Of Water and Ice: Echoes from the Edge of Antarctica
June 20–July 6, 2025
*** BENEFIT ART SALE EXTENDED THROUGH JULY 31 ***
Studio Lab Eleven
11 Railroad Street, 2nd Floor
Great Barrington, MA
A benefit art exhibition featuring new works by Gabrielle Senza, alongside a series of community gatherings in support of the Alliance for a Viable Future’s Climate Leadership Cohort Journey Scholarship Fund.
Exhibition Hours:
Most days by appointment.
Call or text 413.854.5900
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Find additional details on the pieces in the collection below.
Details on the Artwork in the Exhibition
About the Exhibition
This summer, multidisciplinary artist Gabrielle Senza opens her downtown Railroad Street studio for a rare public exhibition: Of Water and Ice: Echoes from the Edge of Antarctica.
Created during her 2024 Knob Hill Artist Residency and inspired by her 2022 expedition to the southernmost continent with partner and collaborator Dan Ruderman, this new body of work includes drawings, paintings, sculptural studies, sketches, and works in progress. Through an intimate, elemental lens, the collection explores themes of memory, impermanence, ecological fragility, and the haunting beauty of an uninhabited continent.
While having exhibited internationally for more than 30 years, this is Gabrielle’s first major showing of new work in the Berkshires in over a decade.
Preview select works in the exhibition, by visiting the Antarctica Collection on Artwork Archive.
Exhibition Hours
Open most days by appointment.
To check on available hours or to schedule a visit, please call or text 413.854.5900.
Check the evolving event schedule below for special programming and updates.
Event Schedule
Join us for the “Festival Of Ice and Water”, a three weekend series of events to coincide with the open studio hours for Gabrielle Senza’s “Of Water and Ice” exhibition in Great Barrington, MA.
Check back frequently as the schedule may shift as new events are added.
Please note, as space is limited, some events require registration.
We look forward to seeing you soon!
Friday, June 20, 2025
1:00–4:00 PM
Preview Reception
Join us for an intimate preview of Of Water and Ice: Echoes from the Edge of Antarctica.
2:00-3:00 PM
Opening Dedication & Solstice Meditation
We’ll open the exhibition with a dedication from artist Gabrielle Senza, honoring the waters, lands, and shared intentions of this gathering. The dedication will be followed by a Solstice Meditation led by Dan Ruderman of the Knob Hill Artist Residency, accompanied by live ambient Earth music composed from natural materials by Terra Luna.
RSVP recommended, but not required.
Saturday, June 21, 2025
12:00–4:00 PM
Open Studio Hours
2:00-3:00 PM
Artist Talk with Gabrielle Senza
Join Gabrielle for an intimate conversation about the making of Of Water and Ice: Echoes from the Edge of Antarctica. She’ll share behind-the-scenes stories from her 2022 Antarctic expedition, insights into her creative process, and reflections on how art can serve as a vessel for climate consciousness, memory, and collective healing.
Bring your questions, your curiosity, and your presence.
RSVP recommended, but not required.
Sunday, June 22, 2025
1:00–6:00 PM
Open Studio Hours
Solstice Celebration: Meaningful Conversations, Sound Bath, Cacao Ceremony & More
A full afternoon of nourishment for mind, body, and spirit—gathering climate leaders, artists, and changemakers in a circle of intention and transformation.
2:00–2:30 PM
Building a Regenerative Partnership Network in the Berkshires
Join Lev Natan, founder of Alliance for a Viable Future, for a short talk on how we are weaving together a bioregional network of leaders, healers, artists, farmers, and changemakers committed to regenerating the culture and ecology of the Berkshires. Learn how you can participate in this growing web of regenerative relationships, emergent strategies, mutual support, and community resilience.
2:30–3:30 PM
Visionary Sound Bath Journey: Dreaming a Culture of Regeneration & Aliveness
Drop into a spacious, heart-centered journey of sound, guided by sacred tones, healing frequencies, and visionary intention. Together, we’ll listen deeply for what is longing to emerge in our region—a culture rooted in vitality, reciprocity, and aliveness. This immersive experience invites you to rest, receive, and dream into a thriving future.
Bring a yoga mat, blanket, or anything else that helps you feel comfortable lying down.
Space is limited; RSVP encouraged.
4:00–5:30 PM
Amazonian Breathwork with Cacao Ceremony
Ceremonial Cacao has been shown to activate what is often referred to as the heart center, allowing for deeper healing to take place. The addition of cacao to the breathwork ceremony allows for an increased flow of oxygen throughout the body. Through conscious breathing, movement and sound led by dedicated practitioner, Justin Torrico, participants will be guided into the present moment, activating an awareness of true nature, the true causes of happiness and expanded physiological capacity.
Note: Please arrive on time and avoid caffeine beforehand.
Bring a yoga mat, blanket, or anything else that helps you feel comfortable lying down.
Space is limited; RSVP encouraged.
Friday, June 27, 2025
By Appointment
Saturday, June 28, 2025
By Appointment
Sunday, June 29, 2025
12:00–6:00 PM
Open Studio Hours
Drop in to experience the exhibition at your own pace.
4:00–5:30 PM
Transforming Power, Finding Flow – the principles and potential of Sociocracy
Power – it’s everywhere – in our families, at work, in friendships, and in DC.
Can we take the leap from “power over” versus “power with”? Sociocracy is a form of self-governance that provides a structure for building trust and connection while doing the good work together. It enables us to find a creative flow as individuals, as a family, group or team.
If you love working with people but struggle with meetings, if you think your team or group could be more effective and fun, if you’d like to find a way to make decisions with your children or even if you are a one person show and want to get yourself unstuck – in this hour long interactive exploration we’ll cover the ways in which Sociocracy can support ongoing learning and the experience of shared humanity all while getting things done.
Uli Nagel is a certified Trainer in Sociocracy and is implementing it in her work as director of the non-profit Cooler Communities, a climate education program.
RSVP recommended, but not required.
COMING UP: Final Weekend of Events!
Final Weekend of Events!
Friday, July 4, 2025
12:00–4:00 PM
Studio Open by Appointment
Given it’s a holiday, we recommend you text Gabrielle at 413.854.5900
to make an appointment or confirm open studio hours.
Saturday, July 5, 2025
1:00–6:00 PM
Open Studio Hours
Drop in to experience the exhibition at your own pace.
2:00–3:30 PM*
Film Screening: Unfinished Song — How Music Connects Us, Even When Nothing Else Can
Join us for a special screening of Unfinished Song, an award-winning 30-minute documentary that celebrates the life, voice, and radiant spirit of Berkshire jazz legend Wanda Houston. Through stirring performances, personal reflections, and deeply human storytelling, Wanda shows us how music has the power to transcend division, awaken memory, and bring us back to one another.
Directed by Mark Farrell, the film has received international acclaim, including Best Short Documentary at the San Francisco Arthouse Film Festival. In a time of growing polarization, Unfinished Song is a powerful reminder that music remains one of our most enduring and universal bridges.
✨ The screening will be followed by an intimate talk-back with Wanda Houston, director Mark Farrell, and executive producer Michael Shocket, who will share insights into the making of the film and the deeper story behind Wanda’s ongoing journey. Find out more about their feature length film project here.
Seating is limited to 15 seats + floor space.
Purchase tickets here.
6:00–7:30 PM*
Film Screening: Emergence of Heart
Emergence of Heart is a 20-minute coming-of-age work-in-progress documentary that asks a simple, disarming question: How do we stay human while the planet changes around us? Director Liv Scott (they/them) invites viewers into their own reckoning with the climate crisis as a white, non-binary person in the United States. The film becomes a mirror—guiding audiences to reflect on their feelings, share personal stories, and braid those stories into a wider, nation-spanning tapestry of ecological and social healing.
After the screening we’ll hold a brief community reflection circle, offering space to be witnessed and to imagine what “emergence of heart” looks like here in the Berkshires.
About the Filmmaker
Liv Scott shapeshifts across film, performance, and facilitation to spark connections among people who may not otherwise meet. Since realizing at age five that humans were threatening the rainforest “home” of their stuffed sloth, Liv has pursued projects that address the root cause common to climate chaos and systemic oppression: disconnection.
Suggested donation: $15. All are welcome.
Space is very limited; RSVP recommended.
* No parking on Railroad Street after 5:00, as that’s when they clear out the street for Berkshire Busk.
Sunday, July 6, 2025
1:00–6:00 PM
Open Studio Hours
Drop in to experience the exhibition before the exhibition closes.
11:00-12:15 PM
Forest Bathing with Terra Luna
Meeting at Lake Mansfield, Great Barrington
Step quietly into the living poetry of the forest. Join us for a meditative walk and embodied performance guided by artist Gabrielle Senza in the persona of Terra Luna—a mythical being draped in white, attuned to the Earth, Moon, and the unseen.
This journey begins at Lake Mansfield and leads participants into the forest—not as spectators, but as kin. Through stillness, intuitive movement, and deep listening, we’ll shift our attention from doing to being, from noise to noticing. Terra Luna does not speak; she listens on behalf of what has been silenced. She invites us to do the same.
Part performance, part ritual, part remembering—this experience opens a threshold for reconnection with the more-than-human world, our inner landscape, and the quiet wisdom beneath it all.
What to bring:
Wear comfortable walking shoes, bring water, and dress for the weather. A small journal is optional for those who wish to reflect or write afterward.
Suggested donation: $15. All are welcome.
Space is limited. Registration required.
6:00–8:00 PM
Film Screening: The Eternal Song
The Eternal Song is a poetic and powerful feature-length documentary that journeys through ancestral lands and Indigenous lifeways, bearing witness to the wounds of colonization and the healing wisdom carried across generations. This visually stunning film invites us to remember our place in the web of life and to reawaken the sacred connection to Earth, each other, and the unseen.
Through medicine stories, ancestral teachings, and ceremony, The Eternal Song offers a call to return—not to the past, but to belonging.
Directed by Zaya and Maurizio Benazzo, co-founders of Science and Nonduality (SAND), this cinematic experience closes out the Of Water and Ice exhibition with reverence, resonance, and renewal. Watch the trailer here.
Suggested donation: $15. All are welcome.
The screening will be followed by a community circle for shared reflection.
Space is very limited; RSVP recommended.
Events In the Works
Benefit Silent Auction — Coming Autumnal Equinox 2025
We’ve just welcomed the light of summer at the solstice—now we invite you to look forward to the next turning of the wheel. As day and night meet in perfect balance this September, Studio Lab Eleven will host an Equinox Silent Auction: a celebration of community, connection, and collective care.
Expect a curated mix of artworks, handcrafted pieces, and inspired experiences—each one offered in the spirit of reciprocity. Every winning bid will support scholarships for the Alliance for a Viable Future’s Climate Leadership Cohort, nurturing local visionaries who are weaving regenerative futures for the Berkshires and beyond.
Join our mailing list and stay tuned: full details and preview will be announced as the equinox draws near.
In/Visibility Lab: Performance Lecture + Workshop — Date & Time TBA
An interactive, heart-opening experience exploring the power and politics of visibility. Rooted in Gabrielle Senza’s long-running social art project, the In/Visibility Lab invites participants to reflect on when we’ve felt invisible, when we’ve wished to be invisible, and how we truly long to be seen, heard, and celebrated.
Date and registration link coming soon.
Join our mailing list to stay tuned.
What Is This About?
This project is a creative act of reciprocity.
It honors the stark beauty of Antarctica while helping fund the work of future climate leaders through the Alliance for a Viable Future. AVF’s Climate Leadership Cohort Journey supports changemakers who are building bioregional resilience and regenerative futures.
By joining us, you’re supporting people doing the deep, local, long-haul work of planetary care for future generations to come.
Plan Your Visit
Studio Location: Studio Lab Eleven, 11 Railroad Street, 2nd Floor, Great Barrington, MA
Exhibition Dates: June 20 – July 6, 2025
Hours: Most days 12–4PM + by appointment
To RSVP or schedule a visit: Call or text 413.854.5900
Sponsors + Supporters
This event is made possible with the support and generosity of our community:
Alliance for a Viable Future – Beneficiary + Program Partner
Knob Hill Artist Residency – Creative Residency Support
Gabrielle Senza – Studio Host + Project Producer
Interested in supporting the project?
Press & Media
Visit our Digital Press Kit for the press release, artist bio, high-res images, and event listing copy.
For press inquiries, contact: hello@gabriellesenza.com
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Thank you for being part of this experience!