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How a Latina Artist Immortalizes the Efforts of Rural Farmworkers – SFA

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Channel: Eater · 2017 · Howto & Style

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Migrant farm workers have long been a part of the agricultural industry in the United States, and they predominantly come from Latin American countries for seasonal work, such as fruit-picking. In this segment, filmmaker Ava Lowrey profiles an artist that wants honor them in her own way.  

Lina Puerte is a Mixed-Media artist, and her recent installation at Powerhouse in Oxford, Mississippi is called "From Field to Table: Seven Tapestries Honoring Latino Farm Laborers from the American South”. She chose crops found in the South, especially those that require hard manual labor. Using photographs as inspiration, she already had an idea of the scenes and images she wanted to depict in her artwork. Puerte’s method for this series was to use stencils, different materials and paper pulp to reach a piece with a diversity of textures, layers and depth.

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