[Sosfbay-discuss] Issues in Art

[Tian Harter]

Wes Rolley wrote:

> 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.

Anybody know how to get to Santa Rosa by transit?

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