Palo Alto Art Center's Site-specific Installation: Lang's LawnBowls January 21, 2012

Saturday, Jan 21, 10am-2pm

The acclaimed Palo Alto Art Center will present Bay Area artist Judith Selby Lang's LawnBowls, the next new temporary site-specific installation in its series exploring art in public and community spaces. Opening February 1, 2012, LawnBowls will be installed on the grounds of the Palo Alto Lawn Bowls Club, 474 Embarcadero in Palo Alto, through February 2013. Lang's work has been celebrated for its striking focus on the relationship between humans and the environment. LawnBowls will be created by the public in several community workshops using recycled plastic bags to create monumental ball sculptures. Free community workshop: Saturday, January 21, 10am-2pm, Lucie Stern Community Center. For information, visit www.cityofpaloalto.org/artcenter .

LawnBowls will be an installation of 10-12 large balls created from single-use plastic bags arranged on the lawn space adjacent to the Palo Alto Lawn Bowls Club. The balls will appear as a game in progress-as if some giant players had just left the scene. These colorful sculptures will provide a compelling example of a playful reuse of what might otherwise be trash or perhaps recycled.

The creation of LawnBowls will involve a community effort. Workshops with the public (including youth, veterans, seniors and others) will be held at several locations in Palo Alto and East Palo Alto. Participants will help cut hundreds of bags into strips to form the wrapping and will help to twine the bags around the form.

LawnBowls is presented in conjunction with the Palo Alto Lawn Bowls Club, (www.palbc.org), is co-sponsored by the Palo Alto Public Art Commission and is supported by the Palo Alto Art Center Foundation. Double Take and Clear-Story were funded, in part, by the Palo Alto Art Center Foundation through an IMLS grant.

Official Website: http://www.cityofpaloalto.org/depts/csd/activities_and_recreation/attractions/art_center/calendar.asp