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12/5/2012

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Visitors contributing to the Vision Wall during Portraits on Portland. © 2012 Hannah Minzloff
Since the last contribution to the blog Hannah and I have been busy with other projects, which allowed us to gain experience and test the audience waters for some of the approaches we had in mind for the various presentations of Ribbon to the Future.

Hannah developed the notion of “community engagement” as stated in our project summary with Portraits on Portland, the main street in Downtown Dartmouth where gentrification is becoming a fact of life.  She photographed shopkeepers, small business owners and characters of this street for the exhibition she held in September at Alderney Landing in Dartmouth.  She also organized community conversations around a wall-sized, handmade map of the street hanging with the photography in the gallery. It contained all its interesting detail and annotated perceptions of the future of this street as explored in these conversations. The map became an integral part of the show for its duration.

Meanwhile I experimented with the making of a book on a project I completed with a solo show at ViewPoint Gallery in Halifax: Come from Away, Artists of Minas Basin (2004).  I wanted to know about costs, time to print, necessary quality for best printing of colour and black and white photography.  I first produced a hard copy book with a wrap cover and uncoated fibre paper, which I thought to be best for printing the black and white photography.  I printed a limited, numbered edition of 50 which was well received but could not be commercially successful because of the small local audience and the high cost ($52).  I then experimented with a soft cover edition and found that combined with coated matte paper this delivered good results for the printing the photographs.  I had editorial help from author Susan Haley who taught me that putting a photographic show between two covers does not make a book. You need some kind of story line for that.  It took me quite a while to think one up but I believe I succeeded thanks to her encouragement.  With a run of about 20 copies the unit price was $26 including tax and shipping.

The experience over the last 6 months took us away from field work but it was essential for the longer term success of the project as we are in a much better position to assess the public impact as well as costs of the approaches we can take in presenting the results of the Ribbon to the Future project.

Dick
December 2012

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A scrumptious Saturday morning

3/28/2012

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Kelly Marie Redcliffe
Kelly Marie Redcliffe is the Wolfville Farmer's Market manager.  She has been the backbone of this weekly gathering of food producers, crafts people and eaters of good food since 2001, building the health and vibrancy of the community through sustainable partnerships.  Kelly likes to make things happen, she feels the move to the deWolfe building has given her a real foundation to build on with a sense of permanence.  

Check out the market website to find your favourite vendors, community events and lots more. I'm heading over there for the lunchtime yoga today, maybe I'll see you there?

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First Post!

7/22/2011

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I'm very excited about Ribbon to the Future - and even more so now that I can share the website, blog, twitter, the google profile and a gorgeous promo piece with you, not to mention the photographs!

In this blog we will write about work-in-progress.  Trips made to the Valley, people we have met, photos we are working on.  We have already invited some fantastic people to contribute to Ribbon to the Future: Bob Maher, senior researcher in Geomatics at the Nova Scotia Community College and Meredith Dault, a very smart Canadian writer.

Do you live in the Annapolis Valley?  I'd like to hear from you - what are you doing that's innovative in the way of sustainable food production, transportation, energy, community and youth engagement?

Hannah
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    Hannah Minzloff Dick Groot

    As photo-based artists, we are visualizing the physical transformations of the land and its use and looking at the future of the Annapolis Valley through innovative initiatives in sustainable food production, transportation, energy, community and youth engagement.

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