A SPROUTIME Kids Workshop
with Leslie Labowitz Starus
Leslie Labowitz Starus, Proposal for a Cover of Chrysalis Magazine, 1979. Photocollage, dimensions variable. Image courtesy of the artist.
Saturday, November 2
11am - 1pm
Audubon Center at Debs Park (4700 Griffin Ave, Los Angeles, CA)
Free to attend, registration required
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Join us on November 2 for an afternoon under the Peppercorn Tree with artist, activist, and urban farmer Leslie Labowitz Starus! Considered an expert in the field of sprouting and an authority on urban farming and farmers’ markets, the artist will lead children and their families through educational craft making and tasting of green superfoods.
For over 30 years, Labowitz Starus has created performances and installations as SPROUTIME. This social art project began as a garden-sized urban sprout farm in the late 1970s, but quickly developed into an organic farm and small business. She expanded her operations to a three-quarter acre agricultural site and food processing facility in the San Fernando Valley in LA County, growing, manufacturing and distributing organic products throughout Southern California. More info can be found at www.sproutime-is-now.com
There will be hummus and salad to make, taste, and share. Families are welcome to pack their own lunch for their little ones and encouraged to bring water and sunscreen as the event will be held outdoors.
Accessibility:
The Audubon Center is wheelchair accessible, from street level. Only service dogs are allowed at the Audubon Center, so please leave your furry friends at home. Parking is limited, so if the small lot is full please park along Griffin Ave. and use the dirt walking path up to the Center. Further information can be found at https://debspark.audubon.org/visit
Leslie Labowitz-Starus, Los Angeles artist and entrepreneur, is best known for her public performance work on violence against women in collaboration with Suzanne Lacy from 1977–82. In 1972, she was a Fulbright scholar in Germany, where she worked with Joseph Beuys, and considers herself an Art/Life artist. Since 1980, her art work has shifted to ecological concerns, primarily focusing on food and agriculture. She has maintained her SPROUTIME project for over thirty years.
This event is part of ECOTONES, a collaborative programming series presented on the occasion of the exhibition Life on Earth: Art & Ecofeminism at The Brick. Four public programs will be led by an artist or artist-collective to explore local agriculture, foraging, food and herbalism as ritual, and biodiversity.
Through this collaboration, these two L.A.-based art organizations are modeling an ecofeminist ethos by sharing authorship, and collectively generating materials and resources. Taking place in conjunction with the Getty Foundation’s ambitious initiative PST ART: Art & Science Collide, ECOTONES is part of a region-spanning cultural moment, reaching vast audiences interested in the intersection of art, food, feminism, and sustainability.
Support for this program series is provided by Kim and Keith Allen-Niesen, The Maurice Marciano Family Foundation, and Olivia Marciano.
Lead support for Life on Earth: Art & Ecofeminism is provided by Getty and PST Art: Art & Science Collide, with additional generous support by The Margaret Morgan and Wesley Phoa Fund, The National Endowment for the Arts, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, The Knox Foundation, the Teiger Foundation, and the Wilhelm Family Foundation.