Healing Plants, People and Art History Exhibition

This multidimensional art project was created to educate, raise awareness, and provoke deep thought on the journey of Healing Plants and People on this Planet. Plants are special biological entities to whom peoples survival are inextricably linked. We regard them as sources of nutritive products and carbon but often do not think of their spiritual and cultural value as recorders of history, healing and resistance on the Earth planet.

Healing Plants, People and History uses multi-dimensional art to tell the stories of 13 plants and their history of healing and resistance in the African diaspora. Beginning with the prehistoric use of plants by our hunter-gatherer ancestors, plants have deeply affected and recorded human journeys on the planet.Multidimensional artist/plant medicine practitioner Yonnette Fleming invites us into the greenhouse gallery to ponder how people around the diaspora have worked with plants for their spiritual and cultural survival. The exhibit will host free multisensory hands on medicine making classes once per month and hold open hours first and third Sundays in November and December for the public.

Principal Multidimensional Artist Yonnette S Fleming
Supporting Visual Artist Lisa Ross
Supporting Graphic Artist Irina Vinnitskaya
Supporting Filmmaker/Documenter Daniel Goodman

@ 2016 – Arts for Resilience – Urban Bush Educator Websites:
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www.bedstuywomensecurity

Supporters
Citizens Committee for NYC
North Star Fund - Community resilience and Alternative institution Building
Hattie Carthan community market