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Collection includes materials from "CAFO Culture: Visualizing Factory Farming in Virginia," an exhibition sponsored by the Mapping Virginia CAFO's Project (Commonwealth Center for Energy and Environment) at William & Mary from October 16-30, 2015.
From exhibit description: "This interdisciplinary exhibition explores various techniques in the arts and sciences for visualizing environmental impacts of factory farming in Virginia today, specifically concerning concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) - also known as factory farms - which adversely affect the Chesapeake Bay and other ecosystems. The exhibition is part of a larger project on Mapping Virginia CAFO's at the College of William & Mary that seeks to open a conversation across disciplines about environmental problems related to factory farming in Virginia and assess different strategies of visual representation in order to understand how to disseminate information about those problems to the public."
The collection is arranged into three series: Promotional materials, Exhibit panels, and Artwork. The Artwork is arranged by artist's last name and includes photographs, maps mixed media pieces. Exhibit labels are also located in each artist folder.
Exhibit was funded as part of an interdisiplinary grant project through William & Mary's Commonwealth Center for Energy and Environment. It was curated by William & Mary students and Professor Alan Braddock, Wark Associate Professor of Art History and American Studies. Artwork created by William & Mary students and non-student Virginia artists.
Department of Art and Art History, William & Mary
8 Posters advertising the exhibition and lectures offered in conjunction with the Mapping Virginia CAFOs project
Exhibit labels for exhibition's individual and group artwork. Labels include artist statements and artwork description.
Large introduction panel for exhibit, titled "Mapping Virginia's Concentrated Animal Feeling Operations [CAFO]." Includes explanatory definitions, farming data, areial views of livestock operations in Virginia, and map of Virginia's CAFOs.
Map with satellite photography and nutrient pollution data
Digital collage that uses the Greek myth of Pandora to examine "the false promises of modern American animal agriculture." The chicken represents the poultry CAFO industry and the economic forces of CAFO production.
J.D. Fowler is a artist and local food advocate from central Virginia.
Two digital color photographs of the Smithfield Processing Plant
Three aerial photographs of the Murphy Brown Factory Farms
Three color photographs of butchered meat (9 x 9 inches each)
Four color photographs of flag, water, no parking sign, man reclining against blue sky background (12 x 18 inches each)
Three color photographs depicting Popes Creek, where George Washington lived; a farmer dispensing liquid manure on their fields; and view of industrial farm from window.
Mixed media piece, in pink, green, blue, and white, depicting a small child with floatie by the edge of an animal waste lagoon.
Etching of a cartoon comic strip depicting what happens in CAFO facilities.
Two photographs, not attributed to an artist. A color photograph depicts a corn field in the snow, and the other is a black and white photograph of a wooden barn.