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Public Art Installation Puts "HOME" on Library Walls

“Turn out libraries have nothing at all to do with silence.” This is the quote guiding the public art installation coming to the Santa Cruz's Downtown Branch Library as its walls once again become the canvas for a local artist. This last week of July printmaker Bridget Henry is orchestrating a project titled HOME which will remain on the library’s exterior until worn or washed away by weather.

“As long as I have lived in Santa Cruz the topic of homes has been a part of the public and private conversation,” Henry writes in the project’s blog. “Who has one, who can afford one, what is your dream home, what would you do if you didn’t have one? I find myself imaging where I would sleep if I didn’t have one, would I make a tree house, dig a burrow, make one out of straw, stick or brick?”

After gathering community input with library staff and volunteers on how others conceptualize “home,” Henry carved nine woodcuts which will be enlarged, infused with words from her research and wheat pasted onto the building’s walls.

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HOME is the second installation to use this space as part of Libraries Inside Out, a venture inspired by the French artist JR’s global, participatory “Inside Out” public art project. Last year’s “YOU” photography project featured black and white pictures of local residents and library patrons.

A reception will be held  for HOME August 2 at 5:30 p.m.. Everyone is invited.

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