Barnsdall Olive wood workshop exhibition & online auction
Barnsdall Olive Wood Workshop Participant, Kelly Akashi, holding her selected piece of olive wood. Image courtesy of Chris Young.
In June 2021, 400 olive trees at Barnsdall Art Park were carefully pruned by Mariposa Landscapes, Inc. That special effort was funded with a $25,000 grant from the Barnsdall Art Park Foundation and supervised by the City of Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks and the Los Angeles Parks Foundation.
Instead of grinding all of the pruned tree branches into wood chips, every piece larger than 2 inches in diameter was saved. The Barnsdall Olive Wood Workshop was established by the Barnsdall Art Park Foundation to transform those olive wood logs into original objects created by a group of renowned Los Angeles artists, designers, architects, and landscape architects.
Those unique items were displayed in a group exhibition at the contemporary art gallery, Luis De Jesus Los Angeles, from November 13 through December 4, 2021.
The exhibited olive wood objects were also sold via an online fundraising auction. The net profit from each acquired piece was divided between the creator of that item and the Barnsdall Olive Grove Fund.
We are grateful for all of the generous individuals who joined the Barnsdall Olive Wood Workshop Collectors Circle in 2021 by purchasing an object created by our group of extraordinary participants.
Janet Alberti
Christopher James Alexander
Cleopatra B. Alexander
James N. Alexander
Elizabeth N. Alexander
Amy Ardell
Claudia Glenn Barasch
Jennifer Bender
Kate Devine Brady
Beth Rudin DeWoody
Jennifer Morgan
Dan Nguyen
Fred Schneider
Elena Alexander Tamarin
Nicholas Alexander Tamarin
Nate Tamarin
Azadeh Shladovsky
Bert Voorhees
Ann Soh Woods
PARTICIPANTS
The Barnsdall Art Park Foundation is honored and grateful that the following talented individuals and organizations dedicated their creativity and valuable time to the inaugural Barnsdall Olive Wood Workshop Exhibition and Auction.
Sev’s Wood Crafts: Katherine Pakradouni
Sev’s Wood Crafts: Sev Pakradouni
wrk-shp: Airi Isoda and Ryan Upton, in collaboration with John Park
Please support the revitalization and expansion of Barnsdall Art Park’s historic landscape by joining the Barnsdall Foundation’s Donor Groups.