{"id":2814,"date":"2012-02-12T00:14:03","date_gmt":"2012-02-12T00:14:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alivinglibrary.org\/archive-site\/?p=2814"},"modified":"2012-02-15T18:06:51","modified_gmt":"2012-02-15T18:06:51","slug":"portable-park-lv-living-library-opens-santa-monica-ca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alivinglibrary.org\/archive-site\/art-landscape-architecture-systemic-design\/portable-park-lv-living-library-opens-santa-monica-ca","title":{"rendered":"Portable Park lV = A Living Library Opens in Santa Monica, CA."},"content":{"rendered":"

Portable Park lV – past, present, future = A Living Library <\/strong><\/em>by Bonnie Ora Sherk<\/strong><\/em> opened on January 29 at Santa Monica Place in Santa Monica, CA. as part of The Getty Public Art & Performance Festival<\/strong><\/em> and PST<\/strong><\/em>.  This multi-sensory, living sculpture landscape, replete with sounds of singing birds and crickets, served as both metaphor and actual design in the shape of The Flower Unfolding<\/strong><\/em>.  The fragrant piece, viewed from above or from ground level had multiple evergreen and deciduous fruit trees, rose bushes, herbs, vegetables, and flowers. <\/p>\n

The piece which was an update from the original work, Portable Parks l – lll<\/a> from 1970, was developed in conjunction with the MFA Public Practice Program <\/strong><\/em>of Otis College of Art & Design<\/em>, and Karen Moss<\/strong><\/em>, Curator and Acting Chair of Otis.  High School Students from the Crossroads School of Arts and Sciences<\/strong><\/em> led by Pam Posey<\/strong><\/em> made beautifully painted fruits and flowers that were added to the bare branches of the deciduos fruit trees and rose bushes and labels for the Herb Lanes<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n

See link to the The Getty Website:   <\/strong><\/em>
\n\t<\/strong><\/em>Portable Park IV: Past, Present, Future = A Living Library<\/a><\/p>\n

Read a review from the Santa Monica Mirror:  Portable Park At Santa Monica Place Through Sunday
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And, have a look at some pictures of the artwork.  People of all ages seemed to enjoy it ! We hope you do too !<\/p>\n

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Portable Park lV – past, present, future = A Living Library by Bonnie Ora Sherk opened on January 29 at Santa Monica Place in Santa Monica, CA. as part of The Getty Public Art & Performance Festival and PST.  This multi-sensory, living sculpture landscape, replete with sounds of singing birds and crickets, served as both […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2822,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"slim_seo":{"title":"Portable Park lV = A Living Library Opens in Santa Monica, CA. - A Living Library - Archive Site","description":"Portable Park lV - past, present, future = A Living Library by Bonnie Ora Sherk opened on January 29 at Santa Monica Place in Santa Monica, CA. as part of The G"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art-landscape-architecture-systemic-design"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alivinglibrary.org\/archive-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alivinglibrary.org\/archive-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alivinglibrary.org\/archive-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alivinglibrary.org\/archive-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alivinglibrary.org\/archive-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2814"}],"version-history":[{"count":43,"href":"https:\/\/alivinglibrary.org\/archive-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2825,"href":"https:\/\/alivinglibrary.org\/archive-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2814\/revisions\/2825"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alivinglibrary.org\/archive-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alivinglibrary.org\/archive-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alivinglibrary.org\/archive-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alivinglibrary.org\/archive-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}