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A Can for All Seasons II at "Taste of Milpas"

Posted by cafpress on: Tue 3rd Sep, 2013

Saturday, September 28, 3-7pm

A Can for All Seasons II  at "Taste of Milpas," organized by the Milpas Community Association

The Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara is proud to participate in this community event with a free, art-making workshop inspired by New York-based artist, Alejandro Diaz. A Can for All Seasons II is a hands-on art activity that celebrates the overlap between art and everyday life. Inspired by the practice in rural households of growing plants in empty grocery-store cans, Diaz created four sculptural reproductions of brand-name canned goods, each representing a different type of food that is indigenous to Mexico: corn, chiles, chocolate, and tomatoes. The artist affectionately observes and celebrates the practice of "making do," of using something on hand to create an aesthetic object. For this project, the museum invites  participants of all ages to make their own planters using recycled cans, soil, and a variety of seeds to take home.

Alejandro Diaz, A Can for All Seasons, 2005, Courtesy of The Public Art Fund, NY

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