The Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts will offer an OS Fermentation Series beginning at the end of this month.
Artists Leila Nadir, current Bemis Artist in Residence and Professor at University of Rochester and her partner, Artist Cary Peppermint will run the workshops.
The two work in social sculptures. Nadir says this means they work to create performances and actions where artists and the public come together to explore creativity and to better understand the world around them.
"This project is about taking food, art and creativity as well as the unpredictability of fermentation as well as the unpredictability of public participation and all coming together to have this motivational and inspirational moment where we learn more about the world that we are living in.”
Nadir says the first workshop on February 26th will introduce people to fermentation.
Those attending will be able to sample the artists’ wild fermented edible art including their coffee-banana wine and blueberry-chocolate kombucha.
The next workshop invites the public to make their own custom fermented vegetable concoctions with a tasting party during the last session.