Angelica Dzeli Gosiewska Palmer is an Interdisciplinary Social Practice Eco-Artist and Folk Ritualist that explores the connections within ourselves, with each other, and with nature. Through music, dance, and storytelling, she creates visceral and emotional work rooted in the earth. For decades Angelica has led rituals, taught classes and hosted events interweaving community, activism, and the arts throughout the United States and Canada.

She is the founder of The Telegraph School, a home for the Healing & Performing Arts in Cherry Valley, NY and is the Board Treasurer for the Cherry Valley Community Facilities Corporation (“The Old School”).

Angelica is the creator of the Cherry Valley Water Project, a multi-year journey to build a sacred relationship between her village, Cherry Valley, NY and their water, the Cherry Valley Creek, through the performance arts and ritual.  She is a 2023 recipient of the Rural and Traditional Artist Fellowship and a 2026 recipient of the  NYSCA Support for Artists Grant for Folk Arts, through New York Folklore.  She is currently engaged in the second phase of the Cherry Valley Water Project, researching her ancestral Springtime water ritual practices in Poland.

Angelica has a Masters in Creative Inquiry and Social Activism from the Experimental Performance Institute at New College of California in San Francisco and a Bachelors in Sustainable International Development and Statistics from Cornell University.  

Angelica has a very strong love for her family.  She comes from many generations of musicians on both sides of her family. She is the daughter of improvisational avant garde jazz pianist Paul Bley and abstract video artist Carol Goss, sister of musician Vanessa Bley and partner of sculptor Marc-Anthony Polizzi.  She is the mother of two kind creative humans she is proud to know.  Her father, sister, niece and nephew have all passed into the spirit realm and their physical loss and continued presence in her life profoundly influence her art.

She is also deeply influenced by the slow-moving deeply rooted nature of her community in Cherry Valley, NY, on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka land, by the beauty and vitality of its land and water, and by the ancient Slavic and Animist practices of her ancestors.