Clare Patey will be collaborating with Phoenix artist Matthew Moore for an exhibition as part of Desert Initiative; Desert One at the ASU Art Museum. Patey will visit Phoenix April 25 to April 28 and will be hosted at the new ASU Art Museum Artist Residency at Combine Studios in downtown Phoenix.
For additional information on Patey’s “Feast on the Bridge” please visit: http://www.thamesfestival.org/weekend/detail/feast_on_the_bridge4/
The second season of sunflowers are beginning to sprout. Photo by Andrew Pielage.
The second season of the Valley of the Sunflowers is underway. Hundreds of volunteers have helped to seed two acres of vacant land for the second planting of a two-acre field of sunflowers in the heart of downtown Phoenix. The sprouts are beginning to poke through the amended soil. Today, volunteers are spreading hay and posting colorful reflective ribbons on stakes in order to protect the vulnerable sprouts from hungry pigeons. The plants are expected to reach full maturity in June.
During the first season of planting, students from the Phoenix Union Bioscience High School class tested the soil throughout the two-acre site to learn about how soil conditions affect the health of the plants. Nutrients and other amendments were added to areas of the field where plants in the first season did more poorly than others. This season, student will be able to evaluate how their work in modifying the soil impacts the health of the plants.
At the end of the season, the seeds will be harvested again to produce biofuel for a hybrid solar/biofuel vehicle the students have designed and are currently building in at the high school. For more updates and photos of the project, visit Valley of the Sunflowers on Facebook.
Miguel Palma has acquired a base vehicle for his desert exploration project.
Portuguese artist Miguel Palma will return to Phoenix in April to continue development of his commissioned project for Desert Initiative: Desert One. The project, a remote desert exploration vehicle, will convert a military truck into an exploration vehicle equipped with video recording and projection technologies. The project is being developed in partnership with the ASU School of Earth and Space Exploration and other community partners. The project is commissioned by the ASU Art Musuem for Desert Initiative: Desert One.
Visiting Artists Depict Arizona as a Four-Foot Wide Pizza
ASU Art Museum International Visiting Artists Matteo Rubbi, Béatrice Bailet and Miguel Palma collaborated on a four-foot wide pizza in the shape of the State of Arizona to celebrate the State’s 100th Anniversary. This experiment was to evaluate the potential for a larger project. Special thanks to the ASU School of Art Sculpture Department and Dustin Hesser, Damian Johnson and Jim White for fabrication of the pizza pan. Photography by Béatrice Bailet (Belgium). With Gregory Sale, Michael Tucker, Damian Johnson, Christine Tulk, Cindy Dach, Fausto Fernandez, Abbey Messmer, Braden Kay and Greg Esser.