About this project
I need $1,500 to fund my trip to the Noah's Ark of apple orchards to sculpt some of the 2500 endangered varieties grown there. The Plant Genetics Resource Unit is in Geneva, New York.* Thanks to apple curator Philip Forsline, there are over 2500 varieties of apples from all over the world growing there, in part to help diversify and possibly save the more common apples we know. I'm a sculptor. I love plants, fruits and endangered trees. This is my heaven, this orchard. Harvest is September to early October. I'd love your help to get there.
*I learned about the Plant Genetics Resource Unit in the book The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan, whose writing about apples and his subversive take on our place in nature inspired this project.
**Clonal apples at USDA Geneva site Photo credit: Keith Weller
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Limited edition 8 x 11 photograph of an apple from this strange orchard
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Limited edition porcelain cast of one of the apples from the orchard.
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Limited edition porcelain cast of one of the apples from the orchard.
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Jessica Rath lives in Los Angeles with her 2 year old daughter and chef hubby. She has been exhibiting her sculptures and installations for over 18 years in Los Angeles, most recently as solo projects at Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles and Torrance Art Museum, Torrance. She has also been included in group shows at Pepperdine University, Malibu; Mak Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles; and Kellogg Gallery, California State Polytechnique University, Pomona. Rath, who graduated with an MFA from California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California in 1996, has received a Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Metrolab Commission Grant, the Bridge Residency Award from Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA and two Durfee Foundation grants. Her work is in the collections of the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Los Angeles and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Los Angeles. www.jessicarath.com
