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Title
The Great Balboa Park Landfill Exposition of 1997: bales of hay
Creator
Weissenburger, Renee (American photographer and teacher)
Zimmerman, Cindy (American artist, sculptor, and installation artist)
Contributor
InSITE97
Date Created and/or Issued
1997
Contributing Institution
UC San Diego, Special Collections and Archives
Collection
inSite Archive: Selections
Rights Information
Unknown
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Use: This work is available from the UC San Diego Library. This digital copy of the work is intended to support research, teaching, and private study.
Description
Garden and Landscape
Sculpture and Installations
Cindy Zimmerman's Community Engagement project for inSITE97 was the development of a new park environment at the landfill adjacent to Florida Canyon in Balboa Park. Constructing the piece over several months, Zimmerman involved children and families in the creation and placement of straw bales and clay in the landfill to make labyrinths, temporary earthworks, and adobe structures. "The Great Balboa Park Landfill Exposition of 1997/La gran exposicion del relleno del Balboa Park 1997" transformed an unused and unattractive plot of land into a new community park and art installation. Zimmerman led workshops and meetings throughout the project to involve the community and collaborate with the participants to create art from organic materials. -- inSITE97
Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca)
This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 311, Folder 02, Item 425)
[Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.
Balboa Park (San Diego, Calif.)
Type
image
Format
Adobe (material); hay
Form/Genre
installations (visual works)
sculpture (visual work)
Identifier
ark:/20775/bb0514946m
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Landfills
Workshops (seminars)
Community arts projects
Renovation
Artistic collaboration
Play
Installations (visual works)
Sculpture (visual work)
Mexican-American border region
InSITE97
Place
Mexican-American border region

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