The +FARM Workshop is in its third year of a significantly broader project goal of questioning, envisioning and constructing a model for a 21st century rural farm economy. The workshop seeks to harvest the vitality of the studio environment, that of dynamic reciprocity, to focus on the completion of a week long building assignment that is establishing a measure of research toward a selected topic. +FARM Workshop asks participants to draw on a range of knowledge in materials, building assembly, fabrication, landscape, and environmental conditions to thoughtfully craft a structure that will be used immediately by all participants of the farm. The program dictates that built structures will have programmatic and functional requirement that must be satisfied to ensure both practical and long-term use.
+FARM began in 2011 and has since successfully hosted two summer studios, in addition to several smaller community based workshops.
The rural community of Perrysburg is located near Lake Erie, and is neighbor to the Seneca Indian Reservations in Gowanda and Salamanca Buffalo
Who is +FARM
+FARM members include Kathi and John Glovack, Bob Sturm, Sheung Tang Luk, Sarah and William Haskas.
Our home and studio is made available by generosity of Kathi and John Glovack. We are especially grateful to our host family for sharing both their home and farm to allow this workshop to happen.