In The Dew of Little Things

EIN# 83-2543378

In the Dew of Little Things is a 501(c)(3) designed to provide, promote or enhance services for the underserved through art and stewardship. By designing creative programming to service the underserved, we are interested in addressing lives that are often overlooked—economically and ecologically.

American essayist, Elaine Scarry, lectures on the idea of beauty to prepare us for being good people.  She argues that the concept of beauty is a call to justice because fairness is the etymological link between the two.  So, while justice is conventionally informed by judgment and punishment, Scarry suggests it should be informed by beauty. She says— “When you see something beautiful, begin to repair the injuries of the world.”

Our programming is very flexible to what is immediately relevant, always with respect to the future. So while we might provide emergency response services, we also facilitate a more (w)holistic approach to arts programming. Consumer culture has turned much of the arts into product, but what we at ITDOLT are trying to emphasis is that the arts are better suited for cultural expression, societal critique, and resistance. In fact, we reject consumer culture as a culture at all, but see it as a system of indoctrination for consumption, extraction, and death. That is why our arts programming emphasizes natural materials, bio-installations, land stewardship, community support and even emergency response services, as extreme weather further damages our failing man-made infrastructure. The misstep in arts can no longer be attributed to a lack of foresight, but to a fatal commitment to material consumption, with little to no regard for both human and non-human life, and with near total abandon to the collective responsibility, benefit and beauty of ecological balance.

Art was once said to imitate life. Destroying life to make art-product, is but a cult of death.