How to Move a Tree
2026
Artist Book Book Design by Draw Down Books
Support from:
Ellis Beauregard Project Grant
Space Gallery Kindling Fund
2026
Artist Book Book Design by Draw Down Books
Support from:
Ellis Beauregard Project Grant
Space Gallery Kindling Fund
Picnic Collective is a process-oriented art endeavor started by Carolina González Valencia and Asha Tamirisa. The name Picnic Collective emphasizes the idea of being together, utilizing whatever infrastructure may exist for collectivity. A picnic is a place where we find nourishment wherever we find each other. In a picnic, the foods brought together don’t always make sense. A picnic is about everyone gathering, and bringing whatever it is they wish to share. The result is a collage, and that’s what makes it beautiful. Like a picnic, we explore artistic methods that allow for collectivity and collaboration while encouraging difference.
“How to Move a Tree,” the first project from Picnic Collective, is an artist book publication where six Maine-based artists “from away” followed a text score fashioned as a poetic “how-to” guide, using a tree as a metaphor to engage ideas of uprooting, transplanting, and finding agency and community. The invited artists manifested the score in their chosen mediums. The book contains the results of these projects, and is also an invitation for others to follow the score.
“How to Move a Tree,” the first project from Picnic Collective, is an artist book publication where six Maine-based artists “from away” followed a text score fashioned as a poetic “how-to” guide, using a tree as a metaphor to engage ideas of uprooting, transplanting, and finding agency and community. The invited artists manifested the score in their chosen mediums. The book contains the results of these projects, and is also an invitation for others to follow the score.
