Opening Reception: Thursday, September 22 from 4-6pm

Feral is an interdisciplinary project by Oakland artist Alex Arzt that explores human-plant relationships, deep mapping, and the physical and emotional relationship to land in a time of ongoing ecological destruction. The project stems out of Arzt's long term engagement with the feral cabbages of California’s coast both in the wild and in her rented lot in East Oakland. With the cabbage's collaboration, she is creating a hybrid feral cabbage that can potentially adapt to California's rapidly changing climate and urban soil contamination. Feral cabbages offer a model for survival through discovering their ecological niches, forming cooperative communities, and creating multispecies partnerships, including with humans. As a potential source of resilient, nutritious food and as connectors to our plant communities, the feral cabbages can both feed us and teach us.

Funding has been made possible by The Puffin Foundation.