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Thursday, September 15, 2011
Monday, September 5, 2011
Arts and Agriculture Education
Nancy Colgan is the Warwick Vally High School Ag and Tech teacher and 4-H advisor I've worked in her classroom a few years ago to build a few Adirondack Chairs with her Tech clas. Yesterday, she stopped me at the Farmers Market to say she's very interested in developing an arts-related ag course which would allow her to work with high school freshmen who have to fulfill an arts elective. Because of requirements, it's unlikely that high school students would get exposure to the Ag program till junior or senior year. This idea addresses that and offers students the possibility of earlier exposure to the pleasures of Ag. Abnd it integrates Ag more into the general curriculum.
She's been talking to the Chair of the Art Department and is starting to gather ideas for possibvle arts/ag courses.
We could use any thoughts, leads, references...
She's been talking to the Chair of the Art Department and is starting to gather ideas for possibvle arts/ag courses.
We could use any thoughts, leads, references...
Friday, September 2, 2011
Arts and Ag Ideas 9.2.11
The Questions:
How can arts and artists contribute to a more vigorous agricultural economy?
How can the farms and farmers help develop new venues for arts and artists?
Here come the responses:
from Sandy Leonard, Supervisor, Town of Monroe
Add Arts to Farmers MarketsEvery place in OC that has a Farmers Market could invite artists of that area to come sell their wares just like the farmers do. Look at that Art and Agriculture or Agriculture and Art! Additionally, if any of the farmers that have farm stores on their farms wanted to partner with any local artists, they might give them their venue to exhibit and sell through on site. Jones Farm has quite the set up. I love this idea and think it’s a natural partnership opportunity-now you just have to convince the farmers and the artists. But tourists should love this.
See the reference to ta similar market in Columbia, MO
Looks like great minds think alike: I just saw this on the Arts Council FB page:
We are looking for artisanal craft vendors for our indoor Farmer's Market for Nov. and Dec. Our goal is to find some local artisans who make products suitable as gift items to participate in our pre-holiday markets.
Wendy Vandercliff
Pine Island Farmers Market Manager
c/o W Rogowski Farm
327-329 Glenwood Road
Pine Island, NY 10969
Phone - 845-258-8152
Contemporary Artist Exhibits at Farm-Oriented MuseumsI would suggest an art exhibit at the Orange County Farmers Museum focusing on Farm Scenes of Orange County. My mom was active with them when they first got started. It would tie the two topics or art and farming together nicely. I would be glad to donate some items for an exhibit of that nature as I have some very nice paintings and also some marvelous photographs of barns and cows from the county. Bob Score, who was very involved at the beginning of the museum, is a talented person who has done some beautiful pen and inks (very detailed). I’m sure there is a huge amount of material out there that you could draw from.
That would also be at Hillhold and Museum Village, I guess
From Leonard DeBuck, Warwick Town Board Member and Sod Farmer.
Is there a re-use for the Pine Island School?
Take a “look see” at the now closed Pine Island Elementary School as a possible location for classes, gathering spaces, or special events? Please let me know ASAP. After all, this school is located in Pine Island, and Pine Island is the “Heart of the Black Dirt Region”, and the Wallkill River runs right through here
How can arts and artists contribute to a more vigorous agricultural economy?
How can the farms and farmers help develop new venues for arts and artists?
Here come the responses:
from Sandy Leonard, Supervisor, Town of Monroe
Add Arts to Farmers MarketsEvery place in OC that has a Farmers Market could invite artists of that area to come sell their wares just like the farmers do. Look at that Art and Agriculture or Agriculture and Art! Additionally, if any of the farmers that have farm stores on their farms wanted to partner with any local artists, they might give them their venue to exhibit and sell through on site. Jones Farm has quite the set up. I love this idea and think it’s a natural partnership opportunity-now you just have to convince the farmers and the artists. But tourists should love this.
See the reference to ta similar market in Columbia, MO
Looks like great minds think alike: I just saw this on the Arts Council FB page:
We are looking for artisanal craft vendors for our indoor Farmer's Market for Nov. and Dec. Our goal is to find some local artisans who make products suitable as gift items to participate in our pre-holiday markets.
Wendy Vandercliff
Pine Island Farmers Market Manager
c/o W Rogowski Farm
327-329 Glenwood Road
Pine Island, NY 10969
Phone - 845-258-8152
Contemporary Artist Exhibits at Farm-Oriented MuseumsI would suggest an art exhibit at the Orange County Farmers Museum focusing on Farm Scenes of Orange County. My mom was active with them when they first got started. It would tie the two topics or art and farming together nicely. I would be glad to donate some items for an exhibit of that nature as I have some very nice paintings and also some marvelous photographs of barns and cows from the county. Bob Score, who was very involved at the beginning of the museum, is a talented person who has done some beautiful pen and inks (very detailed). I’m sure there is a huge amount of material out there that you could draw from.
That would also be at Hillhold and Museum Village, I guess
From Leonard DeBuck, Warwick Town Board Member and Sod Farmer.
Is there a re-use for the Pine Island School?
Take a “look see” at the now closed Pine Island Elementary School as a possible location for classes, gathering spaces, or special events? Please let me know ASAP. After all, this school is located in Pine Island, and Pine Island is the “Heart of the Black Dirt Region”, and the Wallkill River runs right through here
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Twenty Websites of Interest for Arts and Agriculture
http://www.flickriver.com/groups/316541@N25/pool/interesting/
http://stonemandy.wordpress.com/http://miriamswell.wordpress.com/category/all-iceland-all-the-time/page/2/
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1772275
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sR6EN-gIog
http://www.essentialarts.org/artagriculture-2/
http://www.fieldsproject.com/
http://agsci.oregonstate.edu/art/index.html
http://theholliesonline.com/useful-links/
http://communityarts.ning.com/group/ecoartsalonanddiscussion/forum/topics/land-art-at-montsainthilaire?xg_source=activity
http://www.leichner.ca/Installations/pommier.html
http://www.productionssaint.com/landart/landart.html
http://andreboisvert.ca/ang_landart.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAI_mn8qIMc
http://ebookbrowse.com/land-art-brochure-2010-pdf-d96254722
Rebar Civic Center Victory Garden
Rebar Park Cycle
Windowfarms
Compass Green
David Bowen Growth Rendering
Greek Pavilion at Venice Biennial
http://stonemandy.wordpress.com/http://miriamswell.wordpress.com/category/all-iceland-all-the-time/page/2/
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1772275
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sR6EN-gIog
http://www.essentialarts.org/artagriculture-2/
http://www.fieldsproject.com/
http://agsci.oregonstate.edu/art/index.html
http://theholliesonline.com/useful-links/
http://communityarts.ning.com/group/ecoartsalonanddiscussion/forum/topics/land-art-at-montsainthilaire?xg_source=activity
http://www.leichner.ca/Installations/pommier.html
http://www.productionssaint.com/landart/landart.html
http://andreboisvert.ca/ang_landart.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAI_mn8qIMc
http://ebookbrowse.com/land-art-brochure-2010-pdf-d96254722
Rebar Civic Center Victory Garden
Rebar Park Cycle
Windowfarms
Compass Green
David Bowen Growth Rendering
Greek Pavilion at Venice Biennial
Arts and Agriculture Projects...a review
I’ve been collecting references and leads from people on how arts and agriculture have been working together. The results are very promising. Please add more
LOCAL
For 11 years, the Warwick Summer Arts Festival has been presenting on area farms:
music performances at Scheuermann Farms,
dance performances at Pennings Orchard, Scheuermann Farms and a horse barn.;
dramatic performances at Scheuermann, Pennings
8.24.11 Farm-Based Dramatic Presentation Bialas Farm, Goshen NY
NYC based Actor/playwright Will McAdams worked with us at our farm for several weeks this summer (as well as at a few other nearby farms) to learn more about farming and the farmers and farm workers of the black dirt region. He performed his one man show at a Warwick Arts festival last month. We are honored to have him perform his show for us at our farm this coming Tuesday evening after our CSA pick-up (refreshments at 6:30, show to follow).Adina and Jeff Bialas Donation asked 50 people attended event closed as sun set
For several years there have been Music Performances at Warwick Winery, Pennings Farm and Demerast Winery in the Village of Warwick is starting arts events.
REGIONAL
Art and farm festival: Neversink Farm in Claryville NY. Outdoor sculpture exhibition. Neversinkfarm.com/the_events.html Sat. 8/20/11
NATIONAL and INTERNATIONAL
Fostering Sustainable Behavior is a network of thousanssds of interested people. I started a thread there in July
Engaging the public through art in the out doors. For three years Metro Vancouver has been holding Forest Symphony. We invited 14 classical musicians to play in Pacific Spirit Park (a coastal temperate rain forest adjacent to Vancouver, BC). 3000 people attend! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRlnAPE6H5c Celina Starnes, Green Timbers, Pgm CoordinatorSNAP (Surrey s Natural Areas Partnership) Surrey, BC www.surrey.ca/SNAP
One approach is Marin Agricultural Land Trust's "Ranches and Rolling Hills" art show and sale in Marin County, California. The event showcases visual arts that highlight the agricultural landscape of the place while providing an exhibition and sales opportunity for the artists, with publicity and some proceeds going to the agricultural land preservation non-profit. www.malt.org/programs/sale.php Don Hodge, U.S. EPA, Region 9, Agriculture Program
The Green Artists League, Newburyport MA http://greenartistsleague.org/ One "articulture" project is The Alchemical Garden, a multi-year project to create an edible food garden adjacent to a newly opened rail-trail.. funding from New England Foundation for the Arts for this project. Elizabeth Marcus, Transition Newburyport transitionnewburyport.org
Iowa has an AgArts group for two to three years. The group has a loosely organized network of folks who are approaching the topic as poets, painters, chefs, sus ag farmers, eaters, and thespians. http://agarts.eserver.org/ Jean Eells, E Resources Group
I would like to be keep in touch with your developments as I have exactly the same interest here. A photo (arty) record of the agricultural area has been completed and we are now working with artists to develop a program. John Troughton, Australia jtrought@bigpond.net.au
Artists and Farmers collaborated to create new market Columbia, Missouri
The North Village Arts District Farmers and Artisans Market,
The marriage of rural growers and urban artists The market is intended to draw more visitors to “The more events that give people a reason to come there, the more they’ll want to spend time (here),We’ve created a market that offers wonderful value to the community and also gives them a reason to visit.” www.voxmagazine.com/stories/2011/06/30/farmers-artisans-market/
OTHER COMMENTS and IDEAS
Exotic projects are all fascinating, but ultimately nothing beats a good old fashioned community garden. use art [primarily but not necessarily exclusively, ag-related art] as an attraction and a means of creative education Ken Farmer212.620.5660 ext 321
LOCAL
For 11 years, the Warwick Summer Arts Festival has been presenting on area farms:
music performances at Scheuermann Farms,
dance performances at Pennings Orchard, Scheuermann Farms and a horse barn.;
dramatic performances at Scheuermann, Pennings
8.24.11 Farm-Based Dramatic Presentation Bialas Farm, Goshen NY
NYC based Actor/playwright Will McAdams worked with us at our farm for several weeks this summer (as well as at a few other nearby farms) to learn more about farming and the farmers and farm workers of the black dirt region. He performed his one man show at a Warwick Arts festival last month. We are honored to have him perform his show for us at our farm this coming Tuesday evening after our CSA pick-up (refreshments at 6:30, show to follow).Adina and Jeff Bialas Donation asked 50 people attended event closed as sun set
For several years there have been Music Performances at Warwick Winery, Pennings Farm and Demerast Winery in the Village of Warwick is starting arts events.
REGIONAL
Art and farm festival: Neversink Farm in Claryville NY. Outdoor sculpture exhibition. Neversinkfarm.com/the_events.html Sat. 8/20/11
NATIONAL and INTERNATIONAL
Fostering Sustainable Behavior is a network of thousanssds of interested people. I started a thread there in July
Engaging the public through art in the out doors. For three years Metro Vancouver has been holding Forest Symphony. We invited 14 classical musicians to play in Pacific Spirit Park (a coastal temperate rain forest adjacent to Vancouver, BC). 3000 people attend! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRlnAPE6H5c Celina Starnes, Green Timbers, Pgm CoordinatorSNAP (Surrey s Natural Areas Partnership) Surrey, BC www.surrey.ca/SNAP
One approach is Marin Agricultural Land Trust's "Ranches and Rolling Hills" art show and sale in Marin County, California. The event showcases visual arts that highlight the agricultural landscape of the place while providing an exhibition and sales opportunity for the artists, with publicity and some proceeds going to the agricultural land preservation non-profit. www.malt.org/programs/sale.php Don Hodge, U.S. EPA, Region 9, Agriculture Program
The Green Artists League, Newburyport MA http://greenartistsleague.org/ One "articulture" project is The Alchemical Garden, a multi-year project to create an edible food garden adjacent to a newly opened rail-trail.. funding from New England Foundation for the Arts for this project. Elizabeth Marcus, Transition Newburyport transitionnewburyport.org
Iowa has an AgArts group for two to three years. The group has a loosely organized network of folks who are approaching the topic as poets, painters, chefs, sus ag farmers, eaters, and thespians. http://agarts.eserver.org/ Jean Eells, E Resources Group
I would like to be keep in touch with your developments as I have exactly the same interest here. A photo (arty) record of the agricultural area has been completed and we are now working with artists to develop a program. John Troughton, Australia jtrought@bigpond.net.au
Artists and Farmers collaborated to create new market Columbia, Missouri
The North Village Arts District Farmers and Artisans Market,
The marriage of rural growers and urban artists The market is intended to draw more visitors to “The more events that give people a reason to come there, the more they’ll want to spend time (here),We’ve created a market that offers wonderful value to the community and also gives them a reason to visit.” www.voxmagazine.com/stories/2011/06/30/farmers-artisans-market/
OTHER COMMENTS and IDEAS
Exotic projects are all fascinating, but ultimately nothing beats a good old fashioned community garden. use art [primarily but not necessarily exclusively, ag-related art] as an attraction and a means of creative education Ken Farmer212.620.5660 ext 321
Monday, August 15, 2011
Orange County, New York -- NEA Our Town Grant
The Wallkill River School, in Montgomery, NY, and several Orange County partners, recieved an Our Town grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to explore the connections between Arts and Agriculture in four different ways:
1. Hold four meetings in the County to get arts and ag people brainstorming about common ground and mutually-beneficial events. September 8 at the Wallkill River School in Montgomery, NY. September 26 at Soons Orchard in New Hampton . October 13 at The Citizen's Foundation in Sugar Loaf, NY and November 2 at Brotherhood Winery in Washingtonville.
2. Continue The Wallkill River's popular program of plein air painting events on farms throughout the County.
3. With the Orange County Department of Planning, complete an economic impact study on both arts and agriculture in Orange County.
4. Encourage City-to-Farm activities. Orange County is a key region in the New York City Foodshed and we want to develop stronger ties with city-based groups interested in agriculture, local food, sustainable living and underscore the importance of arts in this.
November 20. 2011
We are about four months into this project and are now looking for the right group of artists and farmers to create programming for the next season(s). If the information in these blogs interests you, please COMMENT and make yourself known.... and contact the Orange County Arts info@ocartscouncil.org
1. Hold four meetings in the County to get arts and ag people brainstorming about common ground and mutually-beneficial events. September 8 at the Wallkill River School in Montgomery, NY. September 26 at Soons Orchard in New Hampton . October 13 at The Citizen's Foundation in Sugar Loaf, NY and November 2 at Brotherhood Winery in Washingtonville.
2. Continue The Wallkill River's popular program of plein air painting events on farms throughout the County.
3. With the Orange County Department of Planning, complete an economic impact study on both arts and agriculture in Orange County.
4. Encourage City-to-Farm activities. Orange County is a key region in the New York City Foodshed and we want to develop stronger ties with city-based groups interested in agriculture, local food, sustainable living and underscore the importance of arts in this.
November 20. 2011
We are about four months into this project and are now looking for the right group of artists and farmers to create programming for the next season(s). If the information in these blogs interests you, please COMMENT and make yourself known.... and contact the Orange County Arts info@ocartscouncil.org
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