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.

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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