Food Podcast: Interactive art experience focuses on issue of food insecurity
On this episode of the Food Podcast presented by Clearview Federal Credit Union on the TribLIVE podcast network Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank showcases an interactive art experience at Contemporary Craft called Food Justice: Growing a Healthier Community Through Art.
This episode is part of the Food Bank’s Food Justice is Social Justice initiative. The goal of the initiative is to create awareness about social inequality, while educating the people about the numerous organizations in the region that are focused on ending racism and creating equality for all.
Food Justice is Contemporary Craft’s fourth socially-engaged exhibition. There are 15 artists participating in Food Justice, 13 at the main Lawrenceville location and two at the BNY Mellon Satellite Gallery, located at the Steel Plaza T-Station in Downtown Pittsburgh.
Food Justice exhibition will open on Friday, Sept. 10, and be on view through March 19, 2022.
The exhibition will feature 18 works across a variety of mediums, including glass, wood, fiber, ceramics, metals, paper, photography, printmaking and even plants. It will feature 24 community partners who helped bring this project to life through assistance with programming, education, outreach and awareness.
While there will be plenty of pieces of art to look at, visitors will also have the opportunity to interact with the exhibit.
“They’ll be able to experience a free drop-in activity, a few workshops and something a little different including a hydroponic garden,” said Rachel Saul Rearick, Executive Director of Contemporary Craft.
Rearick said the hope is that visitors will see, feel, and understand the issues of food insecurity in new ways and be moved to become part of the solution.
Participating artists include Gavin Benjamin, Jason Forck, George Bowes, Joan Iversen Goswell, Holly Hanessian, Michael Austin Diaz, Stefanie Herr, Amos Kennedy, Patty Kennedy-Zafred, Anna Metcalfe, Xena Ni, Mollie Ruskin, Jeff Schmucki, Wendy Deschene and Michael Logan Woodle.
To learn more about the Food Bank, visit pittsburghfoodbank.org.
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