[Sosfbay-discuss] Issues in Art

[Wes Rolley]

For those who have in interest in land use, farming, agriculture, etc., 
there might be an interest in the current exhibit at the Sonoma County 
Museum <http://www.sonomacountymuseum.org/docs/featuredexhibitions.html> 
in Santa Rosa.  Entitled Hybrid Fields, this exhibit is described as "a 
group exhibition of contemporary artists creating socially engaged art 
that explores philosophies for growing food, distributing food, and 
consuming food. Their art inhabits a hybrid space where art and life, 
art and agriculture, converge. Sonoma County is a unique agricultural 
community supporting small farmers who have raised livestock and a 
multitude of crops through the years, including apples, hops, prunes, 
and increasingly, grapes. As new technologies expand our capacity for 
producing more food, faster, through mechanization, hybridization, and 
genetic engineering, questions are being raised as to the environmental 
and social impact of such practices. The artists in Hybrid Fields 
incorporate the use of humor, metaphor, research, fictive narrative, and 
intervention to expand the context for contemplating how far food 
travels from the field to the supermarket, the waste of unharvested 
crops, the conversion of farmland for housing, and the lack of 
biodiversity that commercial farming brings."

It runs through 31 December.

-- 
Wes Rolley		 
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Morgan Hill, CA 95037
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"Happiness is to be fully engaged in the activity that you believe in and, if you are very good at it, well that's a bonus." -- Henry Moore

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