Bring the kids and go home with a masterpiece!
WHAT: Join the SFAC Galleries for a free, family friendly event with Cardboard Institute of Technology (CIT) collective member, Mike Murnane on Sunday, August 18. Murnane will lead activities at cardboard creation stations where participants can let their imaginations run wild. The stations will be set up in front of CIT's new installation TRUDGE, which inhabits the SFAC Galleries Window Installation Site until August 31. TRUDGE features a mastodon of the recycled cardboard variety stomping through a cardboard Jurassic landscape!
Right next door to the event is the Please Touch Community Garden, which will be open to the public that day. Also, while in the neighborhood, you can check out the Heart of the City Farmer's Market at UN Plaza and the Sunday Street event in the Tenderloin.
WHEN: Sunday, August 18, noon-3 p.m., FREE
WHERE: SFAC Galleries Window Installation Site at 155 Grove Street
INFO/ RSVP: Call (415) 554-6080 and RSVP to aimee.leduc@sfgov.org
ABOUT C.I.T.
Founded in 2007 by Joshua Short and Scott Falkowski, C.I.T. is a self-described "collective of artists, technologists and handymen dedicated to the development, functionality and everyday practice of art...through cardboard and other means." Joshua Short, Jesse Wilson, Joel Stockdill, Mike Murnane, and Robin Frohardt, members of the group took turns working on the massive installation made from recycled cardboard over an 18-day period.
C.I.T. wants the public to interpret the installation on their own terms, however Short admits that it might bring to mind our relationship with the earth, and with fossil fuels in particular. He is quick to also add that, "C.I.T. is more about provoking dialogue around liberty than around politics. We like to look at the big picture and are drawn to narratives that comment on the human condition at large."
Links:
SFAC Galleries: http://www.sfartscommission.org/gallery/
C.I.T. http://cardboardinstitute.blogspot.com/
Check out this video of C.I.T.'s large-scale, battery-car velodrome installation at the Bedford Gallery in Walnut Creek. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvobYSmUKgk
SFAC Window Installation Site
155 Grove Street
San Francisco, CA 94102
