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Press Release 02/20/2009
Mayor Newsom Announces the Urban Forest Project – An Innovative Public Art Collaboration
Welcomes Compostmodern sustainable design conference to city
In April 2010, the streets of San Francisco will be lined with banners designed by leading graphic artists, depicting the urban forest. The Urban Forest Project is a public arts project calling on artists to create powerful visual statements about the environment by using images of trees. It is produced in collaboration with New York-based Worldstudio and the Academy of Art University.
The City is bringing this innovative banner program to San Francisco to raise public awareness around greening and tree planting initiatives and education. Once the banners come down, they will be converted into recycled products by students at the Academy of Art University, to be auctioned off to raise money for local tree planting initiatives and education. The project will rely entirely on corporate and foundation contributions; the Adobe Foundation is already on board as a key sponsor. [...]
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