ScrapEden at Burning Man 2006!

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By now a few of you have probably heard of the Black Rock Arts Foundation. Maybe you came across a Temple in San Francisco last summer, or have passed by Mission and Embarcadero only to find 'Passage' standing with the Bay Bridge in the background.

Well, BRAF is now embarkingon a bold new project, ScrapEden, and we're going to do a pilot in BRC this year! ScrapEden -- a collaborative garden installation populated by garden-inspired sculptural elements created from re-claimed, re-purposed and re-cycled materials, and all citizens of BRC are invited to participate! Yes! You are an artist!

The idea formed this year in San Francisco when the Foundation began looking at what it could do, using interactive art as the medium, to promote a culture of re-use and re-cycling. And while this installation will take place at Burning Man 2006 we hope it will serve as a pilot project for sprouting gardens first in BRC, then SF, and eventually, nationwide. Help make it happen!

The Black Rock Arts Foundation is inviting Burning Man participants to create sculptures of garden-inspired flora and fauna from re-claimed, re-cycled and re-purposed INORGANIC materials for a collective installation on the open playa. We’ll provide a centrally located garden shed (built from re-claimed materials) as a focal point around which participants will be able to install, individual (or communal) creations for collective exhibition.

If you would like to create a sculpture for exhibition, or help us staff the ScrapEden installation, contact us at: [email protected]