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Article Profiles the Recology SF Artist in Residence Program

Posted in Recology, San Francisco, You Should Know... by art at the dump on January 17, 2012

Robin LasserWEAD, the Women Environmental Artists Directory, has included an article about the Recology San Francisco Artist in Residence Program in issue #4 of their online magazine. Entitled, A Nexus for Art and Environmental Activism: The Recology San Francisco Artist in Residence Program, the article traces the history of the residency program and its role in bringing attention to important environmental matters. Included are the many artists who have addressed environmental issues in their residency work, as well as those with a social practice whose residencies have engaged community. The article illustrates how the residency activates artists, and demonstrates that even for those individuals whose work is not overtly environmental in focus, the residency experience has impacted their artistic practice and views about the environment and sustainability.

WEAD was founded in 1996 by Jo Hanson, Susan Leibovitz Steinman, and Estelle Akamine to use the unique perspective of women to further the field and understanding of ecological and social justice art through international collaborations. Hanson was the founder of the Recology Artist in Residence Program, and Steinman and Akamine both had residencies during the early years of the program. We are happy to continue our relationship with this organization which presents a distinctive voice on important issues effecting our planet.

       Robin Lasser, Dining at the Dump, 2002, c-print, 31 1/2 x 29 1/2″
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Recology SF Artist in Residence Exhibitions Jan 2012

Posted in Events, Recology, San Francisco by art at the dump on January 3, 2012

Friday, January 20 & Saturday, January 21, 2012

San Francisco Dump Artist in Residence Exhibitions:
Work by Terry Berlier, Donna Anderson Kam and Ethan Estess

Location:

503 Tunnel Ave. San Francisco, CA 94134
Environmental Learning Center Gallery at 401 Tunnel Ave.

Date/Time:

Friday, January 20, 2012, 5pm to 9pm
Saturday, January 21, 2012, 1pm to 5pm

Admission is free and open to the public, all ages welcome, wheelchair accessible. http://www.recologysf.com/AIR

San Francisco, CA. The Artist in Residence Program at Recology San Francisco will host an exhibition and reception for current artists-in-residence Terry Berlier, Donna Anderson Kam, and Ethan Estess on Friday, January 20, from 5-9pm and Saturday, January 21, from 1-5pm. This exhibition will be the culmination of four months of work by the artists who have scavenged materials from the dump to make art and promote recycling and reuse.
Terry Berlier: Even the Windmills are Weakening
In today’s world where hi-tech gadgets are revered an afternoon at the dump quickly puts things in perspective, making visible technology’s vulnerabilities and illustrating how easily modern inventions can become footnotes to a bygone era. While we often consider technology to be impersonal or unemotional, when faced with a pile of old typewriters or a trove of homemade electronics it’s hard not to be struck with some gut level feelings, and it seems inevitable to think about these objects’ place within our modern history. Working with the idea of the dump as both a ruin and a monument, Terry Berlier has created sculptural works that metaphorically excavate and honor these inventions and our intertwined relationships to them.It is not unusual that Berlier is interested in how history and time mediate our understanding of ingenuity. Berlier’s own ingenuity is a main component of her work, and she frequently employs mechanical or scientific methods in sculptures that are often kinetic or physically engage the viewer. Past works have addressed nuclear storage facilities, time as recorded in tree rings or core samples, as well as issues of queer identity, interpersonal relations, and how we negotiate being human in a technological age. Berlier asks, “…as innovations alter how we perceive and interact with the world, are we coming closer to or farther from understanding each other and the world around us?” Also of interest to Berlier is sound and the instruments and machines involved in its production. An underlying current of humor can also be found in her work, along with an appreciation for failed inventions and a camaraderie with those that have made them. Berlier is Assistant Professor of Sculpture at Stanford University.
Donna Anderson Kam: Beginning at the End
Looking at Donna Anderson Kam’s large-scale drawings in pastel one might not realize the source of her imagery or the process behind her work. Anderson Kam uses contemporary newspaper stories as a starting point to explore pressing social issues, especially the paradox of prosperity and sustainability. She begins by photographing young actors as they perform the stories, then uses the resulting photographs to create collaged studies that she eventually reinterprets in pastels. The final drawings are finely rendered scenes in soft tones that can be as large as four by six feet and which are left intentionally ambiguous. Negative space is as significant as the drawings themselves as it serves to isolate and accentuate, and the soft pastel tones speak to hazy memories of past events. The youth of the figures alludes to everything from fragility and peril to mischievousness and rebellion, and intimates that the issues that play out in these scenarios will continue to face future generations. She explains, “…our consumption based economy, our media influenced identity, and the unrealistic expectations of personal prosperity inspired by a constant barrage of messages from the media to consume/renew/refresh, have created a mountain of discarded commercial goods, cultural amnesia, and the many spiritually impoverished ‘consumers’ that exist today.”During her residency, Anderson Kam has used the Recology San Francisco facility as a backdrop for her actors and recognizable areas—the sculpture garden, hillside, and Public Disposal Building are all visible in her final pieces. She has also incorporated new materials into her practice including computer paper and advertising signage, and as pastels have been harder to come by, she is working with a variety of chalks and crayons. Expanding on the narrative nature of her work, she plans to present drawings in free-standing circular formats, enabling the viewer to walk around a piece, entering and exiting at any place to create their own beginning and end.
Ethan Estess: Stories from the Changing Tide
Student artist Ethan Estess uses sculpture to address environmental issues, particularly the perilous state of our oceans. As a graduate student at Stanford University, Estess is pursuing an interdisciplinary environmental science degree where he studies science communication, mechanical engineering, and studio art, with a focus on the marine environment. “If there is one thing that I have discovered by studying the ocean, it is that it is greatly imperiled – it is treated both as humanity’s waste bin and its fast food joint. As a result, most of my works tell narratives about environmental science issues, from marine plastic pollution to shark conservation. My focus is on appealing to the basic emotions of the viewer such that they can understand the scientific concepts at play and internalize the gravity of humanity’s impact on the global ecosystem.” While at Recology Estess has been drawn to the copious amount of plastics found in the Public Disposal and Recycling Area, and in particular, items that have never been used, such as cases of coffee cup lids. The works he has created from his finds should hopefully give viewers pause and prompt thinking about the daily decisions we make and their effect on the environment. Estess’s work will be on view at the Recology Environmental Learning Center at 401 Tunnel Avenue.

The Artist in Residence Program at Recology San Francisco is a one-of-a-kind program established in 1990 to encourage the conservation of natural resources and instill a greater appreciation for the environment and art in children and adults. Artists work for four months in studio space on site, use materials recovered from the Public Disposal and Recycling Area, and speak to students and the general public. Over ninety professional Bay Area artists have completed residencies. Applications are accepted annually in August.

Directions to 503 Tunnel Ave.
Directions from downtown San Francisco & East Bay
Go south on Highway 101 and exit at “Candlestick Park/Tunnel Ave.” After the stop sign, continue straight on Beatty Rd. Turn right on Tunnel Ave.

Direction from The Peninsula
Go north on Highway 101 and exit at the first “Candlestick Park” off-ramp. Stay in the left lane and take the first left toward the stop sign. Turn left onto Alanna Way and go under the freeway. At the next stop sign, turn right on Beatty Rd. Turn right on Tunnel Ave.

Public Transit
The “T” Third St. streetcar and bus lines 8x, 9, 9L, and 56 stop at Bayshore Blvd. and Arleta Ave. (three blocks away). The Caltrain “Bayshore Station” stop is directly across the street from our facility.
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San Francisco Dump’s Artist in Residence Program Announces 2012 Residency Recipients

Posted in Recology, San Francisco, You Should Know... by art at the dump on December 15, 2011
Recology San Francisco is pleased to announce recipients of artist residencies for 2012. The six selected artists are Beau Buck, Tamara Albaitis, Amy Wilson Faville, Michael Damm, Julia Goodman, and Jeff Hantman.The Artist in Residence Program at Recology San Francisco is a one-of-a-kind initiative started in 1990 to support Bay Area artists while teaching children and adults about recycling and resource conservation. Artists work for four months in a studio space on site and use materials recovered from the Public Disposal Area. Over ninety professional Bay Area artists have completed residencies. Applications are accepted annually in August.http://www.recologysf.com/AIR

Beau Buck:
Residency: February-May; Exhibition reception: May 18 and 19, 2012

Beau Buck’s work is shaped by a kinship with animals and a personal mythology that draws on Native North American stories and contemporary folklore. Buck has crafted headgear—often modified motorcycle helmets—to approximate the heads of horses and buffalos. In his 16mm films, people are seen wearing these costumes in scenes tinged with magic realism which blur the lines between humans and animals. During his residency, Buck will expand on previous work to create numerous life-size jackrabbits made from worn garments, old uniforms, and other textiles. Buck’s art explores what is mysterious or unknown about the animal world to prompt contemplation about our own relationships with these creatures and the greater environment. Buck will share studio space with Karrie Hovey who was awarded a 2011 residency; their joint solo exhibitions will take place in May.
Tamara Albaitis and Amy Wilson Faville
Residency: June-September; Exhibition reception: September 21 and 22, 2012

Tamara Albaitis uses technology to mimic nature through sculptural sound installations. A painter by training, Albaitis often “draws” on walls, floors, or through space with the functional speaker wires used to transmit her sounds. She is interested in environments—be they natural, constructed, or simulated—that exist in our technologically saturated world, and explores their relationships to the global ecosystem and our own psyches. While at Recology, Albaitis will make use of the ample electronics that pass through the facility, such as old computers, discarded stereos, and speaker cones from TVs. She hopes to also incorporate welded metal in her installations which will feature sounds scavenged from the facility.
Piles of discarded items in the Public Disposal and Recycling Area will be familiar to Amy Wilson Faville who for the last year has been photographing public dumping sites in her Oakland neighborhood as sources for her paintings. In her work chaotic piles become tableaus that suggest complicated personal narratives, while also serving as metaphors for economic and societal collapse. Previous collage work has been based on photos Wilson Faville has taken of shopping carts used by the homeless. The patterning of the paper and fabrics that Wilson Faville brings together in abstract arrangements in these works are suggestive of quilts or curtains and allude to issues of home and security. During her residency Wilson Faville will photograph piles of refuse and continue with her 2-D collage work, making images of discarded material from discarded material.
Michael Damm, Julia Goodman, and Jeff Hantman
Residency: October-January; Exhibition reception: January 25 and 26, 2013

Video and installation artist Michael Damm will use the Recology Environmental Learning Center as both studio and gallery during his residency. Expanding on a body of site specific installations that present video works as unexpected, large-scale projections in urban traffic corridors, Damm will use the building’s windows to project images viewable to those passing on the street or riding Caltrain. For another work, Damm, who is interested in reframing experiences of the ordinary to induce new perceptions or alter habitual ways of seeing, will use a macro lens to film objects found in the Public Disposal and Recycling Area. His images will explore the idea of refuse as a landscape, and survey the waste stream as an index of material culture.


Julia Goodman uses paper and fabric pulp to create sculptural forms that conceptually relate back to their source materials and the items used in their making. Previous work includes a series of public wheatpastings using handmade paper, and the recreation of her parents’ love letters using their old bed sheets for pulp. Process and the history of papermaking are an integral part of Goodman’s work, and she has incorporated these elements into performative events that include either making paper or papyrus. Goodman will construct molds and drying systems from found materials during her residency, and will look for a variety of paper and fabrics from which to make her pulp. She will incorporate hand-carved marks and preexisting textures into her pieces, and plans to exhibit the objects used to make her paper as sculptural armatures or foundations for the finished works.
Jeff Hantman combines painting and printmaking in three-dimensional pieces on wood that bow or curve out from the wall. Hantman’s background as a woodworker informs his process which requires bending and shaping found materials, especially plywood, to create the rounded forms he uses as his canvases. Signs of wear, stains, paint, and other remnants of the wood’s previous use are incorporated into the works that are influenced by deteriorating structures such as old barns or water towers, as well as personal memories of places and events. Hantman, who normally scavenges for the wood he uses, looks forward to the abundance of items available at the dump and hopes to create larger-scale pieces and incorporate new materials, such as discarded household belongings, that are arched or can hold a curve.
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Fall 2011 AIR Show at the San Francisco Dump

Posted in Events, Recology, San Francisco, You Should Know... by art at the dump on August 30, 2011

Friday, September 23 & Saturday, September 24, 2011

San Francisco Dump Artist in Residence Exhibitions:
Work by Lauren DiCioccio, Abel Rodriguez and Kaiya Rainbolt

Location:
503 Tunnel Ave. San Francisco, CA 94134
Environmental Learning Center Gallery at 401 Tunnel Ave.

Date/Time:
Friday, September 23, 2011, 5pm to 9pm
Saturday, September 24, 2011, 1pm to 5pm

Admission is free and open to the public, all ages welcome, wheelchair accessible.

http://www.recologysf.com/AIR

The Artist in Residence Program at Recology San Francisco will host an exhibition and reception for current artists-in-residence Lauren DiCioccio, Abel Rodriguez, and Kaiya Rainbolt on Friday, September 23rd, from 5-9pm and Saturday, September 24, from 1-5pm. This exhibition will be the culmination of four months of work by the artists who have scavenged materials from the dump to make art and promote recycling and reuse.
  Lauren DiCioccio: Who Can I Turn To (When Nobody Needs Me)
Lauren DiCioccio makes meticulously crafted artworks that replicate everyday objects. She describes her subject matter as things that are “obsolescing,” such as newspapers or handwritten letters—forms increasingly abandoned in favor of more expedient and impersonal technological options. With a desire to memorialize these items, she has chosen the methodical and perhaps also obsolescing methods of sewing and embroidery, and has used scavenged fabrics and threads while at the dump.DiCioccio draws parallels between her work and 17th century Dutch and Flemish still life vanitas paintings which present mundane objects—an extinguished candle, a fading flower—as symbols for death and the brevity of life. Similarly, DiCioccio’s interpretations of objects found in the dump, such as travel postcards, books, and record albums, speak to the transitory nature of 20th century pleasures. Other works include incandescent light bulbs, sheet music, greeting cards, as well as fabricated dead mice and rabbits. Works are similar in scale to their source objects and threads are left dangling in the detailed embroidery, as if the artworks were slowly unraveling before us. DiCioccio received her BA at Colgate University and is represented by Jack Fischer Gallery in San Francisco.
  Abel Rodriguez: Out of Sight, Out of Mind
In large-scale collages and mixed-media sculpture, Abel Rodriguez explores exploding and imploding forms, progress and destruction, and how the perception of these conditions can be shaped by what is visible or hidden. Rodriguez, who received his MFA at Yale in painting and printmaking, is interested in the sculptural aspect of painting, describing his 2-D collages, which incorporate found photos, negative space from magazine advertisements, and drawings, as “skins” for his sculptural forms. Some sculptures are free-standing, while others maintain a relationship with the wall and their painterly lineage. Collages and sculptures are exhibited together as pairs, bound visually through perspective, line, and color.Implicit in Rodriguez’s work is the idea of mutability. He describes fragments of objects as “words that can be negotiated, arranged and rearranged into endless visual and communicative statements,” and he has approached the things he has gathered from the Public Disposal and Recycling Area in this manner, deconstructing and reconstructing, ordering and shifting. Rodriguez embraces change through his working process as well as through his use of materials, such as tape, which allows for quick modification and restructuring. Even finalized sculptural forms still express the potential to shift, morph, or be perceived in new contexts.
  Kaiya Rainbolt: Upscale
During her residency, student artist Kaiya Rainbolt has brought together her skills as a sculptor and metalsmith to create sculptural works of oversized earrings, necklaces, and lockets. Using scavenged materials such as plastic light fixture panels for gemstones and toilet floats for pearls, Rainbolt has made works that are both surprising and beautiful.Rainbolt’s sculptures explore ideas about fine jewelry’s cultural role as a symbol of affluence, and put this in contrast with other less flashy definitions of accomplishment or happiness. The scale of the pieces, such as a five foot tall diamond earring, makes them the ultimate status symbols, yet on closer examination there is more going on below the surface of these works. Each sculpture has been crafted in a way that allows access to the interior of the piece where one can see scavenged mementos and items symbolic of what Rainbolt views as truly valuable. By juxtaposing these giant gems with things that may have had greater emotional meaning for those that once possessed them, the works question what is of importance in our day to day lives. Rainbolt is currently a student at San Francisco City College.
   
   
Remi Rubel’s Crazy Quilt and the Environmental Learning Center Garden
During the exhibition receptions we will also be celebrating the completion of two summer projects. Located outside 501 Tunnel Avenue next to the art studio, Remi Rubel’s bottle cap mural, Crazy Quilt, has been a fixture of our facility since she made it during her residency in 1991. It was recently returned to its original vibrancy by the artist and program staff, and we are happy to have it back. Also to be celebrated will be the Environmental Learning Center garden, located in front of 401 Tunnel Avenue. The garden was planted with native species this summer in collaboration with neighborhood volunteers and the Garden for the Environment. Come visit and meet the artists and volunteers who made these projects possible.

The Artist in Residence Program at Recology San Francisco is a one-of-a-kind program established in 1990 to encourage the conservation of natural resources and instill a greater appreciation for the environment and art in children and adults. Artists work for four months in studio space on site, use materials recovered from the Public Disposal and Recycling Area, and speak to students and the general public. Over one-hundred Bay Area artists have completed residencies. Applications are accepted annually in August.

Directions to 503 Tunnel Ave.
Directions from downtown San Francisco & East Bay
Go south on Highway 101 and exit at “Candlestick Park/Tunnel Ave.” After the stop sign, continue straight on Beatty Rd. which ends at Tunnel Ave. Turn right on Tunnel Ave.

Direction from The Peninsula
Go north on Highway 101 and exit at the first “Candlestick Park” off-ramp. Stay in the left lane and take the first left toward the stop sign. Turn left onto Alanna Way and go under the freeway. At the next stop sign, turn right on Beatty Rd. which ends at Tunnel Ave. Turn right on Tunnel Ave.

Public Transit
The “T” Third St. streetcar and bus lines 8x, 9, 9L, and 56 stop at Bayshore Blvd. and Arleta Ave. (three blocks away). The Caltrain “Bayshore Station” stop is directly across the street from our facility.
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2011 San Francisco Carnaval Parade

Posted in Events, Recology, San Francisco, You Should Know... by art at the dump on June 1, 2011

Photos from the May 29th Carnaval Parade in San Francisco‘s Mission District. The Recology contingent included our award winning drill team and volunteers wearing costumes made by Recology San Francisco former artist-in-residence, Daphne Ruff. A beautiful day in San Francisco and a wonderful event!
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San Francisco Dump Artist in Residence Exhibitions: Work by Scott Kildall, Niki Ulehla and Alex Nichols

Posted in Recology, Recycling, San Francisco, You Should Know... by art at the dump on May 13, 2011

Scott Kildall

The Artist in Residence Program at Recology San Francisco will host an exhibition and reception for current artists-in-residence Scott Kildall, Niki Ulehla, and Alex Nichols on Friday, May 20th, from 5-9pm and Saturday, May 21, from 1-5pm. This exhibition will be the culmination of four months of work by the artists who have scavenged materials from the dump to make art and promote recycling and reuse.

Scott Kildall, 2049: Kildall assumes the role of a prospector from the future who excavates landfills to build inventions that aid in his survival. Niki Ulehla, The Inferno: An interpretation of Dante’s Inferno told through handmade marionettes. Alex Nichols, Transfer Station: Nichols has created sculptural works as “physical poetry” through the reappropriation of discarded items.

Niki Ulehla

The Artist in Residence Program at Recology San Francisco is a one-of-a-kind program started in 1990 to encourage people to conserve natural resources and instill a greater appreciation for the environment and art in children and adults. Artists work for four months in studio space on site, use materials recovered from the Public Disposal and Recycling Area, and speak to students and the general public. Over eighty professional Bay Area artists have completed residencies, and applications are accepted annually in August.

Alex Nichols

Details-

May 20, 2011 5-9pm
May 21, 2011 1-5pm

Recology Art Studio: 503 Tunnel Ave. San Francisco, CA 94134

(415) 330-0747 art@recology.com  www.recology.com/air

This event is free to the public and wheelchair accessible.

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Recycled Resources for Artists

Posted in Recology, Recycling, Waste Reduction, You Should Know... by art at the dump on May 4, 2011

One of the missions of the Artist in Residence Program at Recology is to encourage children and adults to think about how they might use recycled materials in their own lives. Artists-in-residence use materials gleaned from our public disposal area, where all materials are hand-sorted for recycling, and a recent Recology Art Lab has enabled elementary school students to also make art from recycled materials. Here in the Bay Area there are many great sources of recycled materials. While many people are familiar with Building Resources and Urban Ore which provide recycled building materials and larger second-hand objects such as furniture, there are also organizations that focus on providing recycled materials for craft and art projects.

Scrap in San Francisco and the East Bay Depot for Creative Reuse in Oakland are two such organizations that see a steady stream of eclectic materials pass through their doors and into the hands of creative folks. Both these organizations offer special curriculum or workshops for school teachers as well as discounts, since many California state teachers are now responsible for buying their own art supplies. Scrap and the East Bay Depot for Creative Reuse are also non-profits and excellent places to donate reusable art and craft supplies and know that your items will be put to good use.

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Art at the Dump!

Posted in Events, Recology, San Francisco by art at the dump on December 29, 2010

Friday, January 21 & Saturday, January 22, 2011

San Francisco Dump Artist in Residence Exhibitions:
Work by Ferris Plock, Suzanne Husky, and Bill Russell

Location:
503 Tunnel Ave. San Francisco, CA 94134
Environmental Learning Center Gallery at 401 Tunnel Ave.

Date/Time:
Friday, January 21, 2011, 5pm to 9pm
Saturday, January 22, 2011, 1pm to 5pm

Cost:
Free

http://www.recologysf.com/AIR

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The Artist in Residence Program at Recology San Francisco will host an exhibition and reception for current artists-in-residence Ferris Plock, Suzanne Husky, and Bill Russell on Friday, January 21st, from 5-9pm and Saturday, January 22, from 1-5pm. This exhibition will be the culmination of four months of work by the artists who have scavenged materials from the dump to make art and promote recycling and reuse. Friday night’s exhibition reception will include food provided by the El Tonayense Taco Truck.
ferris.jpg Ferris Plock: Hunt and Gather
While at the dump, painter and character illustrator Ferris Plock has continued to build on a recent body of work that incorporates elements of Japanese ukiyo-e prints and iconography from world religions with other motifs that hold personal significance. Meticulously rendered paintings simultaneously contain an elegant reverence and Plock’s characteristic humor and playfulness. Much like Plock, who had to proverbially hunt and gather at the dump for materials to make his paintings, figures in the works are engaged in their own mythic quests. Plock has used scavenged and recycled paints on panels crafted from old shipping crates and other wood retrieved from the Public Disposal and Recycling Area. Background patterns were created from stenciling found materials such as planter trays and milk crates, and found fabrics and papers served as sources of inspiration for the colorful patterns that appear in the garments of his characters. Plock’s work has been exhibited widely and included in exhibitions in Tokyo, London, and Paris. His experiences while at the dump have been documented on Fecalface.com where he is serving as a guest blogger.
susanne.jpg Suzanne Husky: Sleeper Cell Raising
The wealth of materials available to Suzanne Husky during her residency at the dump enabled her to construct small habitable structures that had previously existed only in her drawings. The artist’s intention for these forms, which appear like tiny homes for characters in a folk tale, is that they be placed in a forest or garden, potentially to be slept in. While the shelters in nature-inspired shapes such as a porcupine convey a humorous charm, Husky’s description of them as “sleeper cells” alludes to more sober concerns—people living off the grid in anticipation of an environmental apocalypse, ecoterrorists mobilizing in forest hide-outs, and a metaphorical rising up of nature against encroaching industry and technology. Structures are furnished with the cast-offs of consumer culture and are even on wheels, allowing for the easy deployment of this woodland force. Husky received her MFA in 2000 from the Beaux-Arts School in Bordeaux, France. She has had residencies at the deYoung Museum in San Francisco and at Pollen Monflanquin near Bordeaux; her work will be included in Bay Area Now 6 at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in 2011.
russell_postcard2.jpg Bill Russell: Recology Sketchbook: Portraits and Stories
Visual journalist Bill Russell spent his four-month residency getting to know the people who work at Recology and metaphorically scavenging for their stories. He drew and interviewed employees and produced a book, Recology Sketchbook: Portraits and Stories, which features these biographical profiles presented in the form of an artist’s sketchbook. Route drivers, welders, company executives and recycling sorters are just some of the people featured in this book whose subplot is the story of San Francisco’s consumption and waste and what is required daily to manage it. For his exhibition, Russell will present prints of drawings made during his residency, many of which are included in his book. The publication will also be available for purchase. Russell has frequently documented the lives of workers, including in his Bay Folk Sketchbook which ran for two years in the San Francisco Chronicle. His monthly series on cabdrivers appeared in TODO magazine and a regular feature on chefs preparing basic recipes was included on Chow.com. He is currently working on a book about Civil War reenactors.

The Artist in Residence Program at Recology San Francisco is a one-of-a-kind program started in 1990 to encourage people to conserve natural resources and instill a greater appreciation for the environment and art in children and adults. Artists work for four months in studio space on site, use materials recovered from the Public Disposal and Recycling Area, and speak to students and the general public. Over eighty professional Bay Area artists have completed residencies, and applications are accepted annually in August.

Directions to 503 Tunnel Ave.
Directions from downtown San Francisco & East Bay
Go south on Highway 101 and get off at the exit marked “Candlestick Park / Tunnel Ave”. After the stop sign, continue forward on Beatty Road until you reach Tunnel Avenue. Turn right on Tunnel Avenue. Go a half block to 503 Tunnel Avenue.

Directions from Cow Palace
Go east on Geneva Avenue. until you reach Bayshore Boulevard. Turn left on Bayshore Boulevard. After a few blocks, turn right on Blanken Avenue, then a quick right turn on Tunnel Avenue. 503 Tunnel Avenue will be on the left.

Direction from The Peninsula
Go north on Highway 101 and get off at the “Candlestick Park” exit (this is the first Candlestick Park exit). Turn left at the first stop sign you see on to Alanna Way and go under the freeway. The road curves before you reach the second stop sign. Turn right on Beatty and continue to the end of the road. Turn right on Tunnel Avenue. Go a half block to 503 Tunnel Avenue.

Parking
Street parking is easy on Saturday unless there is a football game at Candlestick Park.

Public Transit
The T-Third streetcar and bus lines 9. (The 9 bus stops at Bayshore Boulevard and Arleta Avenue, three blocks away from our location.) There is also a Caltrain Station right across the street from us. It’s called the Bayshore Station. For a Caltrain schedule, please visit Caltrain for a train schedule.
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“Art at the Dump” book available online!

Posted in Recology, San Francisco, You Should Know... by art at the dump on August 11, 2010

The publication, Art at the Dump: The Artist in Residence Program and Environmental Learning Center at Recology is now available for purchase online.

The book documents the history of this one-of-a-kind program that enables artists to work with materials taken directly from the city of San Francisco’s waste stream, while teaching the public about recycling and resource conservation.

Art at the Dump presents profiles of the seventy-eight artists who have participated in the program since its founding, and provides reproductions of their artwork. 90 pages, full color.

The Artist in Resi…
By Recology

Click here to preview and purchase Art at the Dump!

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“Art at the Dump” Exhibition Reception Brings Out More Than 600 People

Posted in Events, Recology, San Francisco by art at the dump on August 5, 2010

More than 600 people attended the opening reception for the exhibition, Art at the Dump: Twenty Years of the Artist in Residence Program at Recology at Intersection 5M. The exhibition, which runs through September 25th, is co-sponsored by Recology, Intersection for the Arts, and Hub Bay Area, and features a selection of work made from recycled materials by artists during their residencies at Recology San Francisco. For more information, hours, and directions: http://www.recology.com/AIR
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