grow sunflowers, make art
Artomatic 2008 ended on Sunday and the Sunflower Art Project is proud to report that we gave away well over 100,000 seeds and loads of plants. Our guest book is brimming with thank you notes and it was fun to chat with everyone who caught us hanging out at our installation filling seed bags.
Here at Sunflower Central, we’re digging a project called Real Small Art (and not just because Tiffany is helping us share the sunflower project with the world).
Real Small Art League is an ongoing public art project to inspire random acts of artistic kindness and creative awareness. A growing number of artists are committed to making, posting, and giving away tiny works in surprise locations. A little work of art can go a long way.
The project blog is here.
This looks like a really fun project. Thanks for the email, Tiffany!
The Sunflower Art Project is setting up camp on the 12th floor at Artomatic 2008. After you stop by and pick up some sunflower seeds or maybe even a seedling or two, stick around and see lots of art, meet lots of interesting and unusual people, and see a band or two or three…
SumSeeds are caffeinated sunflower seeds.
“A lot of people chew sunflower seeds to stay awake and give them energy, and we just thought we’d combine the two of them,” said Tim Walter, president of Carpenter-based Dakota Valley Products.
Available, it probably goes without saying, at ThinkGeek, purveyors of all things unnaturally cafffeinated - not that there’s anything wrong with that.
Let’s face it, people who eat healthy foods and shun caffeinated sweets in the office are annoying. Really, on the whole they are more in shape, have more “natural “energy, and make the rest of us “unhealthy” office folk look like complete losers. And why? Just because they make the choice to eat fruit and nuts while we are scarfing down chocolate covered espresso beans and Jolt Mints? Because they choose to imbibe filtered vitamin water while we chug Bawls? Well, enough is enough. Time to have your cake and eat it too (metaphorically)!
[view the whole amusing ThinkGeek product description]
We haven’t tested this fascinating product yet. If you have, leave us a comment and let us know how they taste.
In Washington, DC, even sunflowers have an association. In this case the aptly named National Sunflower Association, or NSA. The NSA represents commercial agricultural sunflower production, but we think the site is still interesting to the non-farmer.
Although the sun never sets on our optimism here at Sunflower Central, we’re not delusional enough to make any hard and fast promises about a Fall show. Summer08 is a whole ‘nother ballgame, and we’ve been planning and scheming day and night to create something cool.
I thought I’d share our working-draft of our so-called Mission Statement. (It was for a proposal. You don’t think we use actual corporate jargonbabble at Sunflower Central, do you?)
The mission of the Sunflower Art Festival is to produce a summer-long, multi-jurisdictional, interactive, eco-friendly arts extravaganza.
In other words, we want to encourage as many people and places as possible to make art, grow sunflowers, display sunflower art, make art from sunflowers, look at sunflowers, look at sunflower art, make sunflowers from art, and, most importantly, have lots and lots of fun.
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Grow sunflowers and make art!
What are you waiting for?
Take a look at this sunflower website.
There’s lots of information, links, and pictures of sunflowers…along with planting tips
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