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GUEST SPEAKERS
Greg Gale is a highly creative inventor and designer of earth-friendly packaging solutions. He is the founder of Regale Corp in Napa Valley, where he developed a technology that molds fiber pulp into energy saving, biodegradable packaging solutions. With the help of Bill Ortz at the Western Regional Branch of the USDA, Gale has successfully experimented with and transformed agricultural "waste" or bio-mass into products that are traditionally made from non-renewable resources.
Jenny Montgomery has been researching the myriad uses of corn in the post-industrial age as well as concepts in sustainable agriculture and economics. She has specifically sought innovative and environmentally loving applications of the Not a Cornfield corn and stalks come harvest time.
ABOUT FRIDAY NIGHTS @ NOT A CORNFIELD
Friday Nights @ Not A Cornfield brings people together in order to share, engage, energize, and enhance the organic nexus that is this project.
ABOUT THE NOT A CORNFIELD ART PROJECT
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.
ABOUT LAUREN BON, NOT A CORNFIELD ARTIST
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.
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