Friday, October 18 | 11:00 am - 1:30 pm Pacific Time
Maintenance As Meditation | Zachary Royer Scholz

at Commonweal
Presented by Commonweal's New School and West Marin Initiative
Registration required (space is limited)

Join us for a hands-on workshop at Commonweal with artist Zachary Royer Scholz. Zac will lead participants through some of the principles and attentive mindsets that underpin his situationally generated art practice. After this initial grounding, participants will get to try out maintenance as meditation as they weed, rake, and refresh the three “sky spaces” of Zac’s site-specific project Space For Time located just behind Commonweal’s main building. Bring your lunch to eat with the group in the last 1/2 hour of the event!

In the spring of 2022, Zac transformed a crumbling outbuilding on Commonweal’s campus from an abandoned ruin into a series of spaces for focused contemplation. The end result, Space For Time, is an architecturally scaled artwork, containing a trio of “sky spaces” that incorporate material excavated during the remediation of the site and channel the melancholic atmosphere of the Marin Coast. This project, and Zac’s practice in general, is deeply influenced by the interrelated processes of time and the natural world. Zac sees human actions as simply another thread, woven amidst and dependent on these older and deeper flows.  Photo: Erin O'Reilly

Zachary Royer Scholz is an artist who cares deeply about what things were, what things are, and what things will become. Holding this broad existence in mind, Zac reshapes and responds to objects and situations using flexible, open-ended methods.

Zac has shown widely in California with commercial and non-profit art galleries. He has exhibited his work in San Francisco at the Contemporary Jewish Museum and the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, regionally at the The San Diego Art Institute and the San Jose institute of Contemporary Art, and internationally at the K2 Contemporary Art Center in Izmir Turkey.