Conversations with Artists—Mel Chin
November 18, 2009, 5:30 pm, Tour/Lecture
Chin's unconventional and politically charged projects investigate how art provokes greater social awareness and responsibility. Chin often engages others in creative partnerships: in his ongoing Fundred Dollar Bill Project, he asks students to decorate mock currency to raise money to treat soil contamination in New Orleans.
Free; registration required: CSMAprograms@phillipscollection.org
Mel Chin is a public art ecologist/botanist/bad ass environmentalist who has done site specific installations on toxic waste sites using 'hyperaccumulator' plants which soak up heavy metals from soils. PBS' Art21 did a piece on Mel Chin. Get excited! Sign up, as of yesterday there was still space.
1 comment:
He is really easy to talk to, so if you go, TALK TO HIM!!!! ask him about the things hes been doing with the FUNDRED project
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