VAEG
Visual Arts Experimental Garden
2021- Ongoing
VAEG is an ongoing collaborative endeavor located in front of Comstock Art Facility at Syracuse University. Our goal is to create new opportunities for engaging, learning, resting, building community, and everything in between, adjacent to and in some ways opposing traditional studio facilities, education structures, and university models of dis-entanglement. Current and former members caring for and curating the space include: Zherong Hu, Fatemeh Kazemi, Oksana Kazmina, Xuan Liu, Brady McDougall, Rumpelstiltskin Morgan, Danielle Page, Zelikha Shoja, Angelica Starcovic, and Declan Yert. Additionally, collaborators include canine companions, plants, fauna, and infinite other members of this ecology.
Hello, Earth Day!
April 2022
Official opening of the garden! Overnight event to welcome Earth Day with community and charge the space with positivity going into our first outdoor growing season. Thank you so much to everyone that showed up, enjoyed the food and drinks featuring studio grown ingredients, and are building a new sense of community and collaboration at Syracuse University! Video screening by Brady McDougall. Recipes coming soon.
Radish harvest + Greens
April 2022
It’s time to harvest the radishes and prepare the pickling recipe for them to rest for the next few weeks. Recipe coming soon. Our mixed green are growing faster than expected, and we are so excited to share what we have with our Comart community. So much potential for experimentation!
Studio Growing
Early 2022
Small studio garden with snap peas, mixed greens, radishes, dill, scallions, and ginger.
Outdoor Garden + Group Meeting
Early 2022
After almost a year of applications and approvals, the outdoor garden is here! We had our first group meeting with our lovely canine collaborators to start planning what will be grown, and other programming brainstorming!
