Daniel McCormick

Maker TV visited my West Marin site and featured me on an episode on MAKE. http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2009/02/maker_profile_watershed_sculptures.html
"Journey upstream with environmental artist Dan McCormick, a maker who crafts intricate watershed sculptures out of woven willow branches. Dan places his eco-art in gullies and riverbanks to help reduce erosion and filter out sediment and farm fertilizers that can clog streams and suffocate spawning salmon."

100' of Diversion

Mid-July and midway through the construction of this new sculpture that will divert a large section of the runoff from the adjacent ranch. I worked again with the Marin Conservation Corps Regen Group as construction contractors.

The sculpture winds through a low swale feeding the John West Fork of Olema Creek.

Public Television Comes to John West Fork

In conjunction with a documentary on "Makers" of the Bay Area a film crew from Minnesota Public Television visited the site on Olema Creek on one of the days I was working with the service-learning group of the Marin Conservation Corps--Project Regen.

The film crew stayed with us for the day filming the installation of a new silt trap basket and then visited me in my studio at the Headlands to see how my watershed sculptures are created.

Watershed Sculpture at the Maker Faire

Thanks for all the support this weekend. And my special thanks to the pros--Phil Ross and Maria Mortati for their encouragement, inspiration and excellent logistics.

The response was overwhelming and visitors are writing their own reviews of my exhibit (see my links in the Recent Publications section on the right). Stay tuned for more updates and photos to come (we're still recovering!)

More Images and Information

Green Museum included me in their featured artists listings and included some good descriptions on my latest projects. See my listing at this link: Green Museum

There's also a case study in their Toolbox for Park and Resource Managers here: CASE STUDY

Daniel McCormick