New Farm
New Farm
Jennifer Drinkwater. New Farm, acrylic on wood panel, 11.5” H x 24” W x 1.75” D, 2020.
New Farm arrives wired and ready to hang. My genius husband Aaron Swanson carefully crafts each panel with high-quality wood, mounting a smooth plywood surface onto a sturdy, mitred wooden frame that provides depth and support to the painting. The sides of the panel are sanded and finished for smoothness.
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Twenty percent of this sale will support the Washington County Work Ready Association in Greenville, Mississippi. The mission of the Washington County Work Ready Association is to promote, support, and provide innovative programs that provide workforce development skill training for high demand and high growth industry sectors to residents of Washington County, Mississippi.
The community story that inspired New Farm….
In 2019, Australian-based NuFarm began transforming an older manufacturing facility in Greenville, Mississippi into a new crop protection facility. This building has been empty since 2015 - its last tenants being 13 Matcor employees who made dashboards for Nissan Armadas.
Largely because of its location on the Mississippi River, Greenville has historically been a manufacturing community. Post NAFTA, many of these companies moved out of the US, leaving behind large empty facilities and an under-developed workforce. Greenville is working to change both, having secured over 100 million in economic investments in the last few years, while simultaneously investing in the community’s workforce development thru several nationally recognized programs.
Greenville currently has a poverty rate of 35% and a 6.6% unemployment rate. This newly renovated plant will be the first manufacturing company to set up in Washington County since 2004, bringing with it 69 jobs with benefits, all but one of which will be local hires.
