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      SHORELINE PROJECT

      Vision

      Shoreline Project offers communities a platform to actively participate in the environment around them, hoping this collective action encourages a shift in perspective. A shift exchanging the belief that natural boundaries exist as barriers instead of shared resources.  This work was founded on the belief that art brings people together, in an inclusive way, and celebrates our intrinsic human connection to the natural world.

      Shoreline Project acts as a first step in imagining solutions to these existential issues.

      Process

      Over a year of meticulous planning went into Shoreline Project. From designing illuminated umbrellas, to gathering over a thousand volunteers, to measuring and mapping the beach, to studying the tides, and choreographing prompts for igniting volunteers into motion— no detail was overlooked.

      The sound of drums beating to “the heartbeat of the ocean” cued the opening of umbrellas and set the volunteers to action. Shoreline Project pulsated with the collective energy of volunteers and took on a life of its own.

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          Building Community

          One thousand community members gathered at sunset on Laguna’s Main Beach and in unison, lit their umbrellas to the cue of local musicians. Over the span of two hours the one thousand became one — a singular luminous organism. Through dance, laughter and sheer joy, former strangers turned into friends, forgetting their differences and embracing the power of creativity.

          Civic Landscape

          Shoreline Project is a living, breathing creative experience existing at the intersection of art, nature, and community. Capturing and then projecting the work in action, helps us reconsider public space as a canvas for collective art.

          Partners

          COMMUNITY PARTNERS:
          Laguna Art Museum: Malcolm Warner, Executive Director
          City of Laguna Beach: Sian Poeschl and Sherri Aubin
          City of Laguna Beach Police Department

          ET PROJECTS:
          Elizabeth Turk
          Laura Siapin
          Erik Thienes
          Lara Wilson

          PHOTOGRAPHY / VIDEOGRAPHY:
          Madison Holler
          Michael Townsend
          Mike Thienes
          Christopher Stobie
          Dan Hopkinson
          Enrique Del Rivero
          Eric Stoner

          DANCE:
          The Assembly Dance: Choreographer, Lara Wilson
          CARLON: Choreographer, Jay Carlon
          Chapman University Dance: Julianne O’Brien
          Orange Coast College Dance: Shana Menaker
          Laguna High School Dance: Estee Fratzke
          Dance Works Dance Studio: Rebecca Bush
          Molly Flynn Movement Collective: Molly Flynn

          MUSIC:
          Cellist: Ross Gasworth
          Laguna Drum Circle: Billy Fried

          DISTRIBUTION OF UMBRELLAS:
          Ryman Arts
          Laguna College of Art and Design: Art Students, Julian Velarde, Jonathan Burke, and Brian Heggie
          Orange Coast College: Art Students and Leland Paxton
          Scripps College: Art Students and Alumni
          SCAPE Gallery: Jeannie Denholm, Kathleen Updyke Brown, and Vivian Browne

          INTERNS:
          Sophia Silane
          Victoria Browne
          Chiara Kaufman
          Tegan Wright

          PRODUCTION OF UMBRELLAS:
          Smithsonian Art and Research Fellowship
          Specialz: Dave Smith
          Logotek: Phil Page

          RESEARCH:
          Sherman Gardens Library: Paul Wormser
          Laguna Historical Society