Come make Flags for the Playa! This year the Black Rock Arts Foundation’s ScrapEden playa-garden draws on the likeness of a working-class American backyard. We’ll create a casual, welcoming environment strewn with clotheslines of colorful, flowing panels of fabric. Each panel of fabric, about 1 x 1 to 2 x 2 feet in size, will have a single word on…Keep reading >>

Last June, I called my friend Playa Jewel and said, “whatchadoin? Let’s go on an art adventure.” I had been putting together some photos for the Black Rock Arts Foundation so we started at the Panhandle Bandshell in San Francisco, and is it ever gorgeous? http://www.panhandlebandshell.com/ The Panhandle Bandshell is a full-scale performance stage constructed almost entirely out of reclaimed…Keep reading >>

The Black Rock Arts Foundation installation at Burning Man 2006, ScrapEden BRC, was an incredible success. The Scrap Shack itself looked like it was pulled off the roadside in Anywhere, Montana. The whole exhibition space, scribed by a shallow split rail fence, filled up with works by 44 contributing artists who hauled their pieces into the expansive dust of Black…Keep reading >>

As many of you already know, this year the Black Rock Arts Foundation is embarking on an exciting new on-playa project, ScrapEden BRC. We are inviting participants to contribute in a variety of different ways and scales. One of our goals is to arrive at a critical mass of many small sculptures, thereby giving the idea of ground cover, or…Keep reading >>

This year at Burning Man the Black Rock Arts Foundation is creating, ScrapEden BRC, a collaborative garden installation populated by garden-inspired sculptural elements created from re-claimed, re-purposed and re-cycled materials, and all citizens of BRC are invited to participate! To date we’ve received word of 15 projects that will be coming to BRC for collective exhibition, but we want more!…Keep reading >>

Scrap: n. Discarded waste material, often metal suitable for reprocessing.Eden: n. A delightful place, a garden, a paradise. Scrap Eden: n.1. A delightful garden made of re-claimed discarded waste material, often metal suitable for reprocessing.2. Black Rock City’s First Participant-Based Community Garden, created by the community for the community3. A project of the Black Rock Arts Foundation This year the…Keep reading >>