A watershed sculpture in Adobe Creek, Los Altos, California. A collaboration between Daniel McCormick & Mary O'Brien.
Thanks to Gary Hedden for getting into the creek to get this image.
Methods, Materials & Iterations of Ecological Art
Two new shows this Spring. Materials and Methods: Ecological Art in Practice at the David Brower Center in Berkeley CA.
and...
Charlotte Takes Note
Thanks to Jeff Shiner/The Charlotte Observer for the pictures that accompanied this recent newspaper article.
Thread Trail Installation in Charlotte, NC
The latest installation is sited at the newly established Carolina Thread Trail in downtown Charlotte, North Carolina. On September 15th a crowd gathered for the groundbreaking at the edge of Little Sugar Creek near the Charlotte Nature Museum in Freedom Park.
For more information see the Creating a Thread blog.
A unique partnership between Catawba Lands Conservancy, the Carolina Thread Trail, Mecklenburg County Park and Recreation, the McColl Center for Visual Art, the Charlotte Nature Museum, and the involvment of local volunteers and merchants is helping make this project possible.
A unique partnership between Catawba Lands Conservancy, the Carolina Thread Trail, Mecklenburg County Park and Recreation, the McColl Center for Visual Art, the Charlotte Nature Museum, and the involvment of local volunteers and merchants is helping make this project possible.
Watch "Watershed Sculptures" on Make TV
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 willo
w 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." 
"Journey upstream with environmental artist Dan McCormick, a maker who crafts intricate watershed sculptures out of woven willo
w 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.
The sculpture winds through a low swale feeding the John West Fork of Olema Creek.
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