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We Care A Lot: Stewardship of Land in the Neighborhood
September 20-25
Artist Residency with Marjetica Portc and Hamburg Hochschule für bildende Künste (HFBK) students
Tues, Sept. 22 and Wed, Sept. 23 at 12 PM Noon
Lunch time talks at the Jean Luc Mylane Pavilion in the Lurie Garden in Millennium Park (Corner of Columbus and Monroe)
Marjetica Potrč and her students from the University of Fine Arts in Hamburg (HFBK) will lead two lunchtime discussions about food, water, and soil. The Art Institute’s Jean-Luc Mylane public pavilion in the Lurie Gardens of Millennium Park serves as a lunchtime place for reflection and exchange of ideas around climate change. The intent is to encourage reflection on our connection to resources and what we can do to better sustain them.
Bring your lunch and join us! Water, soil, and food discussions ask: How are these resources used and protected? How thinkers/artists are reinventing their usage? How they can best be used to form/sustain communities?
During their artist residency they will visit a number of sites that work with food, soil, and community including The Plant, City Farm, Sweet Water Foundation, National Resource Defense Council, Edgewater Environmental Sustainability Project, Experimental Station, Theaster Gates' Dorchester Project, Xavier Wrona's Mehode House, and Care for Real. Artist studio visits and meetings include Ken Dun, Brian Holmes, Jenny Kendler, Nance Khelm, Faheem Majeed, Claire Pentecost, Frances Whitehead, Amanda Williams, and more.