Art and Food as Part of an Urban Commons with Mary Mattingly, 4/10
On April 10, Mary Mattingly will discuss how public art can foster coalition-building. The artist will focus on Swale, a floating food forest, covering its story and its next phase. The project brings together multiple communities engaged in the building and supporting of foodways in NYC as a vehicle of public food access.
Mary Mattingly
Artist Mary Mattingly is best known for large-scale sculptures of ecosystems and imagined futures. Mary Mattingly creates photographic collages and public sculptures of imaginary futures like Limnal Lacrimosa (of Lakes, Tears) in Montana; Vanishing Point in the UK; and Swale, a floating food forest in New York. Mattingly was awarded a 2023 Guggenheim fellowship. Her sculpture, Ebb of a Spring Tide, opened in May 2023 at Socrates Sculpture Park.
Kit Collins
Kit Collins is a public artist, muralist and illustrator based in Medford, MA. She is also a member of the Medford City Council, currently serving as its Vice President, where she focuses on housing and zoning. She has created public art for many communities around Boston and in the greater Northeast, and works with brands, campaigns and publications on illustrations for publications, branding and campaigns.
Kafi Dixon
Kafi Dixon is the Executive Director at the Common Good Cooperative, an urban farm in Dorchester where women of color learn about agriculture, entrepreneurship, food sovereignty, and access to green space. During the pandemic, Dixon's cooperative grew 500 pounds of produce and donated it to local families and senior living facilities. Dixon and her work are featured in a new documentary "A Reckoning in Boston," which premiered in 2021.
This event is open to everyone. For questions, contact amanda.pepper@tufts.edu.
