John McLaren Park Open Skies - Open Skies Parks & Projects - Open Skies - Open Skies: Celebrating the Frontier Spirit of Today's Artists October 19-21, 2007 3 Days - 10 San Francisco Parklands - 15 Contemporary Artists Curated by Elliot Lessing Open Skies is a citywide Contemporary Arts Exhibition that celebrates the spirit of wonder, renewal, and creative social action through artist-driven public projects that activate space and community resources. Open Skies unites 15 Contemporary Artists with 10 San Francisco neighborhood parks to deliver extraordinary site-specific art projects of all media for families, new residents, and city visitors. All exhibitions, tours, workshops, special events, and educational materials are completely free to the public. Combined, these project features highlight our neighborhood parks as living outdoor classrooms - thus transforming Open Skies into a welcoming community enrichment project. Open Skies is at once a brilliant opportunity for families, community members, and city visitors to enjoy a rich synthesis of inspiring artistic visions, dynamic educational programming, and constructive civic engagement. For more info, please view: www.cocanow.org

John McLaren Park Open Skies

Open Skies Parks & Projects

Artist: Ellen Babcock with Hannah Barnard-Henke, Amy Dotts, Shawn Hibmacronan, Marnika Shelton, Gian Giglio
Project: McLarenology

NOTE: PROJECT SITE NEAR TENNIS COURTS AND ENTRANCE TO J GARCIA AMPH

McLarenology explores the bold and eccentric life of John Mclaren, or "The Boss" as he was often called.

Uber steward of natural beauty, friend of John Muir, Scotsman champion of lawn bowling -- yet vexed by notions of statuary in the parks! This fascinating figure offers artists clear challenges regarding public artworks that unearth McLaren's persona and psychology.

Join Ellen Babcock and her courageous action team as they brave wildly historical mandates, in order to chart new vistas in public sculpture and empathetic form!

Open Skies

Open Skies: Celebrating the Frontier Spirit of Today's Artists
October 19-21, 2007
3 Days - 10 San Francisco Parklands - 15 Contemporary Artists

Curated by Elliot Lessing

Open Skies is a citywide Contemporary Arts Exhibition that celebrates the spirit of wonder, renewal, and creative social action through artist-driven public projects that activate space and community resources.

Open Skies unites 15 Contemporary Artists with 10 San Francisco neighborhood parks to deliver extraordinary site-specific art projects of all media for families, new residents, and city visitors.

All exhibitions, tours, workshops, special events, and educational materials are completely free to the public. Combined, these project features highlight our neighborhood parks as living outdoor classrooms - thus transforming Open Skies into a welcoming community enrichment project.

Open Skies is at once a brilliant opportunity for families, community members, and city visitors to enjoy a rich synthesis of inspiring artistic visions, dynamic educational programming, and constructive civic engagement.

For more info, please view: www.cocanow.org