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DWELLING:
Memory, Architecture and Place
EXTENDED until November 30th, 2006.
SPECIAL
EVENTS AND TOURS
June 24: Opening
Reception
Join us for a festive opening celebration. Special
events include a walk with participating artists and scholar in residence
Elise Ciregna and performances of The Water Project. The Water
Project is a powerful blend of ritual, myth, visual art and dance
created by Michael Dowling (artist and director of Medicine
Wheel) and Christine Bennett (artistic director of Christine Bennett
Dance Co.).
Walking
Tours with Scholars and Participating Artists
Join scholars
and participating artists for tours exploring Victorian architecture and
fashion, the nature of neighborhoods and the meaning of memorials, and
the way contemporary artists respond the landscape and history of Forest
Hills.
Rain or shine. Admission $8.
- On Sunday,
July 16 at 4pm, Anthony Sammarco, Historian and Trustee leads
a tour which will focus on the architects and architecture of Forest
Hills Cemetery. Dwelling artists joining Anthony Sammarco are: Nadya
Volicer, who evokes a Victorian parlor with a lush oriental
carpet fashioned from scraps of salvaged wood from demolished homes;
Michael Beatty and Mike Newby, who designed two elegant
sculptural birdhouses based on Victorian symbols and Gothic Revival
architecture; and Joan Goody and Lesley Davison, who
constructed an open pavilion for contemplation in a tranquil pine forest.
- On Sunday,
August 13 at 4pm, Cultural historian Elise Ciregna leads a
tour of sculpture by well known 19th century masters (Daniel Chester
French and Martin Milmore) and vernacular monuments created by accomplished
stone carvers. Dwelling artists joining Elise Cirgna are: Jim
Coates, whose Sunflower House is built from branches gathered
in the woods and surrounded by a colorful living garden; Robert
Gilmore and Sarah Walker, whose Living Room is constructed with four walls of lush vines, open to the sky; and Andrea
Thompson, whose piece Knock on Wood features a variety of elegant
doorknockers mounted on resonant posts, offering a simple ritual to
reach the dead with a series of sounds.
- On Sunday,
September 10 at 4pm, social hisorian Dee Morris leads a tour of
Forest Hills, illuminating the ways that people of the Victorian era
designed and furnished this grand landscape to feel like a familiar
(and elegant) home. Through ornate monuments and domestic details
– the family bible, curtains and upholstry, even faithful pets represented in stone – they showed off their affluence
and good taste. Dwelling artists joining Dee Morris are: Halsey Burgund,
whose soundscapes are created using music and the voices of Forest Hills
Cemetery's staff and visitors; Andrea Thompson,
whose piece Knock on Wood features a variety of elegant doorknockers
mounted on resonant posts, offering a simple ritual to reach the dead
with a series of sounds; and Michael Beatty and Mike Newby's
Gothic Revival birdhouse and Burning Urn.
- On Sunday,
October 1 at 2pm, Cultural historian Elise Ciregna leads a tour
of sculpture by well known 19th century masters (Daniel Chester French
and Martin Milmore) and vernacular monuments created by accomplished
stone carvers. Dwelling artists joining Elise Cirgna are: Halsey
Burgund, who composed a sound piece combining music and the voices
of Forest Hills Cemetery's staff and visitors; and Adam Frelin,
who has constructed an ethereal headstone made of mirrors.
For more
information on actiivities at Forest Hills visit our calendar
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