Everyone and everything on Earth and in Space is part of A Living Library of diversity: people, birds, trees, air, water, and all the things we create, such as - parks, gardens, schools, curricula, artworks, networks, communities, celebrations. A Living Library, or, A.L.L., for short, provides a way to understand that culture and technology are part of nature. It’s all nature.
A Living Library provides a powerful systemic framework, multiple methodologies and strategies for creating place-based, ecological change in communities and schools - locally and globally.
A.L.L. integrates local resources - past, present, future - and transforms them with community, to become vibrant, content-rich, art-filled, ecological learning landscapes; each Branch linked to another.
A unique opportunity for Middle & High School students to engage in gardening, cooking and creative arts while gaining real-world experience in green job skills and sustainable business practices through integrated hands-on learning program. Fill out the PUC-DCYF-Spring 2019 ALL Green Futures Application Form today!
Green-Powered Digital Gateway 8 © Bonnie Ora Sherk
You are cordially invited to attend a Presentation & Exhibition of Work-In-Progress for Green-Powered Digital Gateways by Bonnie Ora Sherk. A Green-Powered Digital Gateway is a multifunctional, sculptural and ecological element in the landscape that will do many things: draw water forth from the ground as needed, showcase local community resources through diverse digital displays showcasing multimedia archives of the area, and allow for live, interactive broadcast from diverse Branch Living Library & Think Parks – locally and globally. This phase of Green-Powered Digital Gateways development is funded by the San Francisco Arts Commission.
WHERE:
Lower Garden, OMI/Excelsior Living Library & Think Park on Oneida Avenue off San Jose Avenue between Ocean and Geneva Avenues adjacent to James Denman Middle School and San Miguel Early Education School.
Take BART to Balboa Station: Walk left on Geneva one block to San Jose Avenue. Make left on San Jose Avenue, walk two blocks, make right on Oneida, On right side of street, mid-block is Lower Garden.
(This is an outdoor space with no exact street address, but it is between 333 Oneida and 241 Oneida, San Francisco, CA 94112).
WHEN:
November 15 ~ Presentation with Bonnie Ora Sherk: 2:30 PM
November 15 ~ Exhibition: 2:00 PM – 4:30 PM
November 16 ~ Three Presentations with Bonnie Ora Sherk: 10:00 AM | 10:50 AM | 11:50 AM
November 16 ~ Exhibition: 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM
For more information: info@alivinglibrary.org / 212-242-1700
Green-Powered Digital Gateway 2 © Bonnie Ora Sherk
Fall is here! In Roosevelt Island Living Library & Think Park - a verdant, blooming, organic garden of flowers, fruit, herbs and vegetables, it is time to enjoy nature's bountiful magic. We have a number of visitors appreciating and enjoying the beauty of the Garden. Please enjoy a few pictures of our wonderful visitors, without whom the Garden would had been incomplete. (more…)
Bonnie Ora Sherk is exhibiting A Living Library and Crossroads Community (the farm) in her new art installation: Evolution of Life Frames: 1974-Present, at Centro de Arte y Naturaleza-Fundación Beulas (CDAN), in Huesca, Spain. The exhibition opened on October 18, Territories That Matter: Art, Gender And Ecology, is curated by Juan Guardiola, Director, CDAN and Patricia Mayayo, Lecturer, Art History Department, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Territories That Matter investigates the complex inter-relationships between gender politics, contemporary art and environmental issues, and emphasizes the contributions of women artists in the field of art and ecology. Read more about this exhibition.
Image Credit: Centro de Arte y Naturaleza-Fundación Beulas (CDAN)
Director of CDAN, Juan Guardiola, has also invited Bonnie Ora Sherk to have a one person exhibition at the Museum in 2020.
Stay tuned to get updates about Bonnie Ora Sherk’s installation in this and upcoming exhibitions at CDAN.
From September 28, 2018 to June 15, 2019, the de Saisset Museum in Santa Clara University is hosting the exhibition Radical Velocity, curated by Lauren Baines, showing the power of the human body to impact our sense of place. Several images from Bonnie Ora Sherk‘s Sitting Still Series (1970), a powerful and pioneering, environmental performance installation series, are being featured in the Exhibition. The Sitting Still Series highlights how a seated human figure can very simply transform an environment. Seated in an armchair in diverse urban places – Army Street/101 Freeway Interchange Construction Zone, the Golden Gate Bridge, the Financial District including Bank of America Plaza, and various indoor/ outdoor cages in the San Francisco Zoo, Bonnie Ora Sherk transformed dead spaces into new and interesting environments that changed our perceptions about possibilities.
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