Aztec Seed Gathering and Open Sesame!

Written By Jeanette Hart-Mann
Join us for a morning of SeedBroadcasting with the Aztec Seed Savers and the film Open Sesame!

Bring seeds to swap and seed stories to share!

10am - Screening of Open Sesame
Followed by a discussion, seed swap, and tour of the SeedBroadcast Mobile Seed Story Broadcasting Station.

Saturday, April 11, 2015
10:00 am - 1:00 pm
City of Aztec Senior - Community Center
101 S. Park Ave
Aztec, NM 87410



Clarinda Loewen's saved seed, Montezuma, NM
Jeanette Hart-Mann

Jeanette Hart-Mann is a farmer, artist, activist and teacher committed to the transformative potential of traditional ecological knowledge, embodied land-based practices, creative engagement and more-than-human-relationships. Her current research is focused on agroecology, environmental justice, and eco-social storytelling. Her practice is iterative, emergent and interdisciplinary. She weaves farming, wild crafting, and ecological restoration with video, sculpture, photography, installation, fiber arts, and writing. Hart-Mann is Co-Founder and Co-Director of SeedBroadcast (seedbroadcast.org) an artist collective committed to uplifting the culture in agri-Culture through creative public engagement, Seed Stories and seed sharing. She is also lead farmer, seed steward, and shepherdess at HawkMoth Farm where she is designing and implementing experimental climate-resilient polycultures through integrative plant, animal, soil, and human habitation while producing food for local communities.  Hart-Mann is Co-Director of RAVEL at The University of New Mexico and Associate Professor of Art & Ecology. RAVEL is a field-based Art & Ecology program supporting the intersection of place-based research through art making, community-engagement and professional practice. She received her BFA, summa cum laude and University Honors, summa cum laude at The University of New Mexico and her MFA in Visual Arts from Vermont College of Fine Arts. 

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