Jersey City Art School Wins Grassroots Money at Art Eat-Up
By Jon Whiten • Mar 18th, 2010 • Category: Arts, Blog
At last weekend’s inaugural Art Eat-Up, Thomas John Carlson took home the most votes — and $640 — to rejuvenate the Jersey City Art School‘s 1,100 square-foot backyard by creating a space where artists can draw plants and botanicals.
The garden, which backs up from the Art School’s 5th Street location to the Embankment, will feature a central spiraling pyramid sculpture made of galvanized steel pipe; the piece will become the home of ivy and other climbing plants as well. The entire garden will eventually have set hours when it is open to the public, in addition to being used by people taking classes at the school.
Here’s Carlson’s before shot and after sketch:
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Jon Whiten is the founding editor of the Jersey City Independent; he now works for a public-policy nonprofit in Trenton.
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