Farm/Art DTour: A Weekend In Reedsburg With Friends

Bubble Pub created by Jenny Hale and Gail Katz-James

My friends, Jami, Aaron, Molly, Betsy, Robin and I visited Reedsburg, Wisconsin earlier this month to see Farm/Art Dtour-a 50 mile drive through Sauk County with temporary art installations, local food vendors, performances and more!

On the way to Reedsburg from Chicago! Betsy and Molly in my glasses. :)

Invasive Species by Isabelle Garbani 

View above the corn.

Robin in a Farm Form titled, Listening-The Lost Art created by The Craker and Mittelstaedt familes

Too Much Pig by Brian Sobaski

An animated Robin.

Robin found this mushroom for me! Fungus!!!!!!

We visited Wormfarm and of course I was welcomed into the chickens home.

The Corner Pub. This picture expresses how good the day (and the beer) was.

We camped at Orange Cat Community Farm. Acorn squash at night!

In the morning a chicken got out and she liked being cuddled.

So we cuddled her.

Molly, Betsy and their corn. Waiting for the Amtrak home.

Passing through Milwaukee. A place I hope to visit next!

Anticipating Tomatoes

Last year I made these watercolor studies of a tomato I brought home from the farm. Tomatoes are on their way!

Shades of Eggs

Shades of Eggs, 8.75 x 5.25 inches, thread, metal, 2013

Big. Mighty. Moon.

Sunset Bike Riding and Moonlight Threading

Wormfarm through the trees.

I am sewing the many colors I have seen on chicken eggs.  I intend for the entire grid to be filled up.

Turkey playing in the puddles!

Interactive Art Piece

I have been invited by curator, Anni Holm, to create an interactive piece for her show Earth to Table at the West Chicago City Museum.  I have had a lot of interest lately in making artwork that viewers can be involved in.  This was the first idea I have come up with.

The statement and question would be placed on the wall, "Each fruit and vegetable has a season when they grow in the Midwest and when they taste their best.  What vegetables and fruits do you like to eat during each season?"

There are 4 plates for each season and surrounding each plate are plushie vegetables and fruits grown during that season.  They are velcroed to the wall and attached to the wall with jute so that the viewer can't put a tomato on the winter plate.  There is also velcro on the plate.  

I want to create a piece that is educational, fun, and touchable.  Children really like my work and I'd like to pay more attention to that in the future.  

Farmer Kim and Farmer Jacob

Happy Halloween!

We wore my overalls to work (Trader Joe's) today and called ourselves farmers. My pin says "support local organic farmers" and that is a chicken on Jacob's shoulder. A woman came through my line and told me she grew up on a farm in Ireland. The more I talk about farming to middle aged people the more I find out nearly every middle aged person either grew up on a farm or had a close relative who had a farm. Now there are so few farmers...who will grow our food? The answer is other countries....but that is a whole other blog post. :0 )

Today at Chipotle after 6pm, if you wear a family farm related costume you get a $2 burrito...so we are waiting for 6pm to come along so we can have dinner. My sister is going to be the cow I was last year.

Lan, Jacob, me, and Emily as a frightening bunny.