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<span style="font-family: Candara, Optima, sans-serif; color: black; border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;">Please join us for the final artist talk of the Fall semester at FAR. You don’t want to miss this event! </span><span style="font-family: "Avenir Roman", sans-serif; color: black"></span></p>
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<b><u><span style="font-family: "Avenir Roman", sans-serif; color: rgb(149, 79, 114); border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in"><span style="color: blue"><a href="https://www.samvanaken.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Candara, Optima, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;">Sam
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<b>Tuesday, December 10 @ 7pm</b></span></u><span style="font-family: "Avenir Roman", sans-serif; color: black"></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Candara, Optima, sans-serif; color: black; border: 1pt none windowtext; padding: 0in; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;">Sam Van Aken is a contemporary artist and Associate Professor of sculpture at Syracuse University who works
beyond traditional modes of art making, crossing artistic genres and disciplines to develop new perspectives on such themes as communication, botany, agriculture, climatology, and the ever-increasing impact of technology. Employing “anti-structures and unknowing
as generative processes”, Van Aken’s interventions in the natural and public realm are seen as metaphors that serve as the basis of narrative, sites of place making, and in some cases even become the basis of scientific research.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Candara, Optima, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;">Sam will discuss work and research involving his Tree of 40 Fruit, living art sculptures and specimens that preserve the diversity of the world's heirloom, antique,
and native varieties of stone fruit.</span><span style="font-family: "Avenir Roman", sans-serif"><span style="font-family: Candara, Optima, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Candara, Optima, sans-serif; color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;">Employing
“anti-structures and unknowing as generative processes”, Van Aken’s interventions in the natural and public realm are seen as metaphors that serve as the basis of narrative, sites of place making, and in some cases even become the basis of scientific research.
Combining public art and environmental preservation, </span><span style="font-family: Candara, Optima, sans-serif; color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;"><i style="line-height: normal;">The Open Orchard</i></span><span style="font-family: Candara, Optima, sans-serif; color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;"> will
be an expansive new artwork by Sam Van Aken on Governors Island that takes the form of an orchard of 50 fruit trees. Each individual tree will contain multiple varieties of peaches, plums, apricots, nectarines, cherries and apples that were historically grown
in the New York City region over the past 500 years but which have been lost to climate change and the industrialization of agriculture.</span><span style="font-family: "Avenir Roman", sans-serif; color: black"><span style="font-family: Candara, Optima, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Candara, Optima, sans-serif; color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;"><i style="line-height: normal;">The
Open Orchard</i></span><span style="font-family: Candara, Optima, sans-serif; color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;"> brings these native and heirloom varieties back as living trees and shares them with the public, giving everyone a chance to
see and taste fruits that, in some cases, haven’t been available for centuries. At the same time, the orchard will serve as a living gene bank, safeguarding biodiversity for future generations.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Candara, Optima, sans-serif; color: black; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;">The FAR & Away visiting artists series at the FSU Facility for Arts Research (FAR) is supported by the FSU College of Fine Arts. </span></p>
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