Join the Veggie Nuggets for a collective painting made of potato and wood block prints and vegetable dyes that represent the food we waste on a daily basis. The canvas, a roller that rotates throughout the day, will slowly change colors.
Wasted Potential explores the long and short term impacts of food waste on the environment and on our communities, as well as composting in artwork as an alternative to the status quo. The block printing will be done on a large banner of fabric to create a collective mural, created near a farmer's market whose beloved compost bins have recently been removed.
While you're there, learn from these composting champions about the benefits of turning food scraps into “black gold.”
Artist spotlight: learn about the Veggie Nuggets, a 2024 Street Work Earth participant and youth climate action group participating in state and local advocacy and raising awareness about composting in NYC; check out their PSA!
What is composting? And why do it? Learn about the science, its effects on climate change, and how our post industrial garbage practices poison BIPOC and lower-income communities.
About Mierle Laderman Ukeles' "Manifesto for Maintenance Art 1969!", which describes an art practice that reveals the invisible labor of daily care — in homes, public spaces, institutions.
Image: Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Washing/Tracks/Maintenance Outside, 1973. Performance view, Wadsworth Atheneum, 23 July 1973. From Wikiart.
