Posts Tagged ‘artist process’
Breakdown
Posted in AIGS, tagged Albatross, art blog, Art in Great Spaces, artist process, Arts Council of Snohomish County, awesome, bird bones, cardboard sculpture, eco art, Great Pacific garbage patch, green art, installation, Kevin C. McCarthy on August 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Panoramas
Posted in AIGS, tagged Albatross, art blog, Art in Great Spaces, artist process, Arts Council of Snohomish County, awesome, bird bones, cardboard sculpture, eco art, Great Pacific garbage patch, green art, installation, Kevin C. McCarthy on August 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Reception today
Posted in AIGS, tagged Albatross, art blog, Art in Great Spaces, artist process, Arts Council of Snohomish County, awesome, bird bones, cardboard sculpture, eco art, Great Pacific garbage patch, green art, installation, Kevin C. McCarthy on August 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Gyre Nest / Opening Reception: Sunday, August 9 from 12 – 4pm
2831 Wetmore, Everett Washington. (corner of Wetmore and Hewitt)
Google Map Link
August 7th / Finished!
Posted in AIGS, tagged Albatross, art blog, Art in Great Spaces, artist process, Arts Council of Snohomish County, awesome, bird bones, cardboard sculpture, eco art, Great Pacific garbage patch, green art, installation, Kevin C. McCarthy on August 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
August 6th
Posted in AIGS, tagged Albatross, art blog, Art in Great Spaces, artist process, Arts Council of Snohomish County, awesome, bird bones, cardboard sculpture, eco art, Great Pacific garbage patch, green art, installation, Kevin C. McCarthy on August 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Today’s additions: a toothbrush, a lighter and more bottle caps.
August 4th / todays links about the gyre
Posted in AIGS, tagged Albatross, art blog, Art in Great Spaces, artist process, Arts Council of Snohomish County, bird bones, cardboard sculpture, eco art, Great Pacific garbage patch, green art, Kevin C. McCarthy on August 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Both links were emailed to me today!
San Jose Mercury News / Garbage patch
Reuters / Huge plastic patch
August 3rd
Posted in AIGS, tagged Albatross, art blog, Art in Great Spaces, artist process, Arts Council of Snohomish County, awesome, bird bones, cardboard sculpture, eco art, Great Pacific garbage patch, installation, Kevin C. McCarthy on August 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Six days until the opening reception.
August 3rd / Artist Statement
Posted in AIGS, tagged Albatross, art blog, Art in Great Spaces, artist process, Arts Council of Snohomish County, awesome, bird bones, cardboard sculpture, eco art, Great Pacific garbage patch, green art, installation, Kevin C. McCarthy on August 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The inspiration for this project first began while reading about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. I discovered pictures of albatross carcasses and skeletons in nests on tiny islands and atolls in the Pacific Ocean. The birds had died from ingestion of plastic, mostly bottle caps fed by regurgitation from a parent bird. The concentration of plastic in the chest and torso of some of the birds had [...]
July 30th
Posted in AIGS, tagged Albatross, art blog, Art in Great Spaces, artist process, Arts Council of Snohomish County, awesome, bird bones, cardboard sculpture, Great Pacific garbage patch, installation, Kevin C. McCarthy on July 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
WhooHoo! The island is done. (pretty much)
July 27th
Posted in AIGS, tagged Albatross, art blog, Art in Great Spaces, artist process, Arts Council of Snohomish County, awesome, bird bones, cardboard sculpture, Great Pacific garbage patch, Kevin C. McCarthy on July 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
My new adjusted hope is to have the ALL the edge transitions by Wednesday. Then back to making bones and trash.



