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Natalie Jeremijenko is Associate Professor of Visual Art at New York University and directs the xdesign Environmental Health Clinic . Previously she was on the Visual Arts faculty at UCSD, and Faculty of Engineering at Yale. Her work was included in the 2006 Whitney Biennial of American Art (also in 1997) and the Cooper Hewit Smithsonian Design Triennial 2006-7. She has a permanently installed Model Urban Development on the roof of Postmasters Gallery in Chelsea, featuring seven residential housing developments, a concert hall and other public amenities; it is powered by human food waste and re-imagines our relationship to nonhuman organisms. Her work is described as experimental design, hence xDesign, as it explores the opportunity new technologies present for nonviolent social change. The Environmental Health Clinic develops and prescribes locally optimized and often playful strategies to effect remediation of environmental systems and coordinates diverse projects to effect material change.

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Barron Bixler
Food Justice virtual gallery | www.barronbixler.com

Barron Bixler's work chronicles the impact of rapid settlement and development in the American West. His photographs address the environmental complexities that attend such development, focusing on the margins between urban, suburban, industrial and rural spaces.

Recent projects in this vein include "A New Pastoral: Views of the San Joaquin Valley"; "Industrial Materials: Mining and Refining California"; and "The West, Revisited: Views of Central Colorado." In his latest project, “L.A. Environs,” Bixler maps austere landscapes located along the periphery of the Los Angeles Basin.

In 2008, Bixler began work on two long range documentary projects in South America; the first looks at life in a traditional Brazilian fishing village; the second examines mining practices in the mineral-rich Atacama desert of northern Chile.

A self-taught photographer, Bixler holds an MA in English from the University of Victoria.

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Mia Brownell
Food Justice virtual gallery | www.miabrownell.com

Mia Brownell was born in Chicago, Illinois to a sculptor and biophysicist. She has had solo exhibitions in major American cities including New York, Boston and Washington, DC. Mia’s paintings are in several private, corporate and public art collections including Wellington Management, Fidelity Investments and the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, DC. A graduate of Carnegie Mellon and State University of New York, Buffalo, Mia has been teaching painting and drawing since 1993. She has held a tenured faculty position at Southern Connecticut State University in New Haven since 2003. She was recently awarded the Southern Connecticut State University's Faculty Scholar Award and promoted to Full Professor.

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Clare Carver
Food Justice virtual gallery | www.clarecarver.com | www.bigtablefarm.com

Painter Clare Carver lives on a 110 year-old homestead in Oregon’s Willamette Valley. Her subject matter is garnered from the rural surroundings at Big Table Farm, which she runs with her husband Brian Marcy. Clare has exhibited throughout the Bay Area, the Northwest and Australia including solo shows in San Francisco, Napa and Sonoma. She studied on the East Coast at Tyler School of Art and has traveled extensively in Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia. Her life and work are now integrally linked to rural life—raising cattle, goats and chickens, producing Big Table Farm Wine and training draft horses. She captures these events with a rich and immediate style, giving her work a signature depth of color.

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Food Justice virtual gallery | gayeton.com |
www.rumplefarm.com | lexiconofsustainability.com

Douglas Gayeton is a Petaluma, CA based filmmaker, photographer and writer. His company, Rumplefarm, creates award-winning work at the boundaries of traditional and converging media for such varied clients as MTV, Sony, National Geographic, Napster and PBS. His images are held in museum and private collections and have been featured in numerous print and online media, including Time Magazine, Edible and Meat Paper. He is also the author of the recently published SLOW: Life in a Tuscan Town (Welcome Books, 2009).  He is currently working on a new transmedia project, the Lexicon of Sustainability.

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Food Justice virtual gallery | www.mindystricke.com

Mindy Stricke is a photographer and community artist. Her work involves multi-disciplinary collaborations and installations that challenge traditional boundaries between artists and non-artists, between artists and audience and between process and product.  In 2009, she launched Greetings From Motherland, an evolving community art project that gathers women together to make art about motherhood through workshops, participatory events and a web site. Her portraits and other work have been exhibited throughout North America and are featured in international publications including the New York Times, Time Magazine, Newsweek and Voce and in the Smithsonian Institute Photography Initiative online exhibit Click! Photography Changes Everything. Originally from New York, she now lives in Toronto with her husband David and daughter Noa.

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