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Juan William Chavez: Art Pollination
This exhibition is part of the City of Orlando鈥檚 2025 Bloomberg Philanthropies Public Art Challenge project, Art Pollination, which aims to use art to raise awareness about food insecurity and promote solutions. Juan William 颁丑谩惫别锄: Art Pollination presents the social practice of artist Juan William 颁丑谩惫别锄, rooted in a holistic view of aesthetics, ecology, ritual, craft, labor, activism, and his Peruvian heritage. Art Pollination is a multi-media installation featuring drawings, embroidery, zines, artifacts, and ephemera that reflect a specific archaeology of place and how that place mines creativity through the cross-pollination of art and ideas. At the museum, 颁丑谩惫别锄 has created new paintings, drawings, ephemera, and sculpture over the last two years based on community collaboration that integrates aesthetics, garden cultivation, indigenous thought, and local histories to address themes related to accessing healthy food, food sovereignty, and the environment.
The concept of creative art pollination is deeply rooted in 颁丑谩惫别锄's practice and within the City of Orlando community. This collaborative public art project highlights the significant efforts being made to alleviate food insecurity. Working together over the last year, creatives learned from and highlighted key local non-profit partners Black Bee Honey, 4Roots, Hebni Nutrition Consultants, Inc., Ideas for Us-Fleet Farming, Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida, and the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (UF/IFAS), Orange County. The grant further supports local artists鈥� initiatives and art installations at various locations, including murals, garden beds, urban trail markers, community billboards in partnership with The Mennello Museum of American Art, Downtown Arts District, FusionFest, and Terrace Gallery, City Hall. The project aims to harness the transformative power of public art to spark conversations and collaborations that can lead to innovative solutions for addressing food insecurity, thereby significantly impacting the City of Orlando. To learn more, visit orlando.gov/artpollination.
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This exhibition is part of the City of Orlando鈥檚 2025 Bloomberg Philanthropies Public Art Challenge project, Art Pollination, which aims to use art to raise awareness about food insecurity and promote solutions. Juan William 颁丑谩惫别锄: Art Pollination presents the social practice of artist Juan William 颁丑谩惫别锄, rooted in a holistic view of aesthetics, ecology, ritual, craft, labor, activism, and his Peruvian heritage. Art Pollination is a multi-media installation featuring drawings, embroidery, zines, artifacts, and ephemera that reflect a specific archaeology of place and how that place mines creativity through the cross-pollination of art and ideas. At the museum, 颁丑谩惫别锄 has created new paintings, drawings, ephemera, and sculpture over the last two years based on community collaboration that integrates aesthetics, garden cultivation, indigenous thought, and local histories to address themes related to accessing healthy food, food sovereignty, and the environment.
The concept of creative art pollination is deeply rooted in 颁丑谩惫别锄's practice and within the City of Orlando community. This collaborative public art project highlights the significant efforts being made to alleviate food insecurity. Working together over the last year, creatives learned from and highlighted key local non-profit partners Black Bee Honey, 4Roots, Hebni Nutrition Consultants, Inc., Ideas for Us-Fleet Farming, Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida, and the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (UF/IFAS), Orange County. The grant further supports local artists鈥� initiatives and art installations at various locations, including murals, garden beds, urban trail markers, community billboards in partnership with The Mennello Museum of American Art, Downtown Arts District, FusionFest, and Terrace Gallery, City Hall. The project aims to harness the transformative power of public art to spark conversations and collaborations that can lead to innovative solutions for addressing food insecurity, thereby significantly impacting the City of Orlando. To learn more, visit orlando.gov/artpollination.
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