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Victory Gardens [San Francisco]
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Victory Gardens
Victory Gardens 2007+ (VG2007+) is a concept currently being developed with the intention of being adopted by the City of San Francisco's Recreation and Park Department.
The program is a two year pilot project that supports the transition of backyard, front yard, window boxes, rooftops and unused land into food production areas. VG2007+ has the mission to create and support a citywide network of urban farmers by (1) growing, distributing and supporting starter kits for home gardeners, (2) educating through lessons, exhibitions and web sites and (3) starting and maintaining a city seed bank.
Each Victory Garden is delivered by a city gardener via the VG2007+ tricycle and includes a Starter Kit, lesson and one follow up harvest and seed saving lesson.
The program seeks the power to reinhabit some of the original Victory Garden space in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park and perform the duties of development, maintenance, and operation.
Amy Franceschini’s art practice questions and challenges social, cultural and environmental systems through interdisciplinary and collaborative practices manifested "on" and "offline" in the form of dynamic websites, installations, open-access laboratories, and educational platforms that encourage new formats for engagement and production. Often taking form as long-term engagements with the public, Amy's projects interrogate the politics of space and ways that globalization affects the natural and built environment. The images of growth pervading her work invoke an appreciation for finite resources and function as a metaphor to value and nurture our own creative resources.
Amy founded Futurefarmers in 1995, and Free Soil in 2004. Her solo and collaborative work have been included in exhibitions internationally including ZKM, Whitney Museum, NYMOMA and SFMOMA. She is the recipient of the Artadia Award, Eureka Fellowship and SFMOMA SECA. BFA, San Francisco State University; MFA, Stanford University.
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art has commissioned an exhibition of VG2007+ as well as providing programmatic support and publicity.
