Join us on Wednesday, March 8 in Gillespie Gallery of the Art and Design building to make your own native seed-bombs! Seed bombs are often used to protest neglected green spaces and promote the growth of pollinator-friendly flowers. The workshop will begin with an intention-setting meditation, a brief presentation on the origin of seed-bombs, and hands-on making of seed-bombs.
Workshops will be held in one-hour blocks beginning at 1:30pm and ending at 6:30pm. Please RSVP to select your time.
RSVP: https://app.e2ma.net/app2/audience/signup/1980528/1912535/
About the Artist: Naoco Wowsugi is one of 22 woman artists in the Cast/Recast exhibition. Her cross-disciplinary and community-engaged art projects range from portrait photography, participatory performance to horticulture, highlighting and fortifying everyday communal and interpersonal identities. Her art practice blurs the lines between being an artist and an engaged citizen.
Naoco’s Inspiration and Related Resources:
Masanobu Fukuoka (https://f-masanobu.jp/about-masanobu-fukuoka/)
The One-Straw Revolution: An Introduction to Natural Farming
Sowing Seeds in the Desert: Natural Farming, Global Restoration, and Ultimate Food Security
Documentary:
Final Straw: Food, Earth, Happiness by Patrick M. Lydon and Suhee Kang.
Influence:
Permaculture: A Designers' Manual Book by Bill Mollison
My Neighbor Totoro by Hayao Miyazaki
References:
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
Capital in the Anthropocene by Kohei Saito
Green Guerillas (https://www.greenguerillas.org/) Youtube Video about them: How radical gardeners took back New York City (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_g2CaF12xxw)