Our Food Access

Our Food Access: February 20 2017-March 27 2017
Event February 23 2017

"The most valuable of all arts," said Abraham Lincoln, "will be the art of deriving a comfortable subsistence from the smallest area of soil. No community whose every member possesses this art, can ever be the victim of oppression of any of its forms. "

Our access to food has changed drastically over the last century. Where we once found sustenance in home gardens and family farms, we are now largely dependent on supermarkets and global economic forces beyond our control. The industrialization of agriculture and livestock production has gravely impacted our environment and shifted what we see on our plates.

Our Food Access approaches artists who look at that change critically, from where we source food to what we eat and how we can make healthier and more sustainable choices.

Artists: Coriana Close (Memphis, TN), Tattfoo Tan (New York, NY), Marlos E'van (Nashville, TN), Preston Mitchell (Nashville, TN), Trap Garden (Nashville, TN), Amy C. Evans (Houston, TX)