Artist Interview: Let’s All Jump into The Pool with Jen Lewin
This is our first post in a series of artist interviews. In these interviews, we asked artists to share their words of wisdom, lessons learned, and encouragement to new artists. Our community’s artists...
View ArticleVisit “Aurora” in Palo Alto through Summer 2015
Do you remember “Aurora” from Burning Man 2011? This beautiful LED sculpture of a willow tree, with opalescent bark and shiny copper leaves has been installed at Palo Alto City Hall since November...
View ArticleSoundwave – Festival of Cutting Edge Art and Music Experiences
MEDIATE Art Group, producers of the Soundwave, a festival of cutting edge art and music experiences, is launching their 7th season with a fundraiser and launch party. (You may remember them from...
View Article“Crossroads of Curiosity” Exhibition at the British Library
David Normal’s lightbox murals, Crossroads of Curiosity (2014 Black Rock City Honoraria, and 2015 Global Arts Grantee), that were central to the “Souk” in the 2014 Man base, are traveling to London for...
View ArticleArt Shanty Issues Call for Artists for the 2016 On-Ice Program!
Burning Man’s Global Art Grants artists are making remarkable, engaging work all over the world, and many welcome your participation. This 2015 grantee project invites you to join in! Burning Man...
View ArticleCzech It Out … Prague Artists on the Playa!
Jakub Mierva of the Bambufonomat Project (Bamboo Element), funded by the Global Art Grants program two years ago, is sharing the wonderful news with us that their interactive musical and visual...
View ArticleGetting Your Bearings in Wine Country
“Getting Your Bearings” by David Boyer, 2014. (Photo courtesy of the author.) Reno artist David Boyer’s 2014 Burning Man kinetic wind sculpture Getting Your Bearings is now on display in Napa,...
View ArticleThe “Do-acracy” of the Flaming Lotus Girls
My initial encounter with the Flaming Lotus Girls on the playa in 2006 was with Serpent Mother, an awesome 168-foot-long skeletal serpent with propane fire running down her spine coiled around her egg....
View ArticleReach Again: Burning Baskets Rebounds After Vandalism
The destruction of art can be an expression of contempt, creativity…or both. So much—if not most—artwork created by and for the Burning Man community is impermanent and predicated on interactivity, its...
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