When: 
Saturday, August 5, 2017 - 10:00am - 10:30pm
Where: 
Easton Farmer's Market, Center Square
Presenter: 
Sam van Aken
Price: 
Free

Artist Sam van Aken will give a grafting demonstration in connection with his "Tree of 40 Fruit" project for the Karl Stirner Arts Trail. He will also give a brief introduction to the Tree of 40 Fruit project on the Karl Stirner Arts Trail in addition to his upcoming Grossman Gallery exhibition, Streuobstwiese. The gallery installation will be a tantalizing introduction to Streuobstwiese, van Aken’s project to establish orchards of heirloom fruit trees. Streuobstwiese (pronounced (strī-oːpst-vēzə), 16TH century German for “community owned, meadow orchard,” evolves out of van Aken’s “Tree of 40 Fruit” projects—in which heirloom orchards were preserved by collapsing them onto a single tree through the process of grafting. The Streuobstwiese “explodes” the “Tree of 40 Fruit” to create an orchard of individual antique fruit trees. The exhibition will include fruit trees removed from soil, exposing branch and root structure; van Akens’s botanical illustrations; sanded tree stumps which show transitions at the juncture of graft and trunk; peach “whips” suspended from the ceiling.

 

The artist will transforms the Grossman Gallery into an orchard unlike any you’ve seen before. Amongst remnants of antique fruit trees and delicate botanical drawings the exhibition considers issues of  agricultural and cultural preservation, food security and diversity.

 

At 1:30 p.m. van Aken will also demonstrate grafting at the Tree of 40 Fruit on the Karl Stirner Arts Trail.

 

The exhibition is presented in collaboration with the Karl Stirner Arts Trail.

 

Van Aken is the Lafayette Art Galleries' Detwiller Visiting Artist, and the Karl Stirner Arts Trail Artist in Residence

 

Sponsored by: 
Lafayette Art Galleries, Easton Farmer's Market

Contact information

Name: 
Michiko Okaya
Phone: 
6103305361
Email: 
okayam@lafayette.edu