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Pollen Balls Project (installation view)
Presidio Habitats

Amy Lambert

Pollen Balls Project

Digger bees have little cultural significance in our society: there are no stories, songs, or myths about these unfamiliar insects. Using methodologies that rely on community participation, artist and biologist Amy Lambert generated data on the bees in the Presidio and concurrently brought the digger bee into our consciousness. These newly created “stories” about the bees were manifest in the inscribed wax pollen ball forms that Lambert situated among plants at the Presidio’s native plant nursery.

  • Amy Lambert, Pollen Balls Project, 2010 (detail); photo: Monique Deschaines
    Amy Lambert, Pollen Balls Project, 2010 (installation view); photo: Monique Deschaines
    Amy Lambert, Pollen Balls Project, 2010 (installation view); photo: Monique Deschaines
    Amy Lambert, Pollen Balls Project, 2010 (detail); photo: Monique Deschaines
    Amy Lambert, Pollen Balls Project, 2010 (installation view); photo: Monique Deschaines
    Amy Lambert, Pollen Balls Project, 2010 (installation view); photo: Monique Deschaines
    Amy Lambert, Pollen Balls Project, 2010 (detail); photo: Monique Deschaines
    Amy Lambert, Pollen Balls Project, 2010 (installation view); photo: Monique Deschaines
    Amy Lambert, Pollen Balls Project, 2010 (installation view); photo: Monique Deschaines
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Amy Lambert
Amy LambertAmerican, born 1972

Amy Lambert is an environmental artist and restoration ecologist. In addition to carrying out ongoing field research in ecology, Lambert teaches at the University of Washington, where students in her art and restoration classes reclaim wilderness areas from invasive species and create artwork with the waste materials produced in order to visually engage the public in habitat restoration activity.

Top: Amy Lambert, Pollen Balls Project, 2010 (installation view); photo: Monique Deschaines

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Sanctuary Salon (January 26, 2018)

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  • This is just one of the 92,829 postcards sent from Alcatraz to prisoners of conscience all over the world for @aiww’s “Yours Truly” installation. A book chronicling “Yours Truly” — from Weiwei’s inspiration for the work to the lives of five of the postcard recipients — titled “Ai Weiwei: Yours Truly — Art, Human Rights, and the Power of Writing a Letter” is out now. It even includes four pre-addressed, tear-out postcards so that readers can participate as well. Follow the link in our profile to read an interview with the book’s editor, David Spalding, and learn more. #ArtAboutPlace
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  • Sharing a post from @alexiawebster highlighting a portrait from her ongoing Street Studio series. We’re including the full caption of Alexia’s original post below — please take a moment to read it. #PublicArt provides an important platform for dialogue around difficult issues, and we applaud artists like Alexia for helping us to see and understand them, and doing so in a way that celebrates the beauty of our shared humanity. . . . . Nyaloki Mayor, 13, poses with flowers in a United Nations IDP camp in Juba, South Sudan. In May 2016, with the amazing support of the @theiwmf , I travelled to Juba, South Sudan. During the trip we visited an IDP camp of South Sudanese that had been displaced by on-going conflicts and we created a Street Studio in the camp as part of my long term project. The Street Studio sets up portrait studios on street corners and public spaces in areas of uncertainty, and offers free printed portraits to any one passing by. This series was recently defaced by vandals who drew swastikas and scratched out the faces of people of colour during a public exhibition with @festivalpilours Saint Gilles Croix de Vie in the South of France. I hope this won't be an opportunity for fear and racism to have another platform but rather highlight the need for public art and how important the debates it raises are.
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