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A selection of sculptures from 2013–2018
- in • ter • stice, 2018, found rocking chairs, cast iron, canvas
- Keepsaker, 2018, polycarbonate, fiberglass, mylar blankets, led lights
- de-fence, 2017, barbed, galvanized, and annealed wire, bamboo
- Flux Migration, 2016, altered heirloom chair, found doors, wood, mirror, paint. Photo Credit: Manon Wada, Thomas Schumake, Cris Matos, Manon Wada
- Aligning Elevation, 2016, altered heirloom chairs, fabricated ladders, stilts, paint. Photo Credit: Manon Wada, Reiko Fujii, Reiko Fujii, Manon Wada
- Thirsty Ghosts, 2015, heirloom chair, paint, treated bottles, led lights, fabric, sand. Photo Credit: Reiko Fujii, Reiko Fujii, Manon Wada
- With an ear to the page of the book, 2014, carved Carrara marble
- Burning Both Ends, 2013, light bulb, cast candle, Photo Credit: Marilyn Bogerd
- It Is Not, 2013, encaustic digital photographs. Photo Credit: Marilyn Bogerd
HEARTH Community Art Garden Project engages students from public elementary schools in an interdisciplinary study re-envisioning the urban landscape. The curriculum encompasses research of local natural and urban history through presentations from professionals, hands-on activities, and field studies off campus.
In the studio art making portion, the group collaboratively brainstorms and then students draft renderings of dream houses with roof gardens. Each student is the architect and builder of their own house. At the end of the study, there is an art opening to share the work with the larger school community.
The students keep their own smaller planter while larger planters that combine their designs together are fabricated and installed at the school. Altogether they create a small-scale village with rooftop gardens that continue to serve as a garden to grow food and promote healthy living.
- The vision of this project is to engage in research for a sustainable future living in harmony with nature and the urban landscape, with each other and our communities at large
- The intent of this holistic, interdisciplinary project is to build and connect communities together through a study of the local, natural and urban environments and by utilizing art as a tool for social change and justice
Manon Bogerd Wada, Project Founder & Director
HEARTH Residencies at Lincoln Elementary and Bridges Academy at Melrose with installation in Laney College’s Edible Garden in Oakland, California, were funded by Open Circle Foundation and sponsored by ArtSeed.
This sculptural cemetery of clear-cut trees was made in memory of our fast disappearing old growth forests. The epitaphs on the tree stumps composed part of a larger co-authored collection of text. These cross-sections featured segments of writing collected from my community, which were reflections and visions of what they leave behind when they depart. Audience members were invited to print these tree stump stamps and take the messages with them.
–Manon Bogerd Wada
Locations: CCA Center Gallery, Thoreau Center for Sustainability, Modern Eden Gallery, Groove 11
When I met Manon it was on a roof, which naturally led to elevated conversations. Our subsequent nine month long collaboration helped perfect this new ecological cement and create her beautiful array of tree forms. The cement is formed from post-industrial waste, fashioned in this case into a clay-like body, pigmented with natural rock powders. The debut of this new cement is destined to shape more than just forms, but also form attitudes about what we leave behind as a society and how we can build, like nature, with what is available and abundant.
–Don McPherson, PhD
President, Bay Glass Research, Inc.
