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<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Hello All!</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Just a reminder - tonight is</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> the final artist talk of the Fall semester
at FAR (<span style="border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">3216 Sessions Road </span>Tallahassee, FL). You don’t want to miss this event! </span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="background:white"><b><u><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:blue;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.samvanaken.com/__;!!Epnw_ITfSMW4!5VU4Pulyh6Jn6mHPujAt3vCZ3wvexz5DytBegWGYy5cqJZlVVodA9QKylkMGY0_kKg$" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Sam
Van Aken</span></a></span></u></b><b><u><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:blue;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in"> </span></u></b><u><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">| <b>Tuesday,
December 10 @ 7pm</b></span></u><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">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><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">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. 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, <i>The Open Orchard</i> 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. <i>The Open Orchard</i> 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><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Take care,</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#201F1E">Florida State University | <span style="background:white">College of Fine Arts</span> </span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#201F1E"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#201F1E"><a href="mailto:tahart@fsu.edu">tahart@fsu.edu</a> | 540.220.5629</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#201F1E"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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