Industrial Harvest at Roots & Culture’s “Hey, We’re All Beginners Here!”: August 7, 2010

Industrial Harvest, an artistic gesture spearheaded by artist and urban planner Sarah Kavage about nourishment, food systems, and the Chicago Board of Trade, will be featured in the group show “Hey, We’re All Beginners Here!” at Roots & Culture Contemporary Art Center, curated by Mike Wolf, from August 7 – September 4. “We Are All Beginners Here!” is a multi-headed hydra, a trans-temporal, trans-spatial, trans-disciplinary exhibition of mutable work that starts to re-imagine a different world.

Since 2008, Seattle artist and urban planner Sarah Kavage has been exploring the Chicago Board of Trade and its influence on Chicagoland's history, farming community, and what we eat. Her project, called Industrial Harvest, is part Michael Pollan and part Robin Hood – an artistic gesture that removes a tiny unit of wheat from the commodity system and gives it back to the people. This summer and fall she will be in Chicago, buying a 1000 bushel wheat futures contract on the Chicago Board of Trade, buying 1000 bushels of actual commodity wheat, having the wheat milled into flour, and giving the flour away to nourish people.

For the show’s opening on August 7, Courtney Moran, an independent food worker, will be grilling up free pizza made from the Industrial Harvest flour on the sidewalk outside the gallery for neighbors, friends, passers-by and gallery goers.

For more information on Industrial Harvest, see: www.industrialharvest.com
For more information on Roots & Culture Contemporary Art Center, see: www.rootsandculturecac.org
For more information on “Hey, We’re All Beginners Here!” see:
http://www.stopgostop.com/nca/webegin.html

WHEN: Opening Reception 6pm, Saturday, August 7, 2010
Exhibit runs August 7 – September 4, 2010
Gallery hours: Thursdays & Fridays 4-7 pm, Saturdays 12-6 pm or by appointment.

WHERE: Roots & Culture Contemporary Art Center, 1034 W. Milwaukee Ave. Chicago 60622

COST: FREE.

WHO: Sarah Kavage is an independent artist and urban planner whose work crosses discipline and medium to cultivate a dialogue about community, culture, and the world around us. A native Midwesterner, she was raised in back-to-the-land style in rural Ohio in the 70s and is now permanently based in Seattle. www.gogoweb.com/kavage

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CONTACT: Lauren Bishop, Paramount Public Relations, Inc
312.544.4191, lbishop@paramountpr.com