A community-driven art project using collective practices to explore harm reduction and healing in Philadelphia.
Inspired by history.
Grounded in research.
Committed to understanding.
Inspired by history. Grounded in research. Committed to understanding.
Rosine Association Store ledger book used as a clipping scrapbook, 1848 - 1856, Mira Sharpless Townsend Papers, RG5/320, Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College. Photograph by Zissel Aronow.
Rosine 2.0 built on the original Rosine Association, an organization from the 1800’s that provided aid and refuge for women facing systemic harm and barriers to care. Emerging from over a year of collective learning, Rosine 2.0 culminated in a series of public art activations in March 2023 that explored harm reduction, mutual aid and collective healing in solidarity with Philadelphia’s drug users, sex workers, and unhoused communities.
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The Projects
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Circle Keepers
Healing people, places and plants of Philadelphia
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Mad Ecologies
Listening for the core of radical harm reduction
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What Heals You?
A portrait & interview series for our Philly neighbors
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Past Visions / Future Archives
A community archiving & future visioning microgrant
Photograph by Zissel Aronow.
Rosine 2.0 engaged an interdisciplinary collective made up of the project management team, artists, harm reductionists, community archivists, partner organizations, and other community members involved in today's street economies (e.g., sex work and drug use). This collective gathered at key moments throughout the project to develop work in Philadelphia.