The following is a list of resources that informed our thinking about the project. Evolving over two years and open to suggestions from the public, this list is still by no means exhaustive. You are welcome to offer further suggestions by contacting us here.
Relevant Reading:
Arnstein, Sherry R., “A Ladder of Citizen Participation”
Berry, Wendell, “It All Turns on Affection”, 2012 Jefferson Lecture
Berry, Wendell, The Unsettling of America; Culture & Agriculture
Beuys, Joseph, Volker Harlan (ed.), What is Art?: Conversations with Joseph Beuys
Bourriaud, Nicolas, Relational Aesthetics (excerpts)
Bradley, Will and Esche, Charles, eds., Art and Social Change: A Critical Reader
Bruggemann, Walter, The Prophetic Imagination
Catte, Elizabeth, What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia
Charpentier, Erin and Neel, Travis, eds., Art & Social Practice Workbook
Finkelpearl, Tom, What We Made: Conversations on Art and Social Cooperation
Friere, Paulo, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Grady, Elizabeth M., ed., Future Imperfect: A Blade of Grass
Greene, Maxine, “Public Education and the Public Space”
Helguera, Pablo, Education for Socially Engaged Art: A Materials and Techniques Handbook
Kaprow, Allan, Essays on the Blurring of Art and Life
Kwon, Miwon, One Place After Another: Site Specific Art and Locational Identity
Lacy, Suzanne, Mapping the Terrain: New Genre Public Art
McIntosh, Alistair, Soil and Soul: People Versus Corporate Power
McIntosh, Alistair, Rekindling Community: Connecting People, Environment, & Spirituality
Montgomery, David R., Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations
Montgomery, David R., Growing a Revolution: Bringing Our Soil Back to Life
Reiman, Joshua, “Context as Material: A Conversation with Jon Rubin.” Sculpture Magazine 35.2 (2016)
Thompson, Nato (ed.), Living as Form: Socially Engaged Art from 1991-2011
Sobel, David, Place-Based Education: Connecting Classrooms and Communities
Stoll, Steven, Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia
Related Projects:
Aaron Gach, The Center for Tactical Magic
Abounaddara Syrian Film Collective
Brad and Amanda Kik, Crosshatch
Brian Harnetty, Fracked Forest Listening Rooms
David Burns, Matias Viegener, and Austin Young, Fallen Fruit
Frances Rose and Acorn, Community Supported Kitchen (CSK)
Frances Whitehead, Fruit Futures Initiative Gary
Jeanne van Heeswijk, Philadelphia Assembled
Jeff Weiss, Prometheus Project
Margaretha Haughwout, Trees of Tomorrow/Guerilla Grafters
Meredith Knapp Brickell, The House Life Project
Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Touch Sanitation Performance
Pablo Helguera, Librería Donceles
Paul Chan, Waiting for Godot in New Orleans
Pedro Reyes, Palas por Pistolas
Rhodessa Jones, The Medea Project: Theater for Incarcerated Women
Risë Wilson (founder), The Laundromat Project
Simone Leigh, Free People’s Medical Clinic
Salome Asega and Ayodamola Tanimowo Okunseinde, Iyapo Repository
Susan Pepper, Music that Sustains
Suzanne Lacy, Between the Door and the Street
Suzanne Lacy, De tu Puño y Letra
Theaster Gates, Dorchester Projects
Organizations (etc.):
Bell Hooks Institute (Berea College)
The Affrilachian Poets (Frank X Walker)
Appalachian Regional Commission
Bethel Historical Society & Museum
Clermont County Soil and Water Conservation District
Community Saving Bank – Bethel
Contemporary Arts Center – Cincinnati
Grow Appalachia (Berea College)
Mount Vernon Nazarene University
The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center
Ohio State University’s InFACT
Parsons School of Design (The New School)
The Scripps Howard Center for Civic Engagement
The Vera List Center for Art and Politics (The New School)
Videos and Film:
Austin Allen, Claiming Open Spaces
Joseph Beuys, “Art for me is the science of Freedom”
Julianne Donofrio, Pieced Together
Look and See: A Portrait of Wendell Berry (now available on Netflix)
The New Museum, “Whose Terms? A Glossary for Social Practice” (videos)
Wendell Berry, Wes Jackson, and Mary Berry at the 36th Annual E. F. Schumacher Lectures
SOIL SERIES: A Social Drawing 