COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS

RICHMOND FORAGING MAP, 2020-ONGOING

This project started after taking walks during the first summer of Covid and realizing there were many edible plants in the city.  Many of the plants catalogued are fruit trees from old plantation properties. It was made so anyone can access it, add to it, or edit it. This project explores how people can decolonize space through foraging and sharing resources.

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ONLINE SHARED GOOGLE MAP

UP & UP, 2024

Up & Up was a collaborative kite project led by Noël Morical and Christina Sadovnikov involving over 60 artists from across the US and abroad. The initiative was inspired by a desire to create a community-centered art project that engages with contemporary art in a unique way. Each artist created 1-2 kites to be flown collectively in Chicago, creating a rich tapestry of kites in the sky.

PROMONTORY POINT, CHICAGO, IL 

MOLDING AN INNER LANDSCAPE, 2023

Molding an Inner Landscape was a three hour workshop for the exhibition Feralpy held through Flux Factory at Governors Island in New York City. Participants were led through a guided meditation where they developed their own peaceful inner landscapes, drew them out on paper, pulverized them, and formed them into stones - mimicking the process of the rock cycle. The rocks were shown as part of the exhibition. At the end, partipants got to take home their stones to serve as trail markers to return to their inner landscapes once again.

FERALPY EXHIBITION @ FLUX FACTORY, NEW YORK, NY

MILKING THE GRID, 2023

Milking the Grid was a city-wide art exhibtion featuring the work of 10 artists from Richmond, VA. Each work was shown in a public space across the city of Richmond. The exhibtion featured a website and a collective map of works.

RICHMOND, VA

NATURAL DYE COLOR GUIDE, 2023
IN COLLABORATION WITH MAURICIO VARGAS

Natural Dye Color Guide is a reference book for your next natural dye project. This book was created from a class taught by Christina Sadovnikov at the Visual Arts Center in Richmond, VA and archives 16 different natural dyes and their mordant variations. This book was edited by Mauricio Vargas and published by Envelope. To recieve a copy please email

contact@envelope.services.

PUBLISHED & DISTRIBUTED BY ENVELOPE SERVICES

FOOT FAULT, 2022
CO-ORGANIZED WITH NADS NEMANN

Foot Fault was a one-day exhibition in August held at an abandoned tennis court. We featured over 20 artists locally and nationwide to exhibit work. The title of the show came whe we visited this site; a neglected tennis court with trees growing through cracks and kudzu consuming the court. The name for the show, “foot fault”, is a tennis term used when the server steps out of bounds when making the first move. This suited what we wanted for the exhibition; a space for friends to show work that didn’t necessarily fit in a white-walled institutional setting. Many of these works came from bedrooms, were works in progress or made specifically for the site. 

ABANDONED TENNIS COURT IN RICHMOND, VA

OUT OF THE POND, 2022
CO-ORGANIZED WITH STEFAN SCHERCOOK

Out of the Pond was a series of art exhibtions, dinner parties, and noise performances for three consecutive weekends in June.  It featured artists nationwide who exhibited their work throughout Stefan’s farm property. 

A FARM IN MINERAL, VA

DUSK TIL DAWN, 2022
CO-ORGANIZED WITH MARK, BEN MATOON, & MAURICIO VARGAS

Dusk til Dawn was an all-night dance party in October featuring four 2-hr long DJ sets. People were encouraged to dress up and dance until music stopped. Over 50 people attended dressed up as mushrooms, fairy princesses, bedazzled cowboys, and masked creatures.  

A FARM IN MINERAL, VA

CRAFT MAKERSPACE COOKBOOK ZINE, 2022

Craft Makerspace Cookbook is a collection of recipes from 11 different artists, makers, activists, designers, and land stewards. Recipes featured in this zine range from scrap baskets to tchotchke salads. This is an informative, quirky, and wholesome read for anyone who enjoys concocting all things inedible. To get a free copy of the online pdf please email christinasadovnikov@gmail.com.  

PUBLICATION DISTRIBUTED BY CHRISTINA SADOVNIKOV

YOU ARE HERE, 2021
CO-ORGANIZED WITH ANYA SHCHERBAKOVA

You Are Here was a series of four workshops held for a day in Chimborazo Park. The workshops were centered around ways of navigating space by looking through the lenses of technology, ecology, and bodily awareness. At the end of the workshop, we watched the sunset together and drank mushroom hot cocoa.  

CHIMBORAZO PARK, RICHMOND, VA