As part of efforts to liven up Allegheny County's riverfronts, Friends of the Riverfront and PEC have embarked on the Southside Trail Green Art (08) Project with Austin Green Art. May 16-23.
Southside Trail Green Art (08)
As part of our efforts to enliven Allegheny County's riverfronts, Friends of the Riverfront and the Pennsylvania Environmental Council have embarked on the Southside Trail Green Art (08) Project with Austin Green Art. This project has installed several public art pieces along the Three Rivers Heritage Trail in addition to a piece located temporarily at REI (check out the climbing wall!!!) during Great Outdoors Week (May 16-23). The goal of this project is to get more people out onto the trails. This project is supported in part by a Seed Award from the Sprout Fund.
Come see the art along the trail!
We hope that you will take a walk, run or bike ride along the Southside portion of the Three Rivers Heritage Trail to see some of the art along the trail. Click here to see a map of the art. Please also check out this web site that was put together by the artists http://www.ecoart08.blogspot.com/. On your tour you will also see some older installations that have been along the trail for several years.
Project Partners:
Austin Green Art (www.austingreenart.org) was launched in November of 2004 to produce a temporary outdoor sculpture show. Randy Jewart took that catalyst and began forming the basis for an ongoing public art program based on engagement with environmental themes. AGA has produced dozens of public programs, with dozens of community partners with scores of artists and thousands of participants. Volunteers from the various communities we serve are instrumental to accomplishing a given project and embodying the team spirit that infuses our endeavors.
For over a decade, Friends of the Riverfront (www.friendsoftheriverfront.org) has been on the ground and in the water, working to protect and restore our region’s priceless rivers and riverfronts. We are a pioneering organization that has been involved in creating nearly all of the trails you see as you bike, hike, rollerblade or paddle along our beautiful shores. Through intense collaboration with community partners, government officials, and diverse volunteer base, our rivers and riverfronts have been transformed from industrial wastelands to international examples of environmental renewal.
The Pennsylvania Environmental Council (PEC www.pecpa.org) protects and restores the natural and built environments through innovation, collaboration, education and advocacy. PEC believes in the value of partnerships with the private sector, government, communities and individuals to improve the quality of life for all Pennsylvanians.
The Sprout Fund (www.sproutfund.org) is a nonprofit organization launched in September 2001 to support innovative ideas and grassroots community projects that are catalyzing change in Pittsburgh. Each of The Sprout Fund's programs, Seed Award and Public Art, is designed to advance a community initiative from idea through dialogue to implementation, creating a critical mass of activity for positive regional change. Sprout supports the innovative ideas of young people (18-40 years of age), thereby developing their leadership potential and increasing their level of investment in the Pittsburgh community. Young people can be effective change agents; and, by providing young people the opportunity to develop and execute their own initiatives, Sprout directly affects the landscape of tomorrow’s civic and philanthropic community. Sprout provides the resources to take the civic initiatives of young people from ideas to realities and builds the capacity of young people to leverage low-threshold capital investments into high-impact community results, which create a critical mass of activity for positive regional change. With ongoing local support and continued appreciation by the communities it serves, The Sprout Fund will continue to provide an entry point for young people to become involved and active in their communities and support projects that have the collective power to shape a new culture and vision for the region.
For more information about the Allegheny County Riverfronts Project please visit http://www.pecpa.org/node/52.