Mile-High Musings on Arts, Culture, Creativity and Philanthropy

A few months ago I  did an interview for the " One Day in Denver " film project that the Bonfils-Stanton Foundation supported. This is part of a larger One Day on Earth project, that on April 26 organized filmmakers in 11 cities to capture the issues and essence of their city over a 24 hour period ( "Your Day. Your City. Your Future "). Have no idea how much if any of this footage will make it into the final film - there will be individual films for each city, as well as an edited feature-length film that will weave together all 11 cities. But I thought I would share this footage because it may help explain my passion for Denver and its cultural community!

Andrea Reynosa’s “John Street Pasture,” a public project at 1 John Street in Dumbo, Brooklyn, in collaboration with Brooklyn Grange, Alloy, & Smack Mellon (photograph by Etienne Frossard, courtesy of Smack Mellon) Since I have written recently ( here ) about the many artists working at the intersection of art, science and nature, could not resist sharing this recent post from Hyperallergic about a new show and installation organized by Smack Mellon in Brooklyn's DUMBO of artists exploring urban agriculture and sustainability issues - FOODshed: Agriculture and Art in Action . The project illustrated above - which is part of that group show - is also intended to address soil remediation on this site, which is something Mel Chin has addressed in his work for years, from Revival Field in 1990 through the Walker Art Center, to more recently Operation Paydirt in New Orleans. Brooklyn (natch) even has an organization called the Center for Strategic Art and Agriculture...