We are thrilled to welcome our newest artist-in-residence, Lucia Fabio. Over the course of a year at Art in the Park, Lucia will build and tend a garden that emphasizes ancestral knowledge of seed collection, while collecting oral histories pertaining to seeds and growing cycles.
Opening: Saturday, November 1st, 2–5 PM
Holding Seeds
November 1, 2025–November 1, 2026
Opening Saturday, November 1st from 2-5pm
Over the course of a year at Art in the Park, Lucia Fabio will build and tend a garden that emphasizes ancestral knowledge of seed collection, while collecting oral histories pertaining to seeds and growing cycles. Fabio’s parents are immigrants from Longi, a small mountain village in Sicily, where generations of her family have lived in close relationship to the land. By focusing on germinating her late mother’s seeds, Fabio will explore her family’s ancestral growing practices.
The residency will be dictated by the lunar planting calendar—a traditional and ancient agricultural guide based on the phases of the moon used by many cultures as a natural timekeeping method. Programming will include garden days, seed distributions, workshops, conversations, and native habitat plantings.
This residency was inspired by the loving memory of Giovanna Fabio, Irma Goetz, Bertha Sosa and all mothers who have left this realm. We tend to and nurture seeds for the next generation in honor of mothers and everyone who came before.
Lucia Fabio is an artist, curator and researcher. She tends to work collectively and has curated exhibitions at REDCAT Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Heritage Square Museum, and ONE Archives at the USC Library. Fabio’s practice as a garden volunteer and educator had led her to produce programming that utilizes her knowledge of plants- knowledge gleaned from her Sicilian family who have been farmers for generations. She creates phenomenological experiences for the viewer: grounding them in their bodies while taking note of their senses as they realize a greater connectivity to their environment and others.
Image Caption: Seeds collected by Giovanna Fabio in various containers with ceramics by Lucia Fabio in an outdoor setting.