LEARNING AS NEIGHBORS
We are also a main street COMMUNITY hub and garden with a 42 acre multi-use SPACE.
Our PROJECTS and PRACTICE are rooted in our relationship with the people and places where we live and work.
WHAT MAKES A VILLAGE
What Makes A Village is a YOUTH-FOCUSED curriculum that opens communication among neighbors and government through a creative project.
The program employs youth to develop professional skills while exploring creativity as an engine for SOCIAL CHANGE.
Youth examine government
STRUCTURES & POLICIES through direct observation of local meetings, while conducting interviews with local residents.
By examining “bigger-than-me” SYSTEMS and practicing communication, youth employees get to observe the dynamics behind politics.
We discuss polarizing issues, providing youth employees with STRATEGIES for navigating disagreement to make decisions driven by community engagement, research and compassion.
What Makes A Village was developed in PARTNERSHIP with the Sullivan County Center for Workforce Development from 2016-2020.
MONTICELLO
CIVIC MURAL
Monticello Civic Mural was developed by Angie Snowden and Tyler Olivo at the Ethelbert B. Crawford PUBLIC LIBRARY. Thanks to Sullivan County Plans and Progress Small Grant Pogram and Library Director, Mary Paige Langclouse.
ENGN believes art has the power to mobilize communities and that starts with dialogue. When the library board asked Tyler, “Why is it important to THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX?” He said, “Because we are in one”.
HOW TO GIVE
LOVE AS A
FOSTER CHILD
INFLUENCER
How To Give Love As A Foster Child Influencer is a SHORT FILM developed and produced by Reannon Matulewich in partnership with the Sullivan County Department of Public Health.
Drawing from her own personal experience, Reannon created the film to help future foster parents to understand the responsibilities that come with LOVING and supporting foster children.
NEAR BROADWAY
Near Broadway is a SHORT FILM developed by Breanah Bracy, Chance Epstein, Jada Lawson, Jadin Williams, Kayla Colon, Madison Fields, Nyila Cole, and Reannon Matulewich, led by Maliyamungu Muhande and Jake Bellew, during the 2020 pandemic in
Monticello, NY.
Through mindful instruction youth learned to handle professional camera equipment and software, collaboratively weaving a community portrait of growth, featuring the VOICES and stories of their neighbors, their parents and themselves. The film was publicly presented at the
Sullivan County Government Center.
ART STUDIO KUWAIT
Art Studio Kuwait and ENGN partnered to create an experimental 3 day, 72 hour communal creativity workshop examining our STORIES.
Various forms of art making were investigated to acknowledge, discover, and maybe better UNDERSTAND what it meant to be an artist in Kuwait.
We partnered with 13 local, intergenerational craftsmen, ARTISTS and designers.
Including weaving, mapping, photography, fashion, batik, performance, painting, drawing, sculpting, graphic DESIGN, product design, and illustration.
This was an explosion of CREATIVITY culminating in a public invite to the studio upon completion of the 72 hours.
3D PRINTING
3D printing WORKSHOPS were conducted in community centers and public libraries across Sullivan County from 2013-2014.
Workshops and labs generated public discourse to look at our relationship to MATERIAL & WASTE, while also supporting local entrepreneurship and acknowledging generations of rural craft.
