http://rebargroup.org/doxa Rebar via Blog Tue, 21 Feb 2012 05:33:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Tim Hyde, a powerful artist and dear friend of Rebar, has an opening this week in New York which you should really go see if you can. Tim created an extraordinary series of images, drawings and writing based on a particular island off the coast of California that is dear ... http://rebargroup.org/doxa/2012/02/tim-hydes-the-island-prologue-opening-at-meulensteen/ For more than a year, Rebar has been working on a monumental public art piece for Portland Tri-Met’s Clinton Street station, a stop along Portland’s new Portland-Milwaukie light rail line. The design is finalized and we are please to unveil the piece here: Named “Intersection,” the sculpture comprises repurposed surplus light ... http://rebargroup.org/doxa/2012/02/intersection-public-art-for-portlands-clinton-street-station/ Rebar's John Bela was recently in DC to be part of a session organized by the National Endownment for the Arts (NEA), City Parks Alliance, National Capital Planning Commission, and Trust for the National Mall at the National Archives. Jason Shupbach, NEA Director of Design, moderated the panel and led a discussion about ... http://rebargroup.org/doxa/2012/02/revolutionary-parks-the-future-of-open-space/ [caption id="attachment_1534" align="alignnone" width="430" caption="You can't miss the brightly colored Nomadic Grove at the entrance of San Francisco's Contemporary Jewish Museum on Mission Street between 3rd and 4th Streets."][/caption] We are just moments away from installing Nomadic Grove at the Contemporary Jewish Museum in downtown San Francisco, as part of the ... http://rebargroup.org/doxa/2012/02/nomadic-grove-construction-is-underway/ New project! Nomadic Grove, commissioned by the Contemporary Jewish Museum (CJM) in downtown San Francisco, is now under construction at the Rebar studio.  The project is an experimental outdoor landscape sited at the museum's entrance and consisting of an archipelago of gem-like seating islands, each holding a specimen tree at its ... http://rebargroup.org/doxa/2012/01/commission-begins-for-contemporary-jewish-museum-at-jessie-plaza/ Another new commission! Rebar begins 2012 with work on an exciting project in Seattle: an interactive light sculpture designed to activate the newly built Jackson Plaza at night. The piece will respond interactively to the motion and proximity of people who walk by, or walk through, the plaza. Installation is ... http://rebargroup.org/doxa/2012/01/rebar-commissioned-for-interactive-light-sculpture-at-jackson-plaza-seattle/ We just got a copy of Taschen's 2012 Street Art Calendar, featuring uncommissioned urban art projects everywhere!  A photo of Rebar's very first Park(ing) Day in 2005 is featured on Week 16. http://rebargroup.org/doxa/2011/12/1499/ [caption id="attachment_1489" align="alignnone" width="614" caption="Join us at Rebar, and someone may just bake you a cake."][/caption] Emerging designers, artists and urban instigators take note: the Rebar studio in San Francisco is now accepting applications for Apprenticeship positions starting early in 2012. Actual start date and duration is flexible, but we do have ... http://rebargroup.org/doxa/2011/12/apprenticeship-applications-now-accepted-for-winterspring-2012/ Rebar recently traveled to South America to participate in a conference hosted by the municipality of Chacao, Caracas, VZ entitled Sustainable City: environmental management and risk as a promoter of development. We were part of a group of international participants that included Allan Lavell, PhD. in Economic Geography at the London ... http://rebargroup.org/doxa/2011/11/sustainable-city-environmental-management-and-risk-as-a-promoter-of-development-chacao-2011/ A group from Rebar, Oikonos Ecosystem Knowledge, and habitat restoration experts Go Native headed out to Año Nuevo Island on November 8th & 9th to finish work on the island for the fall 2011 season. We are excited to report that the habitat ridge on the island was finally completed! The ridge, which serves ... http://rebargroup.org/doxa/2011/11/habitat-restoration-on-ano-nuevo-island/