The Temescal Merchants Association and artists Ted Purves and Susanne Cockrell are collaborating to create The Temescal Amity Works?facilitating and documenting the exchange of backyard produce, conversation, and collective biography within the Temescal Neighborhood in Oakland. For the course of the project, the artists are maintaining a storefront on Telegraph Avenue, managing a ?Backyard Crop Sharing Cart?; producing neighborhood exhibitions and gatherings; and creating a series of printed materials.
