Thursday, December 3, 2015

Visiting Scholar 2!
Fereshtei Toosi

- taught abroad and in multiple schools around America!

- brother came to UIUC for undergrad!
- protests can be constructive not destructive!
- a lot of her work is not based of her directly, but rather is informed by who she is!
- parents grew up in Iran!
- interested in sculptures and images that explain history (absence of history about
middle east)!

- element thats edible (mainly on food)!

- projects!
Garlic and Greens/ Shoebox Lunch!
- collaboration/participatory design!
- multi-media project!
- food culture: diversity of our world!
access into more complicated stories, sense of place, family!
food traditions around the world!
- interaction with the object while listening to the oral histories!
- goal of this piece was to create communal dialogue about heritage!
- access to handicapped!
- art therapy!
- shoebox lunch refers to Jim crow laws!
FCM/the risk exhibit!
- epherial sculptures!
- edible mushrooms!
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Thursday, December 3, 2015

- books about gardening and pickles!

Yock and Yok!
- speculative non-fiction!
- based of a comic book!
- Yock: noodle dish with ketchup flavored broth.!
- the comic book tells many interpretations about where Yock comes from!
may have started with interracial relationships