Amy Franceschini/Futurefarmers www.futurefarmers.com Amy Franceschini is the Artist in Residence at the Garden for the Enviroment from March 2007-December 2007 Amy Franceschini works with notions of community, sustainable environments and the perceived conflict between humans and nature. Her work manifests "on" and "offline" in the form of dynamic websites, installations, open-access laboratories and educational formats that collectively question or challenge the cultural, social and political systems we live in. Amy founded Futurefarmers in 1995, and Free Soil in 2004. She received her MFA from Stanford University and has exhibited in the 2002 Whitney Biennial, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. She is a recent recipient of the Eureka Fellowship and teaches at the San Francisco Art Institute, CCA and Stanford University. Email: amy@futurefarmers.com Phone: (415) 552 2124 Garden for the Environment www.gardenfortheenvironment.org is located on 7th Ave. at Lawton Streets Garden for the Environment maintains a nationally acclaimed one-acre urban demonstration garden and offers environmental education programs about organic gardening, urban compost systems and sustainable food systems. Today, GFE ’s programs include four central educational elements; a three month intensive Gardening and Composting Educator Training program, monthly Compost Education workshops conducted at the garden and community gardens throughout San Francisco, the Resource Efficient Landscape Education series, and the School Education program offered in partnership with San Francisco Unified School District and San Francisco’s Department of the Environment. Email: info@gardenfortheenvironment.org Phone: (415) 731-5627 Please visit this wonderful location!
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