1. Bonnie Ora Sherk was an American landscape-space artist, performance artist, landscape planner, and educator.
17 Facts About Bonnie Sherk
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Bonnie Sherk was the founder of The Farm, and A Living Library.
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Bonnie Sherk's work has been published in art books, journals, and magazines.
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Bonnie Sherk's work is considered a pioneering contribution to Eco Art.
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Bonnie Sherk Ora Kellner was born on May 18,1945, in New Bedford, Massachusetts.
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Bonnie Sherk studied under Robert Watts at Rutgers, who taught her about the Fluxus movement.
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Bonnie Sherk later enrolled in an MFA program at San Francisco State University.
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Bonnie Sherk moved to San Francisco in the late 1960s with her husband David Bonnie Sherk.
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Bonnie Sherk is a developer of a systemic, place-based approach to environmental transformation and education which links systems - biological, cultural, technological.
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Bonnie Sherk's goal is to integrate local resources to make relevant ecological transformations, which are integrated with hands-on learning opportunities and community programs.
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Bonnie Sherk believes that the environment is a "beautiful" and "diverse" place and that it is the most practical place for art and to create transformation, because it has the ability to reach communities near and far.
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Bonnie Sherk established these spaces in order to build education centers children and outreach opportunities for communities in San Francisco and New York City.
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The piece consisted of Bonnie Sherk eating lunch in The Lion House at the San Francisco Zoo, while in an empty, though identical, cage adjacent to the lion's and tiger's enclosures.
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Bonnie Sherk did this on a Saturday at 2pm in 1971, during normal feeding time and prime spectator watching.
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At the first performance, Bonnie Sherk, dressed in a formal evening gown, sat in an unholstered armchair amidst garbage and creek runoff from the construction of the Army Street freeway interchange.
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Bonnie Sherk continued her piece at the San Francisco Zoo in a number of indoor and outdoor animal cages.
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Bonnie Sherk died on August 8,2021, in San Francisco, California.