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.
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 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.
