Month: September 2016

What is The Fargo Project?

Through The Fargo Project, local government uses a participatory process to help community members identify needs and the response to these needs. With water as the vehicle for connecting people to the land, this approach intentionally encourages a collective creative response. The World Garden Commons at Rabanus Park is the first installation of The Fargo…
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September 28, 2016 0

Community Table Serves 300

The Community Table held in conjunction with Welcoming Week activities across the cities of Fargo, Moorhead and West Fargo was a profound experience for many. Table hosts greeted attendees and welcomed families to sit with new friends and greet old ones. The vegetarian meal, much of which was harvested from Growing Together gardens, included an…
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September 28, 2016 0

What is a Stormwater Basin?

Our human influence through buildings, homes, lawns, parking lots, and roads have compounding effect on the landscape. Often our human effect on the landscape, and resulting infrastructure needed to mitigate stormwater – specifically stormwater basins are largely invisible or unnoticed by the everyday person, yet our property and roads are protected by this infrastructure. This…
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September 15, 2016 0

Exhibition Focuses on the Work of The Fargo Project’s Lead Artist Jackie Brookner

Bronx, NY, 2016—Wave Hill is pleased to present Jackie Brookner: Of Nature, the first retrospective tracing the expansive work of Jackie Brookner (1945–2015), an artist who was deeply engaged with the environment. Brookner’s groundbreaking, remediative sculptural environments were designed as ecological filters to cleanse gray water, urban storm water or agricultural runoff. Jackie Brookner: Of…
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September 13, 2016 0