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Arte Útil archive nr:

008

Initiator:

Bonnie Ora Sherk

Location:

US

Category:

environment, social

Maintained by:

Bonnie Ora Sherk

Certification:

prototype

Duration:

1970 - ongoing

Bonnie Ora Sherk
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Portable Park

Description:

B. Sherk installed three Portable Parks on elevated freeways and downtown streets of San Francisco, bringing sod, palm trees, picnic tables & cows to bemused drivers & pedestrians. She created these bucolic oases as public Art, because she was not interested in just having objects confined in a museum.

Goals:

To create temporary green environments for the public to use within the city.

Beneficial Outcomes:

The citizens could enjoy the parks sitting beside the trees, the plants and on the banks

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