Arts Benicia recently received a Creative Corp Capital Region Grant, funded in part by the California Arts Council, Sacramento Office of Arts & Culture, and the City of Sacramento. The grant is focused on the southern quartile of Solano County: Benicia, Vallejo, Fairfield, and Suisun. I have also included Rio Vista in this exhibition. Solano Water Stories is about the history of water, water conservation, and climate change mitigation practices in Solano County. Designed for all ages, this exhibition includes information about historic, indigenous, and current urban, rural and agricultural land and water use as well as ongoing conservation practices. It includes a pop-up reading room, original artworks, personal water stories, a poetry corner, maps, videos, photographs, and additional information gathered from our partner organizations: Sustainable Solano, Solano Resource Conservation District, Solano Land Trust, and the Solano County Water Agency. I also received great support from the Fairfield Suisun Sewer District. It is my intention with this interactive exhibition to facilitate a deeper understanding of the problems facing the upcoming generation and the solutions that may already be partly in place, upon which they can improve. Solano Water Stories is about Solano County water conservation in the face of climate change, community engagement, and hope for a sustainable future. Solano Water Stories will travel to two additional locations in 2024 during the grant period. Click on the links below for partner information and for additional Solano Water Stories content. Artists in the Commanding Officers Quarters Kickoff Exhibition Akiko Suzuki Lawrence Buford Janet Barnes Jean Purnell Mark Brest van Kempen Videos and Partner Links: Sustainable Solano Supporting Community Gardens Elements Of a Food Forest Garden Creating a Drought Resilient Oasis with Soilogical Designing with Nature, an Introduction to Permaculture with Michael Wedgely of Soilogical Solano Resource Conservation District Watershed Explorers Field Trip Creek Biomonitoring Program for High Schools Solano Land Trust Farm to Community Food Program during the Covid Pandemic Patwino Worrtla Kodoi Dihi Open Space Jepson Prairie Vernal Pool Landscape from Bay Nature Magazine Rush Ranch Lynch Canyon King-Swett Ranch Farmers of Solano County Solano County Water Agency Water Efficiency Programs, including:
Fairfield Suisun Sewer District Educational Programs and Public Outreach Resilient and Green Master Plan Fairfield Coastal Cleanup 2023 Casa Education Foundation - California Association Of Sanitation Agencies Scholarship Program Andrea Solis Internship Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation WIND, WATER, LAND directed by John Beck. This film was commissioned by the City of Benicia. Wind, Water, Land. 20-min documentary that goes behind the scenes to chronicle the collaboration of six artists - Brian Giambastiani, Mike Nourot, David Nourot, Nick Nourot, Mike Kendall and David Lindsay - who join together to create Benicia's first eco-sustainable public art work. More Solano Water Stories
RELEVANT BOOK REFERENCE LIST: (I will get around to adding ISBNs but for now these are titles and authors or editors.) Please shop at your local Indie bookseller (Bookshop Benicia and Alibi Bookshop/Vallejo or Bookshop.org instead of the "Big River Company"). Water A Deep Dive of Discovery Mihaly and Cabassa All the Water in the World Lyon and Tillotson Fresh Air, Clean Water Our Right to a Healthy Environment Clendenan and McLaughlin The Cartoon Introduction to Climate Change Klein and Bauman, Ph.D. We are Water Protectors Lindstrom and Goade There's an Opossum in my Backyard Bogue and Todd Is That a Skunk? Bogue and Todd The Charcoal Forest. How a Fire Helps Animals and Plants Peluso What is a River? Vaicenaviciene The Lorax Dr. Seuss California Water 3rd Edition Littleworth and Garner State of Change. Forgotten Landscapes of California Cunningham Gateway to the Inland Coast. The Story of the Carquinez Strait. Cohen Delta Primer. A Field Guide to the California Delta Wolff The Exploration of the Colorado River and its Canyons Powell and Stegner The Land of Little Rain. Austin and Hass Round River. From the Journals of Aldo Leopold Ed. L. Leopold The White Album Didion Seen. True Stories of Marginalized Trailblazers: Rachel Carson Willis, Abrego, and Quigley The Great Thirst. Californians and Water: A History Hundley, Jr. The Dreamt Land. Chasing Water and Dust Across California Arax Water Talks. Empowering Communities to Know, Restore, and Preserve Their Waters. Damon/Goodall Our Fragile Moment Mann The Climate Book Thunberg California Against the Sea. Visions for Our Vanishing Coastline. Xia Not too Late Solnit and Lutunatabua The State of Water Kaufmann Lands of Promise and Despair Beebe and Senkewicz The Anza Trail and the Settling of California Guerrero The Way We Lived. Ed. Margolin Native Ways. California Indian Stories and Memories Eds. Margolin and Montijo Red Indian Road West. Native American Poetry from California. Eds. Schweigman and Day Spring Salmon, Hurry to Me! The Seasons of Native California. Eds. Dubin and Hogeland We are the Land. A History of Native California. Akins and Bauer Tending the Wild Anderson Weaving a California Tradition. A Native American Basket Maker Yamane and Aguilar In Full View. Three Ways of Seeing California Plants Keator, Yamane, and Lewis Gardening with a Wild Heart: Restoring California's Native Landscapes at Home, Lowry Becoming Story: A Journey Among Seasons, Places, Trees, and Ancestors, Sarris Mabel McKay: Weaving the Dream, Sarris Climate Stewardship: Taking Collective Action to Protect California, Merenlender and Buhler PODCASTS: Place and Purpose Talking Under Water Waterloop Words on Water Sea Change Circle of Blue Wildbound Live (video) Walk with Obi and Wade
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