SEED: Climate Change Resilience

SEED: Climate Change Resilience

Seed: Climate Change Resilience is a community engaged arts project exploring seed, arid-land agri-Culture, resiliency, and climate change. Created by SeedBroadcast in collaboration with numerous New Mexico farmers and seed stewards, this project features an interactive public exhibition to inspire and activate dialogue around seed, global warming, local food, healthy communities, and the revitalization of bioregional agri-Cultural practices.

Collaborators and Partners
Acoma Ancestral Lands Farm Corp Program, Española Healing Foods Oasis/Tewa Women United, Mergirl Gardens, Tse Daa K’aan Lifelong Learning Community, UNM Land Arts of the American West, UNM Art & Ecology, Native Seeds/SEARCH, Rocky Mountain Seed Alliance, Desert Oasis Teaching Gardens, The Garden’s Edge Seed Travels, Albuquerque Museum, Cuatro Puertas, and many individual farmers and seed stewards who shared their Seed Stories.

EXhibition projects

It’s Not By Chance At All

These triptychs depict the cycles of agri-Culture, from seed to seed, hand to hand, from land and community over time, as these farmers, and the people and seeds they work with, nurture resiliency and climate appropriate agri-Culture on their land and in their communities.

WE are called to a deep intimacy

A sculptural sound installation presents Seed Stories from farmers, gardeners, and seed stewards about seeds and the resilience that grows from them and into our lives.

They Knew What Season They Were In For

This series of 19 archival pigment prints were created from photographs and audio interviews gathered by SeedBroadcast in partnership with farmers, seed stewards, and community educators in, Acoma, Española, La Villita, and Tse Daa K’aan, New Mexico.

Would We Have Seed

A time-lapse video projection recorded at HawkMoth Farm in Anton Chico, New Mexico. Comprised of over 90,000 images from May - October, it shows the daily life of a milpa from sunup to sundown over an entire growing season as people, plants, animals, soils, water, and more work together to make agri-Culture vital.

WE need to be humble to what comes

THIS MUD CLOUD mural is composed of words and painted in clay and earth gathered from throughout New Mexico.The colors of clay represent the different soils present in the bioregion and include soils given to us from New Mexico farmers.