An Illuminated Feminist Seed Bank is a publication that tells the story of Seeds InService, a unique Chicago garden project by Maggie Puckett and Melissa H. Potter where plant fibers are cultivated for art works, research projects, and public interventions. In 2019, it was placed in the Global Seed Vault mountain art collection in Svalbard, Norway.
Since 2016, Seeds InService has combined feminist and ecological concerns with the art of hand papermaking. This book serves as both a scholarly and poetic reflection on hand craft and social practice in uncertain cultural landscapes and blends critical writings, research, project documentation and original artworks. It offers inspiration as well as an informational guide for you to start your own seed revolution. It also promotes Chicago’s history in craft activism—a feminist tale that weaves back to the Jane Addams Hull-House and the Columbia College Chicago Center for Book & Paper.
Published February 22, 2019
152 pages
4 Color
8.27 × 11.69 inches
This publication is part of the exhibition, In the Circle of Melissa Potter, on view October 26 - December 6, 2025 in the Riverside Arts Center’s Freeark Gallery and Sculpture Garden. For information on this exhibition, click this link.
An Illuminated Feminist Seed Bank is a publication that tells the story of Seeds InService, a unique Chicago garden project by Maggie Puckett and Melissa H. Potter where plant fibers are cultivated for art works, research projects, and public interventions. In 2019, it was placed in the Global Seed Vault mountain art collection in Svalbard, Norway.
Since 2016, Seeds InService has combined feminist and ecological concerns with the art of hand papermaking. This book serves as both a scholarly and poetic reflection on hand craft and social practice in uncertain cultural landscapes and blends critical writings, research, project documentation and original artworks. It offers inspiration as well as an informational guide for you to start your own seed revolution. It also promotes Chicago’s history in craft activism—a feminist tale that weaves back to the Jane Addams Hull-House and the Columbia College Chicago Center for Book & Paper.
Published February 22, 2019
152 pages
4 Color
8.27 × 11.69 inches
This publication is part of the exhibition, In the Circle of Melissa Potter, on view October 26 - December 6, 2025 in the Riverside Arts Center’s Freeark Gallery and Sculpture Garden. For information on this exhibition, click this link.
