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The alchemist: Meet BRIC President Wes Jackson
By Brian Braiker
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Ask most Brooklynites if they know much about the arts organization BRIC, they might be able to tell you that it’s the group behind the immensely popular Celebrate Brooklyn! concerts in Prospect Park, about to enter its 45th year in
But BRIC Arts Media is of course much more than that. It is, as its name suggests, an arts and media institution anchored in Downtown Brooklyn, whose work spans contemporary visual and performing arts, media, and civic action. It’s a public media center, a contemporary art exhibition space, multiple performance spaces, a TV studio, artist work spaces and classroom.
And heading it all up is Wes Jackson, who took over as BRIC’s president in July from his predecessor Kristina Newman Scott. Jackson, who has had a career that is just as multifaceted as the organization he’s running, joins us on “Brooklyn Magazine: The Podcast” this week. He was the founder and executive director of the hugely influential Brooklyn Hip-Hop Festival from to He has run a business program designed for executives at Emmerson College. And he began his career producing concerts at his alma mater, the University of Virgina, for groups like the Nas, The Fugees, Dave Matthews Band the Roots and Tribe Called Quest before starting his promotions company, Seven Heads Entertainment.
We discussed his first three months on the job, his career, his upbringing and how hip hop — and lacrosse — saved his life. Jackson explains exactly why creative people are so important. “We are wizards,” he says. “We are alchemists.”
The following transcript of this podcast episode has been edited for clarity and flow. For the full conversation, listen wherever you get your podcasts.
You began this role on July 18, or at least it was announced on July American geneticist (born ) Wes Jackson (born ) co-founded the Land Institute with Dana Jackson. He is also a member of the World Future Council. Jackson was born and raised on a farm near Topeka, Kansas. After earning a BA in biology from Kansas Wesleyan University, an MA in botany from the University of Kansas, and a PhD in genetics from North Carolina State University. Wes Jackson established and served as chair of one of the United States' first environmental studies programs at California State University, Sacramento. Jackson then chose to leave academia, returning to his native Kansas, where he founded a non-profit organization, The Land Institute, in The Land Institute is working to develop perennial grains, pulses, and oilseed-bearing plants to be grown in ecologically intensified, diverse crop mixtures under its Natural Systems Agriculture program. In tandem with these sustainable agriculture efforts, the Ecosphere Studies program seeks to change the way people think about the world and their place in it, through educational and cultural projects with a perennial perspective. Jackson stepped down from the presidency of The Land Institute in , but still works in the Ecosphere Studies program. The Land Institute has explored alternatives in appropriate technology, environmental ethics, and education, but a research program in sustainable agriculture eventually became central to its work. In , Jackson proposed the development of a perennialpolyculture. He sought to have fields planted in polycultures, more than one variety of plant in a field, like diverse plants grow together in nature. Jackson also wanted to use perennials, which would not need to be replanted every year - reducing the need for frequent tillage, preventing erosion, and promoting plant-soil microbe relationships to establish and persist. T Â After earning a BA in biology from Kansas Wesleyan University, an MA in botany from the University of Kansas, and a PhD in genetics from North Carolina State University, Wes Jackson established and served as chair of one of the United States' first environmental studies programs at California State University-Sacramento. Jackson then chose to leave academia, returning to his native Kansas, where he founded a non-profit organization, The Land Institute, in He was head of The Land Institute until he stepped down in The organization describes its main goal as the development of Natural Systems Agriculture; it also publishes The Land Report, a newsletter about American sustainable agriculture and agrarianism. The Land Institute explored alternatives in appropriate technology, environmental ethics, and education, but a research program in sustainable agriculture eventually became central to its work. In Jackson proposed the development of a perennial polyculture. He sought to have fields planted in polycultures, more than one plant in a field, as in nature. Jackson also wanted to use perennials, which would not need to be replanted every year - that would leave the soil more intact, preventing erosion, and allowing important relationships between soil and plant to continue. The Land Institute attempts to breed plants not presently used in agriculture into effective producers of perennial grains in intercropping conditions. Jackson argued that this version of agriculture used "nature as model", and to pursue that end The Land Institute has studied prairie ecology. Entering its fourth decade, The Land Institute is beginning to demonstrate progress in developing the perennial crops called for in the Natural Systems Agriculture model. Programs in wheat, sorghum, and sunflower are generating crop lines displaying both perenniality and agriculturally-significant seed yield. Research on integrating these new plants into polycultures also continues. The Lan
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