Category: Art
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Family Day With Terra Cultura at Coastal Roots Farm
Come say hello to Terra Cultura this coming Sunday, September 10, from 10am to noon, at Coastal Roots Farm’s Family Day! Stop by our table and join us for some fun, harvest-themed arts & crafts for all ages. Our last art project at Coastal Roots Farm was so much fun, we can’t wait to do…
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Paint and Plant
Over 300 participants joined us at our Paint and Plant event, at Coastal Roots’ Farm and Hangout Season Finale last Thursday afternoon. Children and adults of all ages sat under the shade of our tent, and painted terra-cotta pots, planted wildflower seeds inside, and learned about the importance of bees and other pollinators to our food and to…
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Putting the Culture Back Into Agriculture
Now that it’s official, we have an exciting announcement. We have been offered a residency at Leichtag Foundation’s Barn 8 art space, overlooking the scenic Coastal Roots Farm. While we continue to search for a site of our very own, Barn 8 will serve as our temporary base of operations for running a series of educational…
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Interview with Brittany De Nigris, Artist
Brittany De Nigris is an artist who explores various materials to construct poetic anatomies that often reside outside of language. Since she has a lot to say about the artist’s connection to time, place and materials, we thought our readers with backgrounds in art or agriculture would enjoy her unique perspective. She has been an artist…
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On The Edge
Near the suburbs where I grew up, 30 miles north of the Mexican border, there is a narrow 7-mile strip of nature preserve called Los Peñasquitos Canyon Preserve. A creek runs through a shady valley, and on the canyon ridges centuries-old oaks bump up against 30-year old housing developments. This is a place of transition.…
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Interview with Artist Lilah Friedland, Founder of Wandwood Stream Artist Retreat
Lilah Friedland is a multi-disciplinary artist who is building the Wandwood Stream artists retreat space in Gallatin, New York. Her creative career spans helping to start Scope art fair and playing in the band Brute Force, to working in such mediums as performance, poetry, sculpture, drawing and letterpress printing. We talked with her about art-making,…
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A Quiet Moment
Whether you’re emerging from a cold winter, or a much-needed rainy season like us here in California, may we be the first to welcome you out of quasi-hibernation. Many a great novel, album and painting has come from artists being driven indoors by cold and snow. And though those wintry snuggle-up-with-the-dog days can be relaxing, it’s…
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Agonizing Affections
For my first Terra Cultura blog entry, I wanted to share some new and very personal work with you. I chose these photographs because I think they resonate with our ethos, which is a turn back to the real: real food, real people, real talk about survival. We are facing a crisis in our everyday…
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Interview with Jennifer Frost
I had the pleasure of meeting Jennifer Frost while attending the Wild and Scenic Film Festival in January of 2016. She was one of the featured artists for the festival, and I was drawn to her creative re-use of discarded materials. I was excited to hear from her shortly after we launched the Terra Cultura…
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Art Farm Nebraska
Before Terra Cultura had a name, we referred to it simply as the art farm. We suspected other Art Farms existed and wanted to reach out to them as potential collaborators. A google search for the term yielded the well-established Art Farm Nebraska that has offered artist and writer residencies since 1991. The more I…