Cayuga Park Press and Links

PRESS:

San Francisco Chronicle rave review by Scott Ostler

Movie! Cayuga Park, Garden of Light

San Francisco Bay Guardian Best-of the-Bay Award 2007 (Select "Outer Mission" then scroll down.)

GoCityKids Park page

LINKS

The Watts Towers: Incredible, enormous art created by Italian immigrant construction-worker Simon Rodia in his free time starting in his early 40s, sixty or seventy years ago. Striking parallels to Cayuga Park, although the city (LA) was less supportive than SF has been to Demi. The community had to fight to prevent demolition. LA claimed the towers were unsafe, so those who loved the towers hired wrecking machinery and made sure the press were present as they failed to pull the towers down. Now, the towers are one of only nine folk art sites listed in the National Register of Historic Places, and a National Historic Landmark. There is a big arts center in Watts honoring this work, with daily guided tours of the towers. I hope Cayuga Park will someday receive similar attention.

City Museum of St Louis: Ignore the bland name. It probably helps them get grants. This is a giant building with enormous open spaces, formerly a bank, filled with delightful art made entirely of recycled materials that you can climb through like a jungle-gym. They keep adding and changing and refining; I just visited the site and there is all sorts of marvelous stuff that wasn't there four or five years ago. World-class project with a beautiful website that really gives you a sense of the work.

Feast of Weeds -- Josie the Webmaster's sculpture and design. Mixed media with some heavily-modified found objects, rich texture and color. I love my blowtorch.

Webmaster Josie Porter