Seeds InService / Lemonade Social
@ Compound Yellow, CY Gallery
244 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60302
Opening Saturday, August 25th, from 9AM - 4PM
On view through Saturday, August 25th
August 25 marks the end of Seeds InService’s exhibition in the CY Gallery; it also marks the beginning of the fall season for the Lucy Flower Garden in the yard of Compound Yellow.
Come see the last day of the show and learn about the winter work of plants to prepare for their new life in spring!
Also, join us for a lemonade social featuring an artist’s yard sale! Original artworks, art materials, designer women’s clothing, collectibles, housewares, toys, boys jeans, musical instruments, chairs, mid century modern furniture, pottery and all sorts of objects of curiosity! All proceeds go toward funding our year round free programming!
Bring your friends!! Share widely, help support our collaborative art space!
About The Lucy Flower Self-Reliance Garden
The Lucy Flower Self-Reliance Garden, is a garden featuring plants reflecting the theme of self-sustainability. Some of the concerns are practical: how in our busy world can we work together as a group to tend to a garden which provides us life? And they are also conceptual: what does self-reliance encompass? The project will explore the feminist theories of feminized labor (domestic arts, cooking, and teaching) and consider the ways women’s empowerment can work towards a more sustainable system. The garden will include drought-resistant plants, easy-to-grow foods and medicinal herbs, as well as advocacy efforts for seed-saving, community garden development, and even growing indoors.
Seeds InService (Melissa H. Potter and Maggie Puckett) will also launch the book, An Illuminated Feminist Seed Bank. The project is a look back at our five years in the Papermaker’s Garden in Chicago and the work moving forward with the Compound Yellow gallery. The book includes stories about our feminist curated beds, a catalog of our artworks, performances, and events, and an index of plants we describe as the world’s first feminist seed bank. Commissioned essays by Claire Pentecost and Tricia Van Eck will be included.
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Tags: Chicago, Compound Yellow, CY Gallery, Illinois, Lemonade Social, Maggie Puckett, Melissa H. Potter, Oak Park, Seeds InService, Seeds InService / Lemonade Social, Seeds InService: An Illuminated Feminist Seed Bank
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