11 articles on the intersections between contemporary art and urban agriculture

The project is the collaborative effort of the second year MA students in Exhibition and Museum Studies, History and Theory of Contemporary Art, and Urban Studies departments, San Francisco Art Institute.

Introduction
By Christina Wiles & Adam Prince

Excerpt:

Each year, the San Francisco Art Institute requires its graduate
students in its MA program to produce a collaborative project
based in the topic of their choosing. Eight months ago we, the 2010 cohort, began our collaboration. After countless hours of lively and often contentious conversation, we agreed to further explore the intersections between contemporary art and urban agriculture.

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Providence resident Than Wood has transformed a vacant lot on Westminster Street into a vegetable garden. He’s using his bicycle and its trailer to collect compost from neighbors. (Frank Carini/ecoRI staff photos)

Providence resident transforms vacant lot into vegetable garden

By Frank Carini
ecoRI – Rhode Island Environmental News
Apr. 27, 2010

Excerpt:

PROVIDENCE — Than Wood spent much of the winter befuddling real estate agents with a simple question.

He asked the agents if any of the property owners they represented would be interested in renting unused land to an urban farmer. None of the nearly two dozen middlemen he spoke with seemed to grasp the idea of growing food where a building once stood.

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