Hungry Planet

Oxfam action corps event!

sunday, September 25th from noon to 4pm

at the franklin park conservancy

1777 east broad street

please stop by the oxfam table and say hi,

learn more about volunteering

and the grow campaign!!

Hope to see you there!

Market Days
Sunday, September 25, 12 – 4pm
Visit with and buy from those who grow, tend, harvest, milk and feed the Ohio food we know and love, including Snowville Creamery, Frijolito Farmsand Luna Burger.

HUNGRY PLANET:
LOCAL FOOD, GLOBAL VIEW
AUGUST 20 – NOVEMBER 6, 2011

Explore local and global food culture through art and horticulture displays, children’s interactives and a full menu of programs for all ages.

See what families eat around the world in eye-opening, large-scale photographs from the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats by Peter Menzel and Faith D’Alusio. Learn about the locales and diets through a display of tropical fruiting and edible plants and a large children’s interactive area.

Share a photograph of your family with a week’s worth of groceries and be a part of the Hungry Planet exhibition. Photographs can be submitted to dashworth@fpconservatory.org.

Reflect on American diets through a three-dimensional juried art show, featuring works by local artists and juried by Michael Mercil, Associate Professor and Chair of Graduate Studies in the Department of Art at The Ohio State University.

Wander through an outdoor fantasy garden of blown glass pumpkins, gourds, fruits and vegetables created by Michael Cohn and Molly Stone of Cohn-Stone Studios. These dazzling art pieces lead the way to the Conservatory Hot Shop, a live glassblowing studio offering daily demonstrations. Cohn-Stone glass art is available for purchase in Botanica, the Conservatory's gift shop and greenhouse.

Tour the expansive edible garden displays at the ScottsMiracle-Gro Community Garden Campus. The berry house, apiary, culinary, herb, fragrance and medicinal gardens, a live-fire cooking theater and demonstration kitchen will be a hub of activity for classes and programs throughout the exhibition.

Guided tours of the Campus are offered daily at 3pm, weather permitting.

An audio tour enhances the experience with additional information about many components of the exhibition. Visitors control what they hear, when and in what order by listening to prompts on their mobile phone. The tour is free, but cell phone carrier charges apply.

About Cohn-Stone Studios
Michael Cohn and Molly Stone have been making glass art pieces at their studio in Richmond, California, since 1980. Many of their pieces are inspired by nature and the horticultural world. Molly is an avid gardener as well as a glass designer/ blower and has created an art garden showroom as a part of the glass blowing studio. Their work has been exhibited throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, Scandinavia, Japan and South America; it is included in numerous museum, corporate, private art and botanical garden collections and has been featured in a variety of garden venues. http://www.cohnstone.com

About the Juried Art Show
An exhibition of sculpture by eight local artists that explores the theme “What America Eats” is displayed throughout the Conservatory’s biomes. Ohio artists were invited to submit their ideas for artworks expressing their commentary on American food culture and proposals were juried by Michael Mercil, Associate Professor of Art and Chair of Graduate Studies in the Department of Art at The Ohio State University.

Artists include: Jim Arter, Jesse Hemminger, Abram Kaplan, John McCutcheon, Lauri Lynnxe Murphy, Andrea Myers, Ann Corley Silverman, Austin Stewart. Selected works include a “farming machine” and a robot powered by sauerkraut.

Juror Michael Mercil lives in Columbus, Ohio where he is an Associate Professor and Chair of Graduate Studies in the Department of Art at The Ohio State University. Mercil’s art explores the realms of “the near, the low, the common” and includes public projects: Murmeration (with Ann Hamilton and Ben Rubin) Battery Park City, NYC (2009); Halos for New York City, Battery Park City (2009). In 2006, Mercil planted The Beanfield as an “agri/cultural” experiment and partnership with the Wexner Center for the Arts, the OSU Department of Art Living Culture Initiative and the Social Responsibility Initiative in the College of Food, Agricultural and Environmental Sciences. Among the awards and recognitions Mercil has received are a Harpo Foundation Visual Artist Award (2010); Battelle Endowment for Technology and Human Affairs Research Award (2009) and Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship (2009, 2005).