Susan Leibovitz Steinman: Environmental and Public Art Installations

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			National Park Service Collaboration with eco-artist Jackie Brookner. Three separate but related projects, designed to address the issues and environment unique to each of the three sites.

			Waterfront Project (Elkhorn, Kentucky) Under the auspices of Appalshop in Whitesburg, Kentucky. Collaboration with Suzanne Lacy, and Yutaka Kobayashi who were invited to work with residents of Elkhorn City, Kentucky, a small ex-mining town with a population under 1,000 people.

			Mandela Artscape Two-acre median. Oakland, California, 1998-99. Symbol of positive urban regeneration on new-found but degraded open space where the 1989 earthquake collapsed an elevated freeway tragically killing motorists.

			Gardens to Go Oakland, California, 2001. Prototype community organic food garden of portable sculptural raised beds demonstrates how to grow healthy food with little money and less land—critical to ecologically and economically disadvantaged neighborhoods.

			California Avenue, California Native Palo Alto, California, 1997. Symbolic "Gateway" streetscape for City of Palo Alto.

			River of Hopes and Dreams NORCAL Sanitary Fill Company, San Francisco's waste management company, 1992. Reclamation project of collected-on-site salvage materials and drought tolerant plants.

			Urban Apple Orchard One year public installation for San Francisco Art Commission's Market Street Art in Transit program on a blighted CALTRANS lot under the freeway at Octavia and Market Streets. 1994-95

			For more information, please contact the artist at slsteinman@aol.com

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