BEYOND THE PLOT:
RESISTANCE AGAINST
THE DELINITAITON
OF LAND AND PRACTICE
IN AGRICULTURE
APRIL 13-18, 2026
EXPERIMENTAL GALLERY
OLIVE TJADEN HALL
CORNELL UNIVERSITY
April 13-17
8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Exhibition
April 13,
5:00-7:00 PM
Panel DiscussionApril 15,
5:00-7:00 PM
Reading & Reception April 18
2:00-3:00 PM
Farm & Mural Visit
EXHIBITION
EXPERIMENTAL GALLERY - OLIVE TJADEN HALL
APRIL 13-18, 2026
Information coming soon.
↓ Next PANEL DISCUSSION
APRIL 13 5:00-7:00PM
COLONIAL LEGACIES IN ART AND AGRICULTURE
Information coming soon.
Courtesy of Silvia BottinelliCourtesy of Garrett Graddy-Lovelace
Silvia Bottinelli (PhD University of Pisa) is Senior Lecturer in the Visual and Material Studies Department, School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University. Dr. Bottinelli's expertise focuses on food and ecocriticism in contemporary art, as well as 20th and 21st century Italian Art. She recently published the single-authored books Artists and the Practice of Agriculture. Politics and Aesthetics of Food Sovereignty in Art since 1960 (Routledge 2024) and Double-Edged Comforts: Domestic Life in Modern Italian Art and Visual Culture (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2021). Garrett Graddy-Lovelace researches and teaches agricultural policy and agrarian geography. Her work focuses on domestic and international contexts and impacts of US food and farm policy--from critical analysis of commodity and conservation programs to the geopolitical ecologies of food aid and hunger, from farmlabor to intellectual property regimes. Drawing on histories of anti/colonialism and geographies of de/coloniality, she studies crop diversity conservation, food/data/land sovereignty, and the return of traditional ecological knowledge. This includes community-based research-action with grassroots groups on the Farm Bill (see disparitytoparity.org project and Pointing the Farm Bill toward Racial Justice project).
↓ Next READING SESSION AND RECEPTION
APRIL 15, 5:00-7:00 PM
Information coming soon.
↓ Next FARM & MURAL VISIT
WEST HAVEN FARM
April 18, 2:00-3:00 PM
On Saturday April 18, Lorena Mendoza and Carlos Aguilera will give a tour of their farm and present the mural covering their farmhouse.
Location:
27 Rachel Carson Way, 27 Rachel Carson Way, Ithaca, NY
To find out more about their farm visit:www.westhavenfarm.net
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BEYOND THE PLOT
This project was genereously supported by the Cornell College of Architecture, Art, and
Planning’s Engagement Impact Grant, Cornell Council for the Arts, The Institute for Comparative Modernities and Rural Humanities Grant.
For more information:
Carla Rangel Garcia
www.carlarangelgarcia.com
cr647@cornell.edu