So we headed out (bright and early) to Brooklyn this morning for a big reception where we’ll be going over just a few of the things we’re doing online.
Waiting for the Airport Taxi
The Plane
Finally, NYC
Arrival at the reception site.
The Powerhouse Arena.
The sights around the arena.
All photographs by Ryan Donahue.
Take a look at the transformation of a William M. Vander Weyde image that we are sharing on the Flickr Commons. Thanks to Flickr user pennylricharsca. We love it!
Purse made with William Vander Weyde photograph
William M. Vander Weyde, Atlantic City Beach, ca.1905
At the end of April we drained and cleaned the pond in the Terrace Garden. It was a big process that involved several days of hard labor and the removal of a lot of muck. Thanks to Eastman House Gardeners, Andy and Dan, the pond is now sparkling.
Draining the Pond
Cleaning the Pond
Andy removing muck
Clean!
Pond and House
Waterlilies waiting to get back in the water
Filling the Pond
Beautiful!
All photographs by Barbara Galasso, Museum Photographer
Behind the Scenes at George Eastman House
Installation of Not a Cornfield continues at George Eastman House. We have two more days until the public opening on Friday, May 8th. The opening starts at Eastman House and then continues at the Rochester Contemporary Art Center.
Cornfield team member Janet Owen Driggs arranges material for the installation
Artist Lauren Bon during installation
The Not a Cornfield blog reports that this is the first installation of Lauren Bon’s metabolic sculpture and that the exhibition will offer visitors the opportunity to explore some of the sights, sounds, ideas, and legacies of Not a Cornfield and some of the projects it inspired, including Farmlab and the Metabolic Studio, and the local initiative PLANT Rochester.
Check out these photos of our latest gallery installation!
The giant earth pillow is rolled up in the tube on the right
The giant earth pillow is out of the tube—on the floor next to the Creative Services team: James, Juliana (Head Preparator) and Travis
The pillow gets stuffed!
All hands on deck for the positioning of the pillow!
Not a Cornfield is a photography and video installation that captures the transformation of a 32-acre brownfield in the historic center of Los Angeles into a cornfield for one agricultural cycle between May 2005 and May 2006.
This project – which involved 1,500 truckloads of clean dirt and 1 million corn seeds – was created by artist Lauren Bon to bring forth questions surrounding the nature of urban public spaces and to convey redemption and hope.
This interactive exhibition will be on view at George Eastman House from Saturday, May 9 through Sunday, July 12, 2009.
We will continue to post photos of the Not a Cornfield installation and exhibition throughout its run at George Eastman House.
All photographs by Barbara Galasso.