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The recently announced recipients of the 2008 Americans for the Arts Public Arts Network Awards include a work by Lorna Jordan called Terraced Cascade. It’s a xeriscaped park/abstraction of the human body. Can’t get much more direct than that. It’s a landscape of Here’s my long overdue field report on the National Summit on the Arts and Environment, held by Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts, Americans for the Arts, and the Aspen Institute on July 14th. Twenty “national thought leaders” in business, community development, the arts, and the environment gathered to lay the groundwork for arts In the theme of Words as Art, take a look at the project Flower Markers, by Norm Magnusson. On little tin strips and plastic garden tabs you expect to see words like “marjoram,” “marigold” or “mint.” Instead, Magnusson very simply and cleverly lists the names of places Since 2001, greenmuseum.org has been dedicated to spreading the word about environmental art. Just two of us in a room most of the time, plus kind folks like Moe and Tyler, our Board, donors and friends and of course, the growing number of artists and people out there making this stuff… and together THIS WEEK: AN IMAGE OF WORDS Hey folks. There are a lot of amazing writings on the greenmuseum.org site, and today we’re spotlighting one of the newer ones, by Chris Desser. It’s called Art and the Commons. Within it lies a detailed examination I’ve been holding back for long enough: Vaughn Bell is hilarious. The Seattle-based artist creates sculpture and performance works that examine our relationship to nature in a manner that’s fun and funky. Besides the Personal Biospheres above, where folks can isolate their heads in |
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