Participating Artists: Barbara De Pirro Miguel Edwards Aaron Haba Meredith Hall and Vaughn Bell Todd Lawson Julie Lindell Peppé Stephen Rock Gerry Stecca Kristin Tollefson Sylwia Tur Sponsored by: Center on Contemporary Art Carkeek Park Advisory Council Seattle Parks and Recreation Associated Recreational Council Department of Neighborhoods Supported by: Seattle Weekly Piper's Creek Nursery Hardware Sales, Bellingham, WA Ballard Hardware Ballard Sheet Metal		Site 1: Meredith Hall and Vaughn Bell Seattle, Washington www.meredith-hall.com www.vaughnbell.net About the Artists: Vaughn Bell and Meredith Hall have known each other since 1996 and bring complementary viewpoints and backgrounds to the project at Carkeek Park. Both have studied environmental history and have a passion for native plants and landscapes. Vaughn brings her past experience with interactive environmental art projects, including “Land for Adoption” in which she offers small pieces of earth with plants for adoption from a mobile cart in the city. She is a multi-disciplinary artist. Her work encompasses installations and performances involving living plants, multi-media video installation works, and public interventions. She has exhibited work in venues across the United States as well as in the UK and Japan. Vaughn holds an M.F.A. from Massachusetts College of Art. Meredith brings her knowledge of park design to the project and is a local landscape architect. Her work includes residential design in Los Angeles and site design for schools, parks, and public housing in the Puget Sound region. Some of her past projects focused on the problems of invasive plants and on revealing the environmental history of the salt ponds in the San Francisco Bay. Meredith has also been involved in Seattle Great City Initiative’s Street Transformation events and is a member of South Park Arts. She holds a master’s degree in landscape architecture from the University of California Berkeley. Artists' Statement: As an artist and a landscape architect, we are both fascinated by how the current form of the landscape reveals the history of human interactions with the environment. In the case of Carkeek Park, this history of interaction is one of settlement that altered the ecosytem and introduced new species. Current human interactions with the site continue to influence the growth and spread of various species within the park. We intend for our artwork to be not only visually stimulating, but also to draw viewers in, reminding them of the role that they play in the life of the park. By interacting with the piece, people will become part of the creation of the artwork. The “post-colony” is a collection of ephemeral structures built from invasive species that were harvested from the park. The structures serve as a “home base” from which an interactive performance takes place: visitors are invited to adopt native plants, which they then plant in the park to replace the invasive vines that were removed. Meredith Hall and Vaughn Bell would like to thank Piper's Creek Nursery for their support.