Groundworks: Environmental Collaboration in Contemporary Art
   
Exhibition Fact Sheet

Organizing Institution:
Regina Gouger Miller Gallery,
Carnegie Mellon University
Jenny Strayer, Director
jstrayer@andrew.cmu.edu
412 268 3877

Curator:
Grant Kester,
University of California, San Diego
Gkester@ucsd.edu
858 822 4860

Artists & Collectives:
Ala Plastica, Navjot Altaf, Christine Brill, Jackie Brookner, Tim Collins and Reiko Goto, Stephanie Flom, Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison, Walter Hood and Alma Dusolier, Huit Facettes Abdoulaye Ndoye, Ichi Ikeda, Jonathan Kline, Constance Merriman and Thomas Merriman, A. Laurie Palmer, Park Fiction, Platform, Ann Rosenthal, Susan Steinman and Suzanne Lacy, Wochenklausur.

New Media Component:
Agricola De Cologne, Fernando Garcia-Dory, Processing, Christina McPhee, Amy Franceschini/Free Soil, Lillian Ball, Christina Ulke, Marc Herbst, Aviva Rahmani

Work:
Many of the projects featured in Groundworks are being made specifically for this exhibition. Preliminary checklists to be provided as work progresses. Dates, titles, media and dimensions will be compiled before final assembly of the exhibition. These proposals are tentative and subject to change.

Space Requirements:
Highly variable. Approximately 5,000 – 7,500 square feet.

Schedule:
October 14 – December 11, 2005 Miller Gallery, Carnegie Mellon
The exhibition will tour through August 2008.

Shipping and Insurance:
Shipping within the continental United States by air-ride, climate controlled vehicle. Venues should have standard all-risk, wall-to-wall fine art insurance coverage.

Participation Fee:
$10,000 for 8-12 weeks (negotiable), in-coming shipping, plus a pro-rated shipping fee to be determined once all venues have been established. Fee includes 50 copies of the catalogue, labels, publicity packet, registrars packet, installation instructions, and custom-made crates. Additional copies of the catalogue may be purchased at cost.