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Watch Art Happen - Art Towers Call for Entries

Simon Rodia took 33 years to build his towers in Watts, Gustave Eiffel built a famous tower in France and Antoni Gaudí created 18 towers as part of the Temple of the Sagrada Família in Spain. These towers soar above us but also inspire us. Some were built by men with extensive education, others by simple men with very little training. All were compelled to create something that motivates, either creatively or spiritually.

Watch Art Happen invites artist teams to be inspired by these towers and the opportunity to create their own art towers as part of the exhibition The Making of Art: The First 30,000 Years at the Millard Sheets Center for the Arts at Fairplex during the 2009 L.A. County Fair. The teams will use salvaged material for their towers, much like Rodia, and will be required to incorporate movement into their designs reminiscent of the passage through time depicted in The Making of Art exhibition. Three teams of artist/designers will be constructing their art towers outside MSCAF while more than a million visitors to the Fair view the process.

September 5 through October 4, 2009 (closed Mondays and Tuesdays)
For more information: http://www.millardsheetscenter.org
Coordinator: Dina Romero, (909) 446-7242

Cristeen Martinez
Gallery Supervisor/Public Programs Coordinator
Millard Sheets Center for the Arts at Fairplex
1101 W. McKinley Avenue
Pomona, CA 91768
909.865.4561
cmartinez@fairplex.com
http://www.millardsheetscenter.org