Browsing All posts tagged under »Andy Goldsworthy«

Clearly cold

February 5, 2012

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Katherine writes: Woke up to a skim of ice on the lake this morning—which by now is yesterday morning, as I am behind on pretty much everything. You will notice that there are no fishing shanties at all. There has been no Daugherty Johnson snow sculpture this winter either. Unsettling, that's what it is.

Seeing the forest in the trees

May 29, 2011

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Last Wednesday was drizzly, but an intrepid group from the Environmental Art Class set out for Library Hill armed with three bags of cherry pits and a lot of determination.

Raining frogs and flowers

May 12, 2011

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You cannot predict what the Environmental Art Class will get up to. Yesterday the plan was to try a couple of experiments at Memorial Park: a design project around the big willow and a color drop from the bridge. A little digression into frog study and then back to the studio, where gathering around the […]

What would Andy Goldsworthy do?

May 5, 2011

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If we commissioned Andy Goldsworthy to come to Elk Rapids Michigan to do an installation, I wonder what he’d create? I’ll probably never know, but meanwhile, here’s what the Environmental Art Class, inspired by Goldsworthy, did yesterday on the shore of Grand Traverse Bay. They’re still exploring, still learning. They have three weeks left, and […]

The Environmental Art project in ER

April 18, 2011

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Katherine and I begged leave to audit the Environmental Art class that Lindy Bishop is teaching at Cherryland Middle School in Elk Rapids.