“Coextending: Art & Agriculture” with Rachel Meyers Hefferan

Rachel will share how her practice as an artist has moved away from the study of microbiology as a representation of larger networks and systems and has morphed into metaphors, meanings, & interspecies mentorship. This change in focus ultimately resulting in new artworks that hold many similar values and inspirational interests to the body of work made prior, but specifically honor her personal relationship to her livestock. These artworks include celebrations of natural & breed specific wool colors and textures, mixed with intentionality within the artworks with materials given to Rachel by other weavers and fiber folk over the last seventeen years. These two sources (her farm and her community) represent a sort of venn diagram of influence and inheritance for Rachel, both as a human and a maker.