In June 2019 Alabama-born, Minneapolis-based artist Tia-Simone Gardner began researching four homes in Alabama and Mississippi (Meridian/Philadelphia) that were inhabited by her mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother. Gardner made a public presentation and trips to Birmingham and East Mississippi. Gardner’s work will culminate as an artist book of essays and images. This is part of the artist’s ongoing study of …
October 27, 2018 Community members shared knowledge, seeds, recipes, and stories at the inaugural Garden Exchange Workshop. Longtime Garden Manager Catherine Shelton led discussions on cultivating community around food and agriculture. Participants gathered for coffee, conversation, and lessons on seasonal growing in Sumter County. Shelton demonstrated winter planting techniques, strategies for saving seeds, and propagating spring crops. She constructed a …
What is your truth? The CAUSE COLLECTIVE’s ongoing project In Search of the Truth (The Truth Booth) made a stop at Larkin’s Deli & Restaurant on Thursday, September 6, 2018. It is an interactive project in the form of a 15-foot-high inflatable speech bubble. Inside the booth, participants were invited to make a two-minute video responding to the open-ended prompt “The …