The Public Art Event Series: Amy Franceschini

Futurefarmers and Free Soil

6:00, Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Maine College of Art, Portland

The Maine College of Art will host a talk by Amy Franceschini, an artist and educator who creates formats for exchange and production that question and challenge the social, cultural and environmental systems that surround her. An overarching theme in her work is a perceived conflict between humans and nature. Her work manifests as websites, installations, open-access laboratories and educational formats that often take form as long-term engagements with a specific place and public. She founded Futurefarmers in 1995, an international collective of artists which hosts an artists’ in residency program. In 2004, Amy co-founded Free Soil, an international collective of artists, activists, researchers and gardeners who work together to propose alternatives to the social, political and environmental organization of space. Franceschini’s work has been exhibited internationally and she is professor of Art and Architecture at the University of San Francisco.

Image: Victory Gardens (2007) Amy Franceschini.
Photo: Amy Franceschini.