Kristen Cochran and Erin Starr White gathered several local artists at the Reading Room in Dallas TX on the evening of Saturday, December 4 for a potluck of sorts – each of us contributed edible art as part of a … Continue reading
Greg Gleason accompanied me in New Jersey, Washington D.C. and Baltimore in late spring of 2009, documenting the construction of the Porta Hedge – Mobile Observation Lab, an installation at the U.S. Botanic Garden and some artificial tree planting. Greg … Continue reading
This Christmas marks the second anniversary of the 7,000 Evergreens project. And to celebrate the project’s efforts, we’re back in north Georgia, where the project began, to film a promotional music video that features 7,000 Evergreens’ new mascot, Charlie Green. … Continue reading
The Porta Hedge contributed briefly to the holiday cheer in the Oak Grove at Indiana University of Pennsylvania as students prepared for finals and the holiday break. IUP grad student Bifei Cao helped decorate the Hedge with LED Christmas lights … Continue reading
For the exhibition Engineering Eden at Allegheny College, artist Jessica Longobardo compiled three handmade booklets for three of her friends, each of whom comes from a distinct bioregion in the United States. Each booklet includes a map illustrating the distribution … Continue reading
The Terrestrial Shrub Rover debuted this weekend at the Grounds for Sculpture. The reception was a wonderful event and celebrated the opening of the Fall/Winter Exhibition at the Grounds, which includes the 2009 Outstanding Student Achievement in Sculpture show, a … Continue reading
Quicker than we thought, Porta Park became a real New York City public park for a day at Park(ing) Day NYC 2008 this past Friday, September 19. We pulled into the city early, set up at 10th Avenue and West … Continue reading
Small in scale compared to the Olympics, perhaps. But grand is the first word that comes to mind when describing this past weekend’s first ever Christmas Tree Toss World Championships. The Institute for Aesthletics did a fantastic job organizing this … Continue reading
Don’t toss your Christmas Tree out, toss it into a new composition! 7,000 Evergreens and the Institute for Aesthletics present the first ever Christmas Tree Toss to take place September 5 on Long Island in Easthampton. Participants will toss javelins … Continue reading
What a fantastic opportunity! I am pleased to announce that the city of Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts has invited our project, 7,000 Evergreens to participate in the 2008-2009 Baltimore Sculpture Project show in downtown Baltimore.