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Gleaning At The City Dump #!

4/9/2012

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I applied for and received an art grant (along with four other local artists) a few weeks ago.  The grant pays us each a stipend, and allows us to glean materials from Portland’s Metro Central Station (aka “the dump”) for six months.  We are each required to create at least ten pieces of art from the materials that we find.  Our work will be shown at a group show at a local gallery (Disjecta) in September 2012.  After the application process and interviews, the five chosen artists met for the first time in mid March to review all procedures and safety issues relating to our new “gleaning” jobs in the bay...that area where the trash is off-loaded on a continual basis each day.

You can get a quick look at all the artists here who are involved with this year's gleaning project. 

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First day on the job...me in the yellow hat finding my way around the work area.  


On one of our first days, someone had dropped off one of those old player pianos, which was moved over to our work area to tear apart for parts...great fun !!
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I managed to pull (yank, cut, rip) off a number of pieces that are going to be quite useful:

Other First Finds...Little Treasures Everywhere!

The First Piece

I've completed the first piece using an old box, maps from vintage encyclopedias, pieces from the player piano and glass:
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Lori A Burek
4/12/2012 02:14:55 am

Wow - how cool and your getting money for this too? It looks like you have an interesting dump is this just the selvage area?

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Joan aka Mad Bird Designs UK
4/16/2012 05:17:01 pm

Hi Greg Great news - hope you are going to use some of the UK material in these works. Just found your latest art on Cloth Paper Scissors site! I'm going to pitch this idea to the local Council here in the UK, hope you don't mind? Joan

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8/15/2012 05:55:01 pm

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