Space roads3/11/2023 ![]() We pay respects to the Lenape people both past and present. Lenni Lenapes in Pennsylvania are not officially recognized as tribes by the United States, though an estimated 5000 Lenape Nation descendants live in the Delaware River area. Most Delaware Indian tribe descendants are now located in Oklahoma, Wisconsin, and Ontario. We acknowledge that we are on the ancestral lands of the Lenape, original people of the mid-Atlantic area, forced west by British and US governments. We are currently seeking volunteers for both locations: email us to enquire. Please call 61 or email to set up visits outside our regularly scheduled hours. Our Little Free Library outdoor boxes at both sites are open 24/7 and are regularly restocked. Note: The library will be closed on Dec 24th and Dec 31st. Please check our website or social media before visiting as our hours are subject to change.Ĭurrently: Fridays and Saturdays from 11am-3pm In an area that lies between rural farmland, Amish country, horse country, land preservation efforts, towns impoverished by big-box proliferation, and encroaching suburbanization growing out from the cities of Philadelphia, Wilmington and Lancaster, Street Road is a laboratory for the consideration of humans’ multiplicitous relationships with land - past, current and future. The 5-acre site comprises outdoor works, many ongoing, an exhibition space in a renovated 1930s cottage, and occasional projects in two other on-site buildings - an abandoned former mushroom house and an industrial pole barn. Located at the crossroads of Street Road and Gap Newport Pike (Routes 926 and 41), our name adopts the richly textured toponym by which we are located: etymologically 'Street Road' derives from the Roman ‘via strata’, or ‘paved road’, thus encoding histories of human-land intertwinings, particularly human impulses to map, posess, and constrain the earth. Challenges to received wisdom about private property ownership, especially how this relates to social relationships, are the focus. About us: Developed as an evolution of a family real estate business, Street Road Artists' Space hosts projects that relate directly to the problematic, capital-driven activity which produced its possibility.
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