Nomad Clan, British
Kevin Burdick, American, born 1985
This piece was commissioned by the Flint Public Art Project, partnering with Flint Fresh, an organization that runs eleven food hubs to act as a local kind of grocery store for the people of Genesee County. It is Flint Fresh who hosts the mural within one of their hubs. Nomad Clan are a duo of street artists that have been involved in several social justice projects, and Kevin Burdick is a Flint native experienced in multiple mediums of art. The piece itself shows a quintessential cornucopia of produce accompanied by the words “Flint Fresh”, and so on one level it is a kind of advertisement for Flint Fresh. On another level this piece speaks to showing how Flint is a “fresh” and healthy city, not just in spite of disasters like lead-poisoned drinking water, but because of the activist’s drive for local self-determination in the face of such disasters as is also represented by Flint Fresh’s goal of forming a local network between farmers, distributors, and the people of Flint. Label by Frank Kennedy