Printmaking work featured on Mid-American Print Council site!

   

http://130.101.145.81/2009_Salon/Salon2009.html

at the bottom of the page, open the drop down menu and scroll until you find "Kerry Shaffner"

Check out another project of mine: handmade screenprinted mini-notebooks for sale on etsy! These notebooks are filled with recycled paper. The cover images are designs that I screenprinted and hand colored. These were created as part of my Print Topics class where we were asked to design, create, market and sell an "art multiple." 

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=25628654

This is the 3rd video in the "eat.garden.local:athens" series featuring the interview with Lindsey Seigrist.

This is the 2nd video in the series "eat.garden.local:athens" featuring the interview with Cait Nolan.

Here is the first video in the series "eat.garden.local:athens" featuring Darcy Shaffner.

These past few weeks have been crazy! I returned to my sister's garden to show the progress her garden has made and tack it on to the end of her video. I also filmed and interviewed her roommate, Lindsey Seigrist, who grew up on a farm and has been gardening for almost her whole life.

I also reshot some of Cait's interview because the wind was a little too loud and overpowering in the original footage. I hope to get both Darcy's and Cait's videos finished this week so I can post them!

I'm hoping to visit the Farmer's Market this Saturday...hopefully it won't be too busy to get to talk to some people.

My official website is coming along as well. I'm finalizing my artist statement and getting the pages all in order. Hope to launch it soon!

Call to all gardeners!

To help make this site be informational and interactive, I want you to send in your pictures, tips, and experiences when it comes to your garden or eating locally. Also, feel free to comment, agree, disagree or just respond to any of the posts I make on here. This project is based on community so I need your input!

Today I got pretty close to finishing my second video which contains footage at the Athens community gardens. Using Final Cut is getting easier but it's still a process. I definitely need to work on the sound because Cait's interview is almost indecipherable over the wind's howl.

I'm doing basic research on local food and gardening and am thinking of doing a vocab list for those of us who don't know a lot about the subject matter. Today's word is:


Food Miles


"Food Miles" refer to the distance that your food has been transported between its source farm and where you buy it. Food miles are one measure of the amount of energy used to transport your food and the consequent pollutants released by that transport. Estimates vary but transport may account for 20% or more of the total energy use associated with the provision of a given food item. As such, Food Miles are a relatively simple statistic that can be used to demonstrate the ecological importance of local foods.

--from revivevictorygarden.org

Check out this site on modern victory gardens!
This site talks about cooking, gardening, and eating locally! Hen & Harvest