The Panhandle Bandshell Project is a collaborative effort between several Bay Area arts and design groups, working in concert.
The Finch Mob (www.finchmob.com) is a San Francisco-based arts collective made up of an eclectic group of artists, with experience in painting, drawing, large-scale installations, photography, performance, event production and project management.
Since the success of their initial Premiere Gallery Exhibition in May 2006, and a luminaria project in July 2006, the Finch Mob have been focusing on individual artistic endeavors, such as the Scrap Eden project at Burning Man 2006, art installations and gallery exhibitions around San Francisco, and a couple members started attending the San Francisco Arts Institute. The collective is excited to be regrouping and collaborating once again with talented individuals on an inspiring project.
Rebar (www.rebargroup.org) is a collaborative group of creators, designers and activists based in San Francisco.
Rebar was formed in 2004 to design and construct the Cabinet National Library - a functioning library built out of a file cabinet in the middle of the New Mexico desert.
In 2005 Rebar created the Park(ing) project, transforming a metered parking spot into a temporary public park and in 2006, Rebar organized Park(ing) Day, an international event reclaiming the street for people.
Rebar's ongoing COMMONspace project is part of Southern Exposure Gallery's SoEx OFFSITE, a series of major commissioned public art projects investigating diverse strategies for exploring and mapping public space.
Rebar's work is fundamentally motivated by the desire to animate the arbitrariness of what French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu calls the doxa: the uncontested acceptance of the daily life-world and the adherence to a set of social relations we take to be self evident. Rebar's projects are intended to engage social, ecological and cultural processes as they unfold materially in space and time. While Rebar's work can be used or interpreted as playful, ridiculous, or absurd, it is also highly functional. Rebar remixes the ordinary, repurposes the ubiquitous, and rebuilds with invisible structural material ... much like rebar itself.
Christopher Guillard is a founding partner of CMG Landscape Architecture, serving as the firm's managing principal and directing many of the firm's projects. Prior to founding CMG Landscape Architecture he worked with Hargreaves Associates, serving as a project manager and designer on many of the firm's award winning public open space and waterfront park projects. Chris's passion and commitment to vibrant public space and sustainable environmental design has benefited projects such as Crissy Field, Treasure Island and the Crocker Amazon Playground, which he completed in collaboration with the NPC. In 2001 he received the outstanding alumni award from the College of Architecture and Urban Studies at Virginia Tech. He lectures and teaches on landscape urbanism and design.
Mark Sinclair is our team's structural engineer. He is an Associate Principal, SE, at Degenkolb Engineers in San Francisco. And boy do we owe him a beer or something.
JB and Steve working the magnetic drill. Photo by Will Chase.