Tag Archives: Lincoln Massachusetts

Nancy Milliken’s Earth Press Project: Witness, October Views

October 7, 2019 · by · in architecture, Art, art history, Artists, bricks, ceramics, clay sculpture, collaborative art projects, commuity, conceptual art, contemporary pasturalism, crafts, design, environmental sculpture, Exhibits, graphic design, history, Installations, interactive art, landscape architecture, Massachusetts history, National Park Service, Sculpture, studios, technology, temporary art, Videos, visual art, women artists · Leave a comment

Ways to Witness Earth Press Project: WITNESS in the next few weeks: 1. Visit the real installation before November, 2. Visit Nancy Winship Milliken Studio website. 3. Visit NPS website for Minute Man National Historical Park. 4. Visit website for the Umbrella, Arts and Environment. Any or all of the above will give you a sense of the complicated steps, interactions, and connections within a seemingly simple structure.

Nancy Winship Milliken, Pasture Song, plus Earth Press Project: Witness

July 7, 2019 · by · in animals in art, Art, Artists, clay sculpture, commuity, contemporary pasturalism, crafts, farm residencies, history, humor, Installations, interactive art, kinetic sculpture, Massachusetts history, music, Nature study, parks, political issues, public art, Sculpture, temporary art, visual art, women artists · Leave a comment

Pasture Song at deCordova, was originally scheduled to depart this summer. What great news that it will stay another year! ….Meanwhile another time-sensitive matter has sped up my posting about Nancy Milliken’s work. That is Earth-Press Project: Witness, which calls on all of us to each offer one word that might be imprinted in an adobe block of earth for an installation at Minute-Man National Historic Park in Lincoln.

Alchemist in Cambridge and Humming in Lincoln, Huge Human Forms by Jaume Plensa

April 15, 2015 · by · in Art, Artists, families, public art, Sculpture, Sculpture Parks · 6 Comments

Humming by Jaume Plensa at the deCordova Sculpture Park in Lincoln, MA and his Alchemist on MIT’s campus in Cambridge are the only two sculptures by Plensa that I have seen in person. I’ve known Humming for a few years, and I’m only just getting to know Alchemist. Like several other sculptures by this innovative versatile artist, both are much larger than […]

Playful Work by Artist Thomas Willis in Home Depot House at deCordova

March 16, 2014 · by · in architecture, Art, art history, Artists, families, Installations, Sculpture, Sculpture Parks · Leave a comment

This is my third post about deCordova Biennial’s Home Depot House but first to include a direct link to artist John C. Gonzalez’ story of how it came to be. Curating a  series of month-long residencies there by six different artists, John carried out the first one, in early fall.  Now in nearly spring, this final residency […]

John Osorio-Buck, Artist with Crickets at Home Depot House

March 2, 2014 · by · in architecture, Art, Artists, edible insects, Exhibits, Sculpture, Sculpture Parks · 4 Comments

At deCordova on a sunny chilly Friday afternoon at the end of February, I got to see how John Osorio-Buck has transformed Home Depot House. For this artist it has become a space to study,raise, harvest, prepare, and serve crickets, but only until Sunday afternoon,  March 9.  I’m posting now to alert  people  to this […]

Red, Yellow and Blue Installation by Orly Genger at deCordova

December 20, 2013 · by · in Art, Installations, Sculpture, Sculpture Parks · Leave a comment

How did artist Orly Genger manage to  install more than a million feet of hand-crocheted lobster fishing rope throughout the grounds of deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum in Lincoln, Massachusetts?  What inspired the creation of this grand-scale work of art?   The deCordova website offers answers to these questions, along with dramatic photos of each of the […]