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Art & Community Landscapes/GranteesCYCLE 4 GRANTEES (2007-2008) Project: Concord River Greenway Public Art: Bridges and Gateways (Lowell, Massachusetts) The Concord River Greenway is a 1.75-mile multi-use trail along the eastern bank of the Concord River, from Lawrence Street near the Lowell Cemetery to downtown Lowell. The City of Lowell is in the process of acquiring the land for the corridor, which will be open to the public. The trail will include both an upper paved, multi-use, accessible path as well as an informal lower, natural, walking path along the riverbank. The Concord River Greenway will provide vital open space in Lowell’s diverse neighborhoods and will be an important link in Lowell’s interconnected systems of river and canal trails as well as a larger regional trail system that includes the Bruce Freeman Trail and the Bay Circuit Trail. "A Public Art Plan for the Greenway" developed by artists Mags Harries and Lajos Heder identifies general design principles and opportunities for incorporating art along the greenway. The Public Art Plan was funded in part by a grant from the Fund for the Arts, a restricted fund of the New England Foundation for the Arts. To view the Public Art Plan, go to www.nefa.org/grantprog/fundforarts/documents/FFAConcordRiverBook.pdf The ACL project has commissioned Wopo Holup to work with the engineering/landscape architecture team (EarthTech and BSC Group), the community and other partners to incorporate thematic elements in the actual design of bridges and gateways. The project will engage and celebrate the community’s history, diverse cultures and ecology. Project: Mozart Park Public Art Project (Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts) In 2007 the Hyde Square Task Force received a Fund for the Arts grant of $25,000 for mural along a 100-yard brick wall in Mozart Park. Working under the supervision of muralist, Roberto Chao, the mural will be designed and painted by local youth, who in recent years have responded to violence in the neighborhood by creating art that transforms public areas where violence occurs. Following this project the Hyde Square Task Force received Art & Community Landscapes support to engage an artist in a separate public art element for Mozart Park on Center Street in Jamaica Plain. Artist, Doug Kornfeld, has been selected to work with the youth and community on a gateway design for the park. In addition to the park element, youth will participate directly in the artist’s process learning computer and web design skills through workshops by the artist. CYCLE 3 GRANTEES (2005-2006) Project: Lincoln Street Green Strip (Allston Brighton, MA) The Lincoln Street Green Strip is a land parcel created in the 1960’s, when the construction of the Massachusetts Turnpike physically divided the city of Boston’s Allston Brighton neighborhood. The Green Strip is currently a neglected piece of land adjacent to several major arteries, heavily used by automobiles, buses and pedestrians. The goal of the project is to convert the space from a weed and trash-filled lot to an attractive public space that improves the neighborhood’s quality of life. The project will further the vision of community partner ABCDC by serving its mission “to engage neighborhood residents in an ongoing process of shaping and carrying out a common vision of a diverse and stable community through community-led projects that protect and create affordable housing, green space, and foster a healthy local economy.” The artist team of Legge Lewis Legge, selected through a national competition, will work with ABCDC and the community to re-envision the Green Strip through two project phases. The first will involve a site planning and design phase, the second will focus on the creation of a green space with programming elements that reflect the community’s needs and desires.
CYCLE 2 GRANTEES (2004-2005) Project: Re-storying Chelsea Creak (East Boston, Massachusetts) The Chelsea Creek Restoration Partnership (CCRP) strives to reclaim the neglected, contaminated Chelsea Creek as an environmental, recreational, economic, and educational asset for East Boston, Chelsea, Revere and the region. Artist Mark Dannenhauer's Re-storying Chelsea Creek project seeks to support CCRP by providing opportunities for community members to create photographs, sound recordings, and puppets that document Chelsea Creek's history, ecology, people and places. Re-storying Chelsea Creek has three parts: 100 Views, 100 Sounds, and 100 Puppets. The project's first stage was exhibited in January, 2005 at Atlantic Works Gallery in East Boston. 100 Views is inspired by woodblock print series 100 Famous Views of Edo, by 19th century Japanese printmaker Ando Hiroshige. The exhibit features works of East Boston and Chelsea community members who have worked with Dannenhauer to create images of their community. For 100 Sounds, participants recorded the sounds of Chelsea Creek at different times of day, in different seasons and weather, and also captured people’s stories about the landscape, its history and its life today. The sounds were used in a variety of multimedia presentations. 100 Puppets brings the stories of Chelsea Creek to life through puppetry. Community participants designed, built, and operated their own larger-than-life puppets based on Riverway stories that will then be paraded in June 2005. If you would like more information or are interested participating in the Re-storying Chelsea Creek project through creating artwork, attending public events, or arranging workshops, please contact Mark Dannenhauer or Stacy Chacker. Perquimans County is located in northeastern North Carolina in the Albemarle Region. Being a coastal county, waterways are abundant with over 100 miles of shoreline along three major rivers and the Albermarle Sound, most of which is undeveloped. Perquimans County is developing a Greenway/Blueway Masterplan that will provide guidance in developing districts for bicyclists, pedestrians, and kayaks/canoes while preserving valuable natural resources. There is also possible trail linkage to the East Coast Greenway that spans between Maine and Florida. Historic Hertford, Inc. is the community partner that will work closely with the finalist artist in the Art & Community Landscapes program. Check out www.visitperquimans.com for details.
CYCLE 1 GRANTEES (2002-2004) Project: Northern Forest Canoe Trail (Swanton & Richford, Vermont) Site-specific ecosculptures were also created for the Hoquarton Slough Trail in Tillamook, Oregon, the site of gateway artworks that highlighted the town's natural, cultural and historic resources. Part of a larger environmental restoration effort of the Tillamook Estuary Partnership, the proposed artworks filtered and cleaned tidal waters through native mosses and wetland plantings. Understanding watershed ecology through art was the focus of the Clarks Creek Greenway of Puyallup, Washington. Here, the artists created an interactive, portable, tabletop watershed model to illustrate the Creek's role within the town, homes, and farmland to promote environmental stewardship and the creation of a public greenway. Project: Amphitheater and Station Stops (Southern California)
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