Announcing the First “Hanging Gardens, Woven Fences” Project for 2nd Annual Grand Avenue Festival
July 15, 2010 by admin
Filed under Upcoming Events
Photo: Example of a Trash Bag Vertical Garden from www.lushe.com
CALLING ANYONE WITH OR WITHOUT A GREEN THUMB TO CREATE FANTASY GARDENS ALONG GRAND AVENUE FOR SEPTEMBER FESTIVAL
As part of this year’s upcoming 2nd Annual Grand Avenue Festival, slated to take place all day on September 25th, the Kooky Krafts Shop will be hosting a “Hanging Gardens, Woven Fences” project along Lower Grand Avenue. The $15 entry fee will be donated in its entirety to the Grand Avenue Merchants’ Association.
Hanging Gardens: This component of the project will utilize existing trees along the street for installing temporary “guerilla gardens” which can be real or imagined. In other words, they can consist of actual living garden components or visual gardens created out of non-living materials, or a combination of both. Gardens can be hung from branches or wrapped around trunks in a non-invasive fashion (i.e without damaging the tree). Participants are encouraged to use recycled or biodegradable materials whenever possible.
Photo: Urban Garden on a Chain Link Fence www.lushe.com
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Woven Fences: The woven fence component of this project can be something actually woven through a fence, attached along the top of a fence, or created in advance and attached to a woven, concrete, wooden or wrought iron fence surface. Again, recycled materials are encouraged. Care must be taken not to damage the fence surface being decorated. All materials must be removed by the participant at the festival’s end (within 48 hours) unless the property owner expresses the wish to have it remain.
Artists/fabricators will be paired with property owners who would like to have projects installed on their trees or fences, with an emphasis on those that line Grand Avenue. A map of projects and participants will be provided to festival-goers. Participants are responsible for their own set up and break down at the end of the project.
If you are interested in participating, please email Beatrice Moore at muppetsrealmom@earthlink.net with a basic concept of your project, plus your name (or group name), address, email, and phone number. This information will be used to pair artists with property owners and the proper fence or tree for your particular project. Projects would need to be installed the day before, or early morning, on event day. For more information contact Beatrice Moore at 602.391.4016. Concepts can be mailed or delivered to Kooky Krafts Shop, 1500 Grand Avenue, Phoenix, AZ, 85007.
Photo: Examples of upside down gardening from Oryana Coop
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ABOUT KOOKY KRAFTS SHOP
The Kooky Krafts Shop was opened in the Fall of 2009 and specializes in “queer, quirky, fun and fabulous” crafts made by local artists and crafters. The shop also carries quirky vintage crafts and interesting, hard-to-find craft supplies. The store is located on the corner of Grand and 15th Avenue, on Grand’s most eclectic corner next to Bikini Lounge, Sweets & Beats, and The Trunk Space and is in the heart of the Lower Grand Avenue arts and small business district.
ABOUT THE GRAND AVENUE FESTIVAL
The annual Grand Avenue Festival celebrates the unusual history of this historic street and the small businesses, arts, and interesting adaptive re-use projects that line this angled corridor to downtown Phoenix. The festival highlights adaptive re-use of commercial buildings, neighborhood sustainability, and recycling – while showcasing the one-of-a-kind small businesses and art venues that populate Grand Avenue and the vicinity. There will be tours of historic and hybrid commercial adaptive re-use projects; art exhibits; performances; installations; fashion shows; music; and merchandise that relate to the festival theme. For more info about the festival contact GrandAvePhoenix@gmail.com.
