Summer Solstice 2026
COORDINATES OF BELONGING
June 20 — July 19, 2026
an off-site group exhibition for the summer solstice
COMPANION presents Coordinates of Belonging, an exhibition for the 2026 summer solstice featuring a group of artists and land-based practitioners who share bodies of knowledge celebrating slow, curious relationships with land, with spacetime, and with each other.
Aleyah Austin, Stephanie Barlow, Kim Beck, Stuart Hyatt, Meris Drew, Ellery Diaz, Lalana Fedorschak, Dana Lynn Harper, Maura Jasper, James R. McKenna, Chris Merritt, Rebekah Nolan, Shamira, Kevin Allison, Danicia Monét Malone, Max Trumpower, and Seneca Weintraut.
Presented off-site in verdant gardens and intimate cottage spaces, the exhibition features sculpture, painting, ceramic, textile, video, and sound works. This third annual exhibition for the summer solstice calls attention to acts of personal and collective reorientation and recovery, with artworks and public programs that position yearning and abstract storytelling as critical compasses for belonging. The residential setting is stewarded by neighbors who have transformed the cottage, grounds, and remaining farmstead into an artists and writers residency.
OPEN HOURS
Friday, Saturday, and Sunday | 12 — 5pm
closed July 3 — 5, 2026
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White River Farm is a beloved multi-generational family
property and former farmstead along the White River
in Indianapolis. Before it became a neighborhood, the
land was a late-19th-century country estate supported
by a 400-acre working farm. Along with a farm, the landscape
includes a meadow, ravines, a pond, and orchards.
The original landscape was designed by renowned Danish-
American landscape architect Jens Jensen in the 1920s.
Landscape architects Merritt Chase revisited these plans in
the 2020s, with a focus on preserving the property’s historic
character and honoring the legacy of the landscape while
enhancing the environmental stewardship of the property.
Today, the site is stewarded by neighbors who have worked with Merritt
Chase to preserve and reinvigorate the landscape and with
El Dorado Architects to transform the cottage, grounds,
and remaining farmstead into an artists and writers
residency. The goals of this work include enhanced
adaptation for climate change, increased ecological
health, and sensitive integration of new social and cultural
creative programming.
The property is home to Thick Time Residency, which
offers by invitation space and time to artists, curators,
writers, architects, and creatives of many kinds.
Meris Drew, aaron's garden overgrown in a dream, 2024. Courtesy of Stellarhighway.
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OPENING RECEPTION
Saturday, June 20th | 6 — 10pm
SUMMER SOLSTICE FLOW | Meditation, Movement, and Greeting the Sun with Ellery Diaz
Sunday, June 21st | 4 — 7am
Sunday marks the first astronomical day of summer in the Northern Hemisphere with the solstice occurring at 4:24 am ET.
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SOIL TO PIGMENT | A Land-Based Mini Residency on Indiana Soil, Color, and Material Practice
Sunday, June 21st | 9am — 1pm
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GUIDED GARDEN WALK
Sunday, June 21st | 1:30 — 3pm
included with open hours admission
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THE AMERICAN CHESTNUT | Past, Present, and Future with James R. McKenna
Sunday, June 27th | 1:30 — 3pm
included with open hours admission
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GUIDED GARDEN WALK
Sunday, June 28th | 1:30 — 3pm
included with open hours admission
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WriteShop | Artist Statements with Braydee Euliss and Lauren Day
Thursday, July 9th | 6 — 8pm
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COMMUNITY WriteShop | Lauren Day
Friday, July 10th | 8 — 9:30am
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CONJURING THE SUN | Lumen Printing with Aleyah Austin
Saturday, July 11th | 1 — 4pm
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GUIDED GARDEN WALK
Saturday, July 11th | 1:30 — 3pm
included with open hours admission
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SCULPTURE FROM MY BACK YARD | Figurative Vessel-Building and At-Home Glaze with Max Trumpower
Saturday, July 18th | 2 — 4pm
CLOSING RECEPTION
Sunday, July 19th | 12 — 5pm
Closing Reception program includes:
Curatorial Tour with COMPANION gallerist Braydee Euliss
Guided Garden Walk with landscape architect Danica Liongson
Flag Lowering Ceremony for Kim Beck’s Tree Time Share
The first publication by COMPANION supports the third summer solstice exhibition Coordinates of Belonging as a physical archive of the featured 17 artists and land-based practitioners and their contributions to the gallery’s month-long residency at White River Farm. Sculpture, ceramic, textile, painting, video, and sound works are presented in verdant gardens and intimate residential spaces once home to a functional farmstead, redesigned by Danish-American landscape architect Jens Jensen in the 1920s, and currently under new stewardship as an artist and writers residency.
Designed by Commercial Artisan, the catalog collects the pieces of the exhibition into a simple, but elegant package bound together by a prong fastener.
Dimensions: 11 x 8.5 in
60 pages
Edition of 100
June 2026
$50.00 (plus postage)
Documentation by Anna Powell Denton and Hadley Fruits