering with neighbors where they will share food, learn about indigo’s complex history, sing to the vat, and dye textiles, documenting and sharing the process widely through a PhillyCAM TV program. The team will also create learning resources for indigo projects in other green spaces and creative communities, in Philly and beyond.
