Milton Markey on tue 3 oct 00
Hi Emma!
What a great topic to explore. I don't know where you are (what city you live
in), but if you're close to the SF Bay Area in California, contact the
ceramics faculty at Laney College, in Oakland. There are two instructors
there who, in their professional life, have created marvelous sculptures
using ceramics, recycled materials, and found materials, to demonstrate the
effect we have on our environment. Sorry, I can't recall names, and my list
of instructors has mysteriously dissappeared.
A unique program is carried out by the garbage collection agency of San
Francisco. Once a year, an artist is chosen from a group of applicants, to
occupy a special art studio--right at the dump! That's right, the studio
exists to encourage art about the waste that's dumped unceremoniously into
the land fills. The chosen artist must use waste materials collected near the
studio, and must present a public exhibition near the conclusion of his or
her "reign" at the studio. I've seen one such exhibit--the artist in
residence made an environmental landscape scupture using muck and goo from
garbage trucks--not a sweet smelling exhibit. The artist made his point,
nonetheless, about what we think of, when confronted by garbage, and how the
environment is literally "reeking" of tons of this "gumbo."
I wish you the best, as you conduct research for your project.
Milton NakedClay@AOL.COM
No longer a "City" resident, but one who howls with coyotes.
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