ABOUT THE ARTISTS: Amy Franceschini is an artist deeply interested in how humans interact and impact the world around them. An overarching theme in her work is a perceived conflict between humans and nature. She creates websites, installations, and public programs that provide platforms for questioning this divide. She draws inspiration from the improvisation, innovation, and collaboration that emerges from the choreographed farming activities both big and small. In 2004, she co-founded Free Soil, an international collective of artists, activists, and researchers who work together to propose alternatives to the current social, political, and environmental organization of space. Her individual and collaborative work has been exhibited internationally at the Zentrum Kunst Media in Karlsruhe Germany, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the New York Museum of Modern Art, SF MoMA, the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum. She has received numerous awards, including the SF MoMA Seca Award, Artadia Award, Eureka Fellowship, and Creative Capital. She is recently the recipient of a Graham Foundation and Art Matters grant. She received her BFA from San Francisco State University and her MFA from Stanford University. Amy is a visiting faculty in the California College of the Arts graduate program.

Michael Swaine is an inventor and designer working across many mediums; he has collaborated with Futurefarmers since 1997. He is dedicated to working in the community; his "Mending Library" Generosity Project involves him pushing an old-fashioned ice cream cart on wheels with a treadle-operated sewing machine through the streets of San Francisco. He teaches at CCA and is currently working on his MA in Design at UC Berkeley.