In keeping with the spirit of Robert Rauschenberg’s environmental advocacy and to mark the conclusion of the exhibition Global Matters: Rauschenberg Print Media 1968-1975, graduate students in Associate Professor Richard Leson’s ARTHIST 704: Introduction to Art Museum Studies II, the department’s biennial colloquium on Art Museum Studies, visited Growing Power in west Milwaukee.  The seminar is grateful to Growing Power Director Karen Parker for facilitating the visit.

“Growing Power is a national nonprofit organization and land trust supporting people from diverse backgrounds, and the environments in which they live, by helping to provide equal access to healthy, high-quality, safe and affordable food for people in all communities. Growing Power implements this mission by providing hands-on training, on-the-ground demonstration, outreach and technical assistance through the development of Community Food Systems that help people grow, process, market and distribute food in a sustainable manner.”