About the Artists
Dan Feinberg
Paint Lick, Kentucky
Dr. Mary Parr
Berea, Kentucky
Although the Radish Project came to Winterthur as a result of conversations that began while Dan Feinberg was in residence as a Winterthur Maker-Creator Fellow, this project is intensely collaborative. Planting beds are located in and beyond Delaware, acting as remote sites of a unified project to bring attention to environmental challenges such as over paving, flooding, drainage, and water quality. Radishes planted in patterns break pavement that is no longer needed and create better drainage.
Read more about the Radish Project at Winterthur.
The Radish Project is currently on view in the Empire Parlor. Additional installations related to the radish project will be on display in the Galleries Reception Area and in the Galleries from June 8, 2024 to January 5, 2025.
Artist Statement
Repeating patterns, like those found in wallpapers, textiles, and other objects, inspired the planting designs and the radish “avatars” created in the Radish Project and seen in the Winterthur house, Galleries Reception area, and here in the Galleries. Using familiar things like wallpaper can help viewers connect to the environmental messages of the project that can otherwise seem distant or hidden from sight.
Planting Together
Below is a list of people whose labor has constituted the project’s development and ongoing life. There are others who contributed along the way who wish to remain anonymous or whose names we were unable to record.
Ali Alberta, Janee Amig, Prince Aminu, Marisa Angel, Emily Bach, Sol Baumgartner, Emily Beeber, Sophie Bell, Julia Bouwkamp, Benét Burton, Julian Clark, Kim Collison, Christian Cooter, Amy Curry, Catherine Cyr, Catharine Dann Roeber, Ted Davis, Meghan Doherty, Brian Eisenhauer, MJ Embree, Avery Fair, Dan Feinberg, Kelly Fu, Robert Garland, Janea Garner, Jena Gilbert-Merrill, Irwin Goldman, Nicholas Goodwin, David Govatski, Phil Griffiths, Steve Groff, Thomas Guiler, Collin Hadsell, Julia Hamer-Light, John Hayes, Scott Heggen, Autumn Heil, Ann Hewitt, Sylvia Hickman, Inna Horbovtsova, Margaret Hughes, James Hutzenbiler, Alexandra Izzard, Elaheh Jamal, i Rachael Kane, Clint King, Dasha Likhacheva, Alex Lopez Guzman, Austin Losada, Haritha Malladi, Chris Malone, Lisa Mangin, Molly Mapstone, Chase Markee, Madeline Markert, Megan Markert, Kit Martin, Daisy Martin, Cody Mitchell, River Moon, Aaron Morris, Concepta Njolima, Kara Norris, Emmy Norris, Quinn Norris, Sam O’Hara, Laura Ochoa Rincon, Andrew Oles, Jocelyn Paradis, Mary Parr, Moriah Peña, Rob Plankinton, Isaac Renner, Katrina Reynolds, Riley Richards, Kimberly Ritchie, Katie Roach, Elizabeth Roeber, Naomi Sabotnick, John Salata, Lenny Santiago-Bautista, Devin Santos, Betsy Schley, Ethan Snyder, Chloe Soliday, Richard Stout, Chris Strand, Naomi Subotnick, Kendall Sullivan, Emi Torres-Vera, Heidi Underbakke, Natasha Vadas, Amy Villamagna, Nathan Wiley, Meg Wilson, Megan Wolverton, Students in Conversations in Sustainability at Plymouth State, Fall 2022, Winterthur Garden staff and Natural Lands staff.