August 28, 2005 - Sundays @ Not A Cornfield

Lauren Bon and Not A Cornfield cordially invite you to:
Sundays @ Not A Cornfield
Drum Circle + Corn Planting + Oral History Booth + Story Series

SUNDAY AUGUST 28 @ 3-7pm

Growing in the historic center of Los Angeles, the Not Cornfield project transforms an industrial brownfield site into a cornfield for one agricultural cycle. Now the Los Angeles Historic State Park, the site popularly known as 'The Cornfield' had remained derelict for more than a decade. The project serves as a potent metaphor that provides a focus for reflection and action in a city unclear about the location of its energetic and historic center.

"Sundays @ Not A Cornfield" brings people together into a hand-planted "eye" within the mechanically planted cornfield in order to work, talk and make music together, thereby bringing a communal energy to the project and allowing the handmade versus mechanically-made edge to hum.

*Interpretive Tours of the 32-acre art project available at 3pm.
*Drum Circle with artist & drummer Michael McCall from 4-6pm. (Bring your own drum or other instrument.)
*Corn Planting with gardener Jaime Lopez from 4-6pm.
*Oral History Booth with RadioSonideros from 4-6pm.
*Story Series, "From Downtown to Highland Park" with R.S Armstrong, Bob Steinberg, and Hilary Kaplan at 6pm.

Not a Cornfield artist, Lauren Bon resides in Los Angeles and holds a Masters of Architecture degree from MIT and a BA from Princeton. Ms. Bon is a trustee of the Annenberg Foundation and President of Not A Cornfield, LLC. Her recent urban, public and land art projects in the U.S., Hong Kong, Belfast and Northern Ireland, as well as her role as a trustee, make her uniquely poised to build the capacity of the Foundation in the area of site based philanthropy, serving communities through education, civic, health, artistic initiatives and programs. Not a Cornfield art project is being developed through a grant by Annenberg Foundation.

R.S. Armstrong is a poet and artist who lives and works in downtown Los Angeles. She studied poetry at Yale University, Middlebury College, and Bennington College. Her work has recently been published in The Diagram and the Beloit Poetry Journal.

Bob Steinberg was born in Rochester, NY in 1928 and moved to Highland Park in 1945, where he graduated from Franklin High. He has practiced law for the past 50 plus years with the firm of Rose, Klein & Marias representing injured workers involved in worksite accidents. The firm's principal office has always been in downtown LA. Bob and his wife Lenny have three daughters and six grandchildren.

Hilary Kaplan, Story Series curator and LA native, founded and directs "Gathering at the River," the LA River oral history project. Her work as a writer, editor, and oral historian has appeared in the Los Angeles Public Library's Central Library, Pond Gallery, Fourteen Hills, The Next American City, and select department stores. She is Kaufmann Humanities Scholar at San Francisco State University, where she is an MFA candidate in poetry.

Not A Cornfield
1201 North Spring Street
Phone: 323.226.1158
Always Free to the Public, Handicapped Accessible
Free Parking at South and North Gates

DIRECTIONS (NORTH GATE): From the intersection of North Spring and College (Gold Line - Chinatown stop) take North Spring north 3 blocks to the northern end of the project site. The entrance is on the left, co-located at 1799 Baker Street.