Bradley Pitts

Bradley Pitts is a father, husband, artist, and teacher born and raised in Manhattan while spending summers in the woods of southern Appalachia. He is focussed on repairing human-wild relationships through an expansive, intersectional approach to land stewardship which incorporates Indigenous justice, renewable energy, affordable housing, regenerative agriculture, and habitat restoration. In 2022 Pitts founded PLaCE (Peoples, Land, agriCultures, Ecologies), a land-centered art platform in the Mohican homelands (the Craryville Flats basin, Copake, NY). It cultivates cultures of reciprocity-with-place by inviting artists to work collectively in nature. Through rewilding 90+ acres of monocropped corn fields with native, perennial, food-producing plants, PLaCE seeks to stimulate new human-inclusive ecologies that heal soil, air, habitat, and human-wild kinship. These ecologies, in order to be transformative and sustainable, must grow intertwined with new land-centered cultures. For this reason artists are central to PLaCE.