Sarah Bryant is HPL&rsquo\;s 2027 Southern Voices Artist. This exhibition includes an artist talk on February 18th t hat begins at 5:30 pm in The Library Theatre and is followed by the recept ion.
\n\nSarah B ryant produces artist books and prints under the name Big Jump Press. Her work can be found in dozens of collections\, including The Yale Arts L ibrary\, The Library of Congress\, The New York Public Library\, and The D arling Bio-medical Library at UCLA. She is currently an Assistant Professo r for the MFA Book Arts Program in the School of Library and Information S tudies at The University of Alabama.
\nThe exhibition will include w orks from Small Patches of Land\, an artist book pro ject and collaboration between Sarah Bryant and Katie Baldwin. \;
\ nThe book explores a pair \;of \;intertwining narratives from t wo women-owned farms in Alabama\, connected by the act \;of \;savi ng seeds. Jean Mills and her partner Carol Eichelberger founded the first community-supported agriculture program in Alabama in the mid-90s\, and Ma rgaret Ann Snow founded Snow&rsquo\;s Bend\, an organic farm in Tuscaloosa \, in 2004. Soon after Jean and Carol started their farm\, they were given heirloom collard seeds by a neighbor. This is how seeds move: from hand t o hand. Jean and Carol grew out the seeds\, eventually \;offering Alab ama Blue Collards as a crop and making the seeds available through The Sou thern Exposure Seed Exchange. Thirty years later\, Margaret Ann Snow order ed those same collard seeds from the same catalog when she herself decided that she wanted to shepherd a crop from seed to seed.
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