National & International Art Museums Feature Early Life Frame by Bonnie Ora Sherk

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Bonnie Ora Sherk’s art installation on Crossroads Community (the farm), an early Life Frame and pioneering, urban agriculture project,  which she founded and directed beginning in 1974, was featured in “Hungry City”at Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien Museum in Berlin, Germany, curated by Anne Kersten.  The exhibition was August 31st – October 28th, 2012. The artist who was in Germany to help mount the show, also presented a featured, illustrated lecture,  From The Farm To A Living Library. View a Gallery of the exhibit featured on DW.

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Another exhibit, “Green Acres: Artists Farming Fields, Greenhouses and Abandoned Lots”, curated by Sue Spaid, featured another installation of The Farm,including the artist’s original drawing of The Farm, seen below.  The exhibit was shown at the Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center from September 22, 2012 – January 20, 2013, and will open in the American University’s Museum in Washington, D.C., in September, 2013. Find out more about “Green Acres” here, and read an article about the exhibition.

A monograph in Frieze Magazine by Will Bradley of Bonnie Ora Sherk’s work with Crossroads Community (The Farm) can be found here

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