Co-Creations on the Farm with Lady Cannabis
Nov 9–17, 2024
Bushel is pleased to present Co-Creations on the Farm with Lady Cannabis, a gallery exhibition presented by Plant Pioneers, a project of Marguerite Uhlmann-Bower and collaborators. The exhibition highlights the group’s work with the vegetal landscape in the upstate New York farming community of Delaware County, where they attempt to explore the co-creative process between Plant and Farmer.
The project’s approach applies techniques that have yet to be tapped into on the farm, choosing to look beyond the human-centered farming value system towards one that is mutual, emerging, evolving and co-creative. One that makes less of an extractive and over-use, to one that gives a say to inter-species relationships. Plant Pioneers inquire with the vegetals themselves. Looking at how we all might be more regenerative in our practices, less destructive and more relational.
Would they, Plants, have preferences? Do they, Plants, already orchestrate farming activities? If so, how? Do they have impressions that offer guidance to farmer, gardener, Plant nursery person, arborists or even township road crew? This project asks, how might we acknowledge a new Plant-Farmer partnership in ways that are inter-relational, cyclical and inter-regenerative.
Plant Pioneers will lead a workshop guiding participants in Plant relation techniques on Saturday November 9 from 5-7 pm. WORKSHOP INFO HERE. This will be followed by a public reception from 7-9 pm.
The exhibition is open to the public for one week with the artist on these dates:
Wednesday, Nov. 13 from 10 am – 2 pm
Friday, Nov. 15 from 11 am – 2 pm
Saturday, Nov. 16 from 12 – 3 pm
Marguerite Uhlmann-Bower, retired R.N. and Clinical Herbalist is co-founder of Plants Speak-2024 and Plant Pioneers-2016. In 2017 she developed Cultivating Cognitive Agility training – programs that grow living inter-relationally, helping humans detect and navigate Plant impressions and natural Earth systems. Her programs nurture and assist in making sense of these connections through varied art forms, sound, somatic perceptions, self-guided dream states, crystallography and more. Contact: 3moonsisters@gmail.com 607-437-1218 www.PlantPioneers.org
This project is fiscally sponsored and made possible with funds from the Delaware County Arts Grants, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature and administered in Delaware County by the Roxbury Arts Group.