Susanne Cockrell and Ted Purves work collaboratively on social art projects that investigate the overlay of urban and rural systems upon the lives of specific communities. Their projects ask questions about the nature of people and place as seen through social economy, history and local ecology. Their two and a half year project (2004-2007), Temescal Amity Works, facilitated and documented the exchange of backyard produce, conversation, and collective biography within the Temescal Neighborhood of Oakland, CA. In the fall of 2006, Amity Works created Sonoma County Preserve as an original project for the exhibition Hybrid Fields at the Sonoma County Museum. Sonoma County Preserve was an exhibition and installation of a wide variety of home-preserved foods that were grown, foraged or hunted by residents of Sonoma county. They have received a Creative Work Fund grant from the Elise and Walter Haas Foundation, a Visual Arts grant from the Creative Capital Foundation, and support from the Oakland Office of Cultural Affairs and California College of the Arts.