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| Press Release April 18, 2007 "Our Time at the Farm" teen photography show and "Plow Day" at the Farm Institute - a special Cinco de Mayo celebration cosponsored by the Center for Creative Expression and the Farm Institute. Event Date: May 5, 2007 Edgartown, MA—Next Saturday
the Center for Creative Expression's student photography
group, the "Farm Group," will exhibit the very best work
from their weekly photodocumentary expeditions throughout last
fall and winter to the Farm Institute in Katama in a show titled "Our
Time at the Farm." MVRHS
students Arno Ewing, Sophia Grimm, Stuart Rodegast, Seth Seeman,
Hilary
Wall, and Andy Walsh, under the direction of Janice Baer, director
of the
Center for Creative Expression, will be exhibiting their documentary
and
fine art photographs of life on the Farm - the livestock, the crops,
the The opening reception will be on Cinco de Mayo, Saturday May 5th, from 4:00-6:00PM, at the Farm Institute in Edgartown. The Farm gallery will be open Monday - Saturday, 9am - 5pm. The exhibit will run until May 19th. Also on Saturday, Liz Thompson and her oxen will be holding plowing demonstrations as part of the second annual Plow Day. Come help out and prepare the garden and fields using the traditional New England craft of plowing with oxen. The Center for Creative Expression is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to the personal, civic, and artistic development of Martha’s Vineyard teenagers. The center's other teen photography group, the Wednesday Group, recently had a photography show at Featherstone. The FARM Institute is dedicated to reconnecting children and the the island community with the culture of agriculture. # # # The FARM Institute - Post Office Box 1868 - Edgartown, MA 02539 - (508) 627-7007
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