The Mother Plant
Annie Kyla Bennett
Open Thursday - Sunday 11am-5pm, with special activation Saturday at 4pm.
The Mother Plant is an interactive art exhibit and installation celebrating phytoremediation and the potentials for regenerative land stewardship and renewable resource management that collaborating with the Cannabis plant can afford humanity. This installation is an exploded presentation of The Mother Plant art book, which is the culmination of almost 10 years of research, writing, and artmaking. The show includes over 40 artworks and 40 short creative writing pieces that synthesize the research that went into each art piece. The Mother Plant touches on Cannabis's contributions to humanity's relationship with Nature throughout time, from food and medicine to ritual and inspiration, bio fuel and plastics to concrete and lumber alternatives, etc. Some of the paintings are on hemp canvas or hemp paper, some are painted with hempseed oil.
The Mother Plant is an interactive art exhibit and installation celebrating phytoremediation and the potentials for regenerative land stewardship and renewable resource management that collaborating with the Cannabis plant can afford humanity. This installation is an exploded presentation of The Mother Plant art book, which is the culmination of almost 10 years of research, writing, and artmaking. The show includes over 40 artworks and 40 short creative writing pieces that synthesize the research that went into each art piece. The Mother Plant touches on Cannabis's contributions to humanity's relationship with Nature throughout time, from food and medicine to ritual and inspiration, bio fuel and plastics to concrete and lumber alternatives, etc. Some of the paintings are on hemp canvas or hemp paper, some are painted with hempseed oil.
Installation / Visual Art
Immersive, Interactive, LGBTQIA+, Multimedia, Neurodiversity-led, Painting, Science & Technology, Other
Annie is painting stories of hope, centering plants and humanity’s relationship with Nature. Their current focus is on remediation and restorative justice: Earthcare as selfcare.
Annie is an oil painter and natural materials artist, dabbling in theatre to feed their soul. They are the Creative Director of Art Garden AVL, a queer-artist-owned mutualist arts collaborative committed to inclusive representation in the River Arts District.
Annie grew up in rural Alaska in a family of artists. They have been living in Asheville since 2007, and spent 13 years on tour live painting before opening Art Garden in 2019.
Sensitive Content: Audience will be standing throughout, Audience required to walk or move around during the performance, Nudity
