Children's Nest Egg: 4/21/19

Monday, April 22, 2019

Post on Transitions of Children's Nest Egg

Over on the Full Spring Studio website, there's a post about Children's Nest Egg, and its recent transitions.

"Spring is a time of transitions. Blood Root peek up from the damp, grey-brown earth with their fragile stems and delicate petals. Buds thicken the ends of tree twigs with green potential. Robins, with mouthfuls of dried grass, weave their nests anticipating a new generation within small blue eggs. In each of these cases, something had to disintegrate to provide the circumstances for something new. Soil nutrients are based on the investment of last year’s life.
I’ve been thinking about transitions. March 21 marked the 11^th birthday of Full Spring Studio. And today, April 22^nd, Earth Day, is the ground breaking ceremony for the new interpretive building at Westwood Hills Nature Center in St. Louis Park. While I don’t live in St. Louis Park anymore, I have an attachment to it, particularly to Westwood Hills Nature Center, since it was here in 2008 that I started work with a great team and community on Children’s Nest Egg (In the Park), a participatory public art project. And it was this project that inspired me to start Full Spring Studio, LLC."

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Gratitudes

Thank you to the funders for this project: The Arts & Culture Grant Program, a collaborative program between the City of St. Louis Park, the Friends of the Arts, and the St. Louis Park Community Foundation.

Thank you to Westwood Hills Nature Center, especially Mark Oestreich, its Manager for providing a location for this project and assisting in its planning.

Thank you to the helpful staff at the City of St. Louis Park, especially Marcia Honold, Lisa Songle, Ann Boettcher, John Tilton, Rick Beane, Reg Dunlap, Jamie Zwilling. Thank you also to the Sentence to Serve Crew that helped prepare the branches.

Thank you to guest speakers. Author, Daniel J. Philippon, from the U of MN spoke at the Legacy Leaving Event and Gail Buhl of the U of MN Raptor Center spoke at the Nest Raising Event.

Thank you to Girl Scout Troop 10297 who adopted Children's Nest Egg as a service project, and did the bulk of the nest-raising and contributed writings to the project. It was an honor to be part of your Bronze Award work and event.

Thank you to all the contributors to the Community Writings incorporated into the project and events for sharing your vision.

Fall 2010 Update: Thank you to Girl Scout Troop 12279 who re-raised the nest as part of its renewal cycle.

Monday, April 22, 2019

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