Capital City Farm is set to host an Open House and Live Painting event on Saturday, November 7, 2015 from 1 to 5 p.m. and Sunday, November 8, 2015 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. The farm is located on Escher Road in Trenton, next to the Trention Area Soup Kitchen.
Visit Capital City Farm to learn about the project’s history, remediation and vision of providing fresh produce, education, employment opportunities and job training to residents and social service agencies. See the garden and take home some of the first harvest, and provide input to community organizers.
Watch artists from the Trenton Community A-Team and local mural artists Jon Conner and Lori Johanssen paint a collaborative mural on a storage shed on-site. Visitors are welcome to pick up a paintbrush and join in the fun.
Participating artists include: the A-Team artists’ cooperative formed by self-taught artists who paint together at the Trenton Area Soup Kitchen. Since inception in 2001, the A-Team has generated hundreds of works of art and exhibited in more than 100 shows at galleries and institutions statewide.
Jon “LANK” Conner is a Hamilton-based mural artist who studied at the Pacific Northwest College of Art and is a member of the SAGE Collective and Albus Cavus.
Lori Johansson received a bachelor’s degree in Studio Art from Goucher College, studying art for a semester abroad in Siena, Italy, through the Buffalo State University program. She taught adult art classes at the St. Neris Phillips Community Center in East Greenville, Pennsylvania, is the host of Art Chill Night weekly at Championship Bar and has participated in art events with Artworks and S.A.G.E. Coalition.
