Current and Upcoming Exhibitions
BLOOM: THE ELEPHANT BED
A site-specific art installation by John Grade
November 14, 2009- April 10, 2010
One of my goals with the installation of Bloom is to employ scale so that we can tangibly encase ourselves within a form inspired by the shell of a coccolithiphore (by walking under and inside one of the sculptures). I am interested in impermanence, at directing our attention to what is compelling within a state of decay or disintegration.
—John Grade
Grade Installation Procession and Workshop
Saturday, April 10, 2009
Whatcom Museum Lightcatcher Building, 250 Flora Street
Procession is free/ Workshop is included with admission
Join in the last stage of John Grade’s installation Bloom: The Elephant Bed . Make your own lantern inspired by Grade’s sculptures in the FIG. Everyone is invited to participate in the procession of Grade’s large-scale sculptures and witness as the sculptures dissolve into Bellingham Bay.
12:00-5:00 p.m.: Paper lantern workshop in the FIG
2:30 p.m.: Procession of sculptures to Bellingham Bay begins in front of the Lightcatcher building and will proceed through Maritime Heritage Park to Central Avenue. If it is raining, we will watch the sculptures dissolve before our eyes in the Lightcatcher courtyard.
John Grade
BLOOM: The Elephant Bed, 2009
