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CROSSROADS
COMMUNITY (the farm):
San Francisco; Bonnie Ora Sherk was Founding Director, President 1974-80.
An
early LIFE
FRAME
(beginning in 1974), resulted in CROSSROADS
COMMUNITY (the farm)
a life-scale environmental and social artwork that brought many
people from different disciplines and cultures together with each
other and other species—plants and animals. The
Farm
also involved extensive land transformation including the integration
of disparate land parcels—all adjacent to and incorporating
a major freeway interchange into a new city culture-ecology park.
(It was one of the first inner-city Brownfield projects that The
Trust For Public Land
worked on.)
The Farm created a whole: a new City Farm
Park and gardens, The Raw Egg
Animal Theater (TREAT), community programs in art and
environmental education, and the juxtaposition with the freeway
monolith, creating a bucolic and vibrant contrast of nonmechanized
and technological forms. It was an early LIFE FRAME—a
sketch—a work of life-scale environmental performance sculpture,
as well as being one of the first Alternative Art Spaces in the
country, the home of a State pre-school, and the popular venue
for school children of all ages during and after school, and on
weekends.
See Video About The Farm
Read more about The Farm
View
Before (1974) and After (1983) Photographs of the Farm
View Photographs of First Garden
On State Land
View Scenes From The Raw
Egg Animal Theater (TREAT)
at The Farm (1976)
Art Installation
of The Farm at Braunstein Quay Gallery 2005
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