Sistars Samaria Marley- Host Juniper's Garden

https://www.junipersgarden.org/

Junipers Garden is a small-scale family farm in Brandywine, Maryland. We grow herbs, flowers, African American heritage crops, and more. This year we are excited to offer a Herbal C.S.A. membership. The C.S.A. will provide fresh herbs, herbal products, seedlings, and nourishing foods. This C.S.A. is perfect for herbalists, foodies, gardeners, and spiritualists. Build your own home apothecary! 

https://issuu.com/mncppc/docs/brandywine_study/4

2023 Summer Solstice Oasis in The Woods:

An Art & Wellness Festival

Friday, June 16, 2023, 6-9 pm

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/oasis-in-the-woods-an-arts-wellness-festival-tickets-638393942467

"2023 Summer Solstice: The Land" is a living, creative, and cultural experiment with sustainable practice at its center. It incubates the artist's and community's personal and collective transformation.

For one week, June 12-16, 2023, artists of diverse disciplines and ages will converge at Juniper's Garden for a week-long residency. Their collective goal is to build generational bridges while working with ideas and materials that emanate from the land to create installations that answer the question, "How we will rebuild our communities to be stronger and recreate sustainable places to live." Importantly, this conversation addresses environmental justice's physical and psychological dimensions and impact. The residency will occur in Maryland's Prince Georges's County, the Southernmost region, and its remaining rural tier.

On Friday, June 16, 2023, 6-9 pm, as part of the 2023 Summer Solstice Oasis In The Woods: An Art & Wellness Festival at Juniper's Garden, the artists will host an open house where they will be present to offer free and open to the public gallery walks. In addition, they will be contributing stories of their experiences with the South County ecosystem and the process by which their installations came together.

HOST: Samaria Marley

Junipers Garden- 18104 Croom Rd Brandywine MD, 20613/ 202-270-2039 /samariamarley@gmail.com

About the Facilitators, Samaria is a farmer, herbalist, and co-owner of Junipers Garden. She has worked in agriculture and food justice in the D.C. metro region for over ten years. Her innovative and visionary approach has helped to usher in accessible models of food access and community-centered care. She developed the first low-cost C.S.A. model, C.R.I.S.P., in DC 2016. Then went on to manage The Farm at Kelly Miller in NE DC for four years. She is also the co-founder of the D.C. Mutual Aid Apothecary, a mutual aid organization that connects people to herbal medicine, education, and community.

She began her herbalism journey in 2015 and has studied with Wild Ginger Herbal Center, Well of Indigenous Wisdom, and the Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism. She is also a 2022 Braiding Seeds Fellow. Samaria and her partner Blain recently opened Junipers Garden, a small-scale vegetable and medicinal herb farm in Brandywine, MD, whose mission is to provide a space for black and brown people to be on land, reclaim their ancestral healing and farming practices, traditions, and seeds and gain access to valuable knowledge and resources. The farm hosts seasonal events, herbalism workshops, retreats, and natural building workshops.

D.M.V. Black Owned and Operated Farms

https://www.marylandmarketmoney.org/news/dmv-black-owned-and-operated-farms-d6ta3

Special thanks to the Black Church Food Security Network, Future Harvest, and Maryland Market Money participating markets for helping us compile this perpetually growing list. If we left somebody out, it was not intentional. Please let us know using the form below.

Maryland

Harwood Community Garden Baltimore, MD

Hidden Harvest Farm Baltimore, MD

Honey Hemp Farms Upper Marlboro, MD

Jenny's Market Friendship, Maryland

Kindread Hill Farm Ellicott City, MD

Maxine's Garden at Pleasant Hope Baptist Church Baltimore, MD

My Mustard Seed St. Leonard, MD

Myles Produce Capitol Heights, MD

Native Mountain Farm Boonsboro, MD

New Brooklyn Farms Prince George's County, MD

Peaceful Acres Farm Glenwood, MD

Plantation Park Heights Urban Farm Baltimore, MD

Pop! Farm Baltimore, MD

Primo Noir Capital Heights, MD

Purple Mountain Organics Takoma Park, MD

Real Food Farm Baltimore, MD

Strength to Love II Baltimore, MD

Sweet Love Flower Farm Upper Marlboro, MD

Tripple Springs Farm Brandywine, MD

Whitelock Community Farm Baltimore, MD

Windy Willow Farm Sunderland, MD

804 Cattle Company Upper Marlboro, MD

Backyard Basecamp Baltimore, MD

Baltimore Free Farm Baltimore, MD

Bearfoot Farm Baltimore, MD

BLISS Meadows Baltimore, MD

Bon Secours Community Works Baltimore, MD

Cherry Hill Urban Community Garden Baltimore, MD

Elements of Nature Clinton, MD

Curemore Farms Upper Marlboro, MD

Deep Roots Farm Brandywine, MD

Dodo Farms Brookeville, MD

Double Z Cowboy Corral Faulkner, MD

Empower Project Baltimore Baltimore, MD

Eco City Farms Riverdale, MD

Filbert Street Garden Baltimore, MD

Flower of the Forest Farm Lexington Park, MD

Four Mothers Farm Princess Anne, MD

Friends of Great Kids Farm Baltimore, MD

The Green Anarchist Annapolis, MD

The Greener Garden Urban Farm Baltimore, MD

Harlem Park Community Farm Baltimore, MD

The H.A.T. Shop (Healthy Alternative Treatment) MD

Washington, D.C.

Good Sense Farm Washington, DC

Three Part Harmony Farm Washington, DC

Soilful City Washington, DC

Cultivate the City Washington, DC

DC Greens Washington, DC

Dreaming out Loud Washington, DC

District Growers Washington, DC

Virginia

Gardens of Khmet Madison County, VA

GoGreen Farms and Greenhouses VA

Melanated Medicinals Prospect, VA

Mighty Thundercloud Edible Forest Birdsnest, VA

Sun Path Gardens Richmond, VA

Sylvanaqua Farms Montross, VA

Vanguard Ranch Gordonsville, VA

Waddle Om Farm Scottsville, VA

WoodBox Farm Engleside, VA

5th District Mini Farm Richmond, VA

Airport Food Forest Ashland, VA

Botanical Bites Provisions Fredericksburg, VA

Browntown Farms Warfield, VA

AgNCulture Brunswick County, VA

Carter Farms Orange County, VA

Cusheeba Earth Onley, VA

Haynie Farms Reedville, VA

Fitrah Farms Orange County, VA

https://farmersmarketcoalition.org/the-anti-racist-farmers-market-toolkit/

Rekindling this list of Black farmers and growers in the D.M.V. region (with a focus on Maryland) in honor of Black History Month. 

Black farmers comprised 14% of America's farmers almost a century ago. Today, they account for less than 2%. 

Maryland Market Money is proud to support Black farmers and food producers.

We encourage you to use your dollars to do the same at markets, farm stands, and C.S.A.s every month.

CALL for Abstract Artists/Installation Artists/Performance Art /Media/Film

Phantom Gallery Chicago Network:

CALL for Abstract Artists/Curators/Installation Artists/Performance Art /Media/Film

Miami Art Basel Dec 3-6, 2015

Application Deadline Extended July  31th,2015

Application documents
Please  copy application format from, http://phantomgallery.blogspot.com/p/art-fair-applications.html, and submit as  ONE PDF DOCUMENT (max 10 mg) to phantomgallerychicago@gmail.com  Subject: Miami/application-

Please note that websites cannot be taken into account in the selection process. 
Please do not include digital catalogs.

Application fees
The nonrefundable application fee of $40, for each application form, must be paid, before sending in the application. Application fees can be paid by credit card via online to Phantom Gallery Chicago Network Paypal. A receipt confirming payment has been received and processed will be generated.

Participation prices:

Feature in online catalog and, 10’ x 10’ entry                              $100
Outdoor Installation…………………………………………….        $100

Additional Fees:
Desired booth wall spaces:  S-250sf        M, 500 sf     L-750 sf    XL- 1000 sq.   
(Each artist will be given catalog featured photo, artwork, and bio)
Storefront: $10 square footage- (building owner)
Tent- (City of Miami- event tent fee’s, include licenses, security etc.)

The number of participating artists/curators is limited contingent upon spaces available. Decisions on admission are made exclusively by the curatorial selection committee.

Questions

We will be happy to answer any questions you may have about your application/ please contact our Gallery and Project Manager, via email at phantomgallerychicago@gmail.com

Lavon Nicole Pettis is a Creative Business Development Specialist who blends her background of Psychology and Sociology into the world of creative professionals such as fine artists, writers, actors, and cultural arts musicians with all of the business acumen of a comprehensive fine arts company.

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Jose Montoya, Artist, Activist , Musician, Sacramento Poet

Reposted: Original Article By Bill Lindelof and Stephen Magagnini Published: Thursday, Sep. 26, 2013 - 6:09 pm

Jose Montoya, Sacramento poet, and artist

 

Jose Montoya, a nationally known artist, poet, and musician, has died. Montoya, an art professor at Sacramento State for 27 years, was a co-founder of the Royal Chicano Air Force, an influential Chicano political artists group. Montoya died Wednesday at the age of 81.

Sacramento County Supervisor Phil Serna, whose father, the late Sacramento Mayor Joe Serna Jr. knew Montoya well, said that the Sacramento community had lost a gentle soul with an extraordinarily creative mind.

 

“He was someone who could use spoken word to conjure poignant imagery and promote a healthy contemplative state,” said Serna. “His poems gave us pause to reconsider our individual and cultural condition.”

Montoya was born in Escobosa, New Mexico, and grew up in central California. He worked with labor leader Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers.

He was Sacramento’s third poet laureate, named to the post by the Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission in 2002. He is the author of collections of poetry such as the acclaimed “In Formation: 20 Years of Joda.”

In interviews, Montoya said he learned arts from his mother, whose own artistic endeavors involved decorating church interiors. He also was the founder of Sacramento State’s Barrio Arts program.

Jose Montoya, one of the original members of the Royal Chicano Air Force, retouches the mural he and several other artists painted in 1977 at Southside Park. Montoya and the artists have been working on the mural, which has been vandalized, for more than two weeks. Monday, August 20, 2001, Sacramento, Calif.


THE SACRAMENTO BEE

blindelof@sacbee.com

Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/2013/09/26/5771355/jose-montoya-1932-2013.html#storylink=cpy