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For Immediate Release: May 13, 2003
Media Contact: Gabrielle Jones (415) 557-4282
San Francisco Public Library presents
What a Dump!
Saturday, May 24, 2003
3:00 - 4:00 p.m.
ONE PERSON'S TRASH IS ANOTHER PERSON'S ART
San Francisco - What a Dump!, a video and slide presentation detailing the
creative work of turning trash into art will take place on Wednesday, May 24, 2003 from 3:00 -4:00 p.m. at the San Francisco
Public Library's Koret Auditorium (lower level), 100 Larkin Street, San Francisco. The lecture presentation is in conjunction
with the current exhibit Trash to Treasures, which runs until May 31 in the Wallace
Stegner Environmental Center
at the Main Public Library.
What a Dump! highlights the San Francisco based Artist-in-Residence (AIR) Program at the
Sanitary Landfill Company. Paul Fresina, Program Director of AIR will walk the audience through a visually captive "day in
the life of" AIR artists and discuss how the program operates and recruits talent. Hands on examples of recycled art can
also be viewed in the Wallace Stegner Environmental Center located on the 5th Floor in the Main Library.
The Artist-in-Residence Program at Sanitary Fill Company is an innovative program that
inspires and educates people about recycling and resource conservation by providing local artists with access to materials,
a work space, and other resources at the Solid Waste Transfer and Recycling Center. Artists create pieces from what would have
been sent with the rest of San Francisco's trash to landfills across the Bay Area.
What a Dump! explores this conservation form of artwork and provides the community with a
better understanding of what might happen to the trash they curbside.
All programs and exhibitions at the San Francisco Public Library are free and open to the public.
For more information, please call: (415) 557-4282.
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