For two weeks Antje and Wapke did workshops and lectures with the Social Practice students at the California College of the Arts, including a one-hour-village-shop and a farm-drawing-session. We were surprised by the high price we got for a tiny bottle of homemade frankonian Schnaps.
We also presented myvillages and the International Village Shop in a public lecture in the Studio for Urban Projects, followed by a communal potlock-dinner. Wapke had the ambition to sell a Höfer-Frauen-Häkeldeckentasche to San Francisco Hippies, and finally she made it.
Within the exhibition “The Gatherers: Greening our Urban Spheres” at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Susanne Cockrell and Ted Purves (www.fieldfaring.org) invited us to collaborate on a newspaper issue. Rural Background Drawings for this issue were generated during conversations at the YBCA and the Golden Gate Senior Center. We added a text focusing on our image of rural America.
We were happy to make friends with Amy Franceschini of Future Farmers (www.futurefarmers.com).
