RU Workshop: Routes & Roots

Saturday August 15, 2026 | 2:00 – 4:00pm

Location: RU House at Colonels Row, Building #404B on Governors Island (map)
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Free Workshop

Limited to 12 participants. If you require any accessibility accommodations, please let us know at info@residencyunlimited.org when you RSVP and we will be happy to assist.

RSVP required.

We move through the world at human speed (rushing, scheduling, optimizing), but beneath our feet, another kind of intelligence is at work: slow, distributed, and deeply interconnected.

This workshop led by Roxane Revon (2023 RU Alum) invites participants to step out of human time and into plant time, exploring our relationship with the living systems that form the foundation of all life on earth. Through guided drawing and cyanotypes exercises, participants will trace and invent root systems.

No drawing experience is necessary; the goal is observation and sensation, not representation.

About

Roxane Revon is a multi-disciplinary Brooklyn based artist intrigued by our relations to ourselves as part of a network of many species. After graduating in philosophy from La Sorbonne University (MA), she moved to New York where she started a career as a theater director and scenographer, and shifted little by little to the creation of multimedia installations and visual arts. Her work explores the question of what is an “optimal state” for human beings nowadays? Many of her pieces change slowly over time, revealing new layers of meaning as they age or develop. Her artwork has been exhibited in institutions such as the CICA Museum, Athens Conservatory, the Rockefeller Center, the French Institute (L’Alliance), The Invisible Dog Art Center; fairs such as Armory satellite, Yi Tai Art Central Hong Kong, Art on Paper NY, Miami Aqua, Venice Biennale satellite; and galleries in New York (Zurcher Gallery and Nathalie Karg Gallery among others), Hong Kong, and Athens. Her recent residencies include Makerspace, Nature of the Cities/NYC Parks, Artist Alliance Inc., Residency Unlimited, LMCC Art Center on Governors Island and Celia and Wally Gilbert Art & Science Fellowship at CSHL. She recently received the FUSED Grant from Villa Albertine and the Creative Engagement grant from LMCC. Revon’s artwork and scenography have been recently reviewed in the New York Times, the New Yorker and Le Monde.

If you require any accessibility accommodations, please let us know at info@residencyunlimited.org when you RSVP and we will be happy to assist.

This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.

In-kind support is provided by Materials for the Arts.

RU is grateful for the partnership with Governors Island Arts.

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