In a vast array of media—from ceramics, paper sculpture, metalwork, to live plants—15 artists explore divergent aspects of our food conundrum, and in particular, the growing disparity in the distribution of food resources around the world at fullercraft.
, the number of bee colonies per hectare has declined by 90% in the United States since 1962. Three out of four crops around the word depend on bee pollination.Artist Anna Metcalfe reflects on the importance of bees in her installation “Pop-Up Pollinator Picnic,” featuring 48 hexagonal ceramic picnic plates mounted together to provide a honeycomb effect. Plates in the original show featured a Minneapolis and St.
Artists Wendy DesChene and Jeff Schmuki take on corporate agriculture in their installation “Community Hydroponic Garden.” The piece features a live, growing vegetable garden set in tubes placed on a couple of sawhorses. The structure, built of recycled and refashioned commercial products, functions as an actual community project garden right in the gallery. The food grown will be harvested and donated to local organizations.
While the industrialization and commodification of food is one ripe theme in “Food Justice,” so is how the government has failed to support the equitable distribution of food. In the installation “Transaction Denied,” by Xena Ni and Mollie Ruskin, a cascade of cash register receipts and manila folders rain down from the ceiling. Amid the stream, an audio plays describing how Washington, D.C.
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