Maple syrup anyone? The Maple Festival in Geagua County, OH
This weekend I finally made it out to the Maple Festival out in Geagua County, a 4 day festival which celebrates maple syrup. The festival has been held in Chardon, OH since 1926. This year due to the unusually warm temperatures, the maple syrup production was stopped earlier than expected and also reduced production. You couldn’t tell from the festival [...]
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Menu for the Future: a 6 Week Community Discussion Course about our Food
A couple of months ago I read about a new community discussion course called Menu for the Future that explores our food system and agricultural practices. The groups that were forming in my area did not work with my schedule, but I am planning to join one of the groups that are coming up this summer. The discussion groups use [...]
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Kbaumlier’s Food Images to be Shown on Billboard in Detroit, MI
Today I just submitted 45 images to the Digital Billboard Art Project, a project where artists can submit images to be displayed on a public digital billboard. My images will be shown from May 28 – June 24, 2012 in the Detroit Metro area (Macomb County), MI. I submitted slides about food – and made a series of images where [...]
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Food Font @ CIA on Thursday April 26th in the Student Lounge
On Thursday April 26th is the first in-person activity related to my new project Food Font. Anyone who is eating lunch in the student lounge at school will be invited to participate. The plan is to have interested students, faculty and staff to work on making 2 CIA (Cleveland Institute of Art) food alphabets. People will be invited to make [...]
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Attract, Engage, and Extend : Designer Christine Enderby
Today I attended a lecture by Christine Enderby, the Creative Director of Ziba that was part of the Design Matters Lecture Series at the Weatherhead School of Management. Enderby works at the design company Ziba, which is a globally respected design and innovation company based in Portland. At the lecture she shared some examples of guiding multidisciplinary teams. Her clients [...]
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