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The School of Each Other


2026 - ongoing

The School of Each Other is a collaboration between myself and Rose Lewis. Built on the belief that everyone is a teacher, we use the pomp & ceremony of institutions (think robes, parades, stoles, pledges) to honor knowledge no institution would credential. Skills passed between neighbors, across kitchen tables- through necessity, generosity, and care.

EVENTS


SESSION 1: JOSEPHINE LACOSTA


Gathering & Conversation
Portland, Oregon
Rose’s House









The EndingFor the first event of The School of Each Other, Rose and I invited Josephine LaCosta to Rose's house in Portland. Jo is a chef, gardener, writer, and someone who has dedicated her life to setting the table. We dressed in doctoral robes. We placed a stole on her shoulders. We asked her everything.

The room contributed. The conversation moved between food and farming, between learning and being in service of someone else's learning. It ended somewhere none of us planned: Jo leading everyone in a three-part round of Scarborough Fair, voices overlapping in a living room. Before people left, we gathered the notes, what we'd learned that evening, collectively, from one person who never needed a classroom to know what she knows.

This was the second event of The School of Each Other and the first time we understood what it could be.

In collaboration with Rose Lewis
Guest teacher: Josephine LaCosta



RADIO 1: COLLECTIVE SKILLS


Radio Broadcast
The Grange, Big Sur, California 
Alongside the Liars' Village Exhibition









For this first activation, Rose and I collected audio recordings from people in our lives about skills they learned outside a classroom. Things passed down, figured out, stumbled into. The kind of knowledge that doesn't have a certificate but absolutely has significance.

I broadcasted the recordings from the kitchen of the Grange during Liars' Village, a radio station running alongside the exhibition. 

This was the first time the School of Each Other took a public form. It was modest. We weren't trying to build an institution. We were trying to name something that was already happening everywhere and put it on the air.

In collaboration with Rose Lewis

Audio recordings from:  
Ayla Gizlice, Belle Baker, Betty Belle Peery Nicks, Carolina Cuevas, Cooper, Danielle Yorko, Dominic Toliver, Gek Lim + Adele, Gwen Hoeffgen, Haruka Ostley, Josephine La Costa, Kevin, Lauren Wood, Lou Blumberg, Nube Hawk Cruz, Peery Sloan, Ruhee Maknojia, Ryne Leuzinger, Tania Shcheglova

Photos by Sarah Blesener