CCAI Alumni in the News

[CCAI Alumni in the News! -- Fall 2006 'CAP' [CCAI Art in Public] artist Erik Burke was featured in New York Times. Our thanks to Joe DeLappe for the tip!]

October 23, 2008
A Facade to Celebrate the Neighbors
By Steven Kurutz

Last spring, Jeremy Sapienza, a 28-year-old Web editor, and his partner bought a two-story house on a rough block of Central Avenue in Bushwick, Brooklyn. Like most urban pioneers, they have been renovating as funds allow.

They couldn’t afford to redo the facade, though, which Mr. Sapienza described disdainfully as “flat stucco painted Pepto-Bismol pink.” So this summer they hired an artist named Erik Burke to cover it with a mural.

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learn more about Erik's CCAI Project

[photograph from the New York Times. Click to enlarge.]

"... a fermentation seminar"

[Just in the nick of time, just in from CCAI 'CAP' - Art in Public - alum Elaine Tin Nyo:]


SAP Open Studios
Seoksu Market 286-15, Man-an-gu
Anyang
031-472-2886

October 25
3pm

"Conceptual artist, Elaine Tin Nyo will present "Kimchi, Jeotgal, Makgeolli: a fermentation seminar." The seminar panel will consist of Korean food experts who will discuss how the method of wild fermentation makes Korean food unique in the world.

Anyang chef, Jeong Hyo Jin will provide examples of kimchi, jeotgal and makgeolli for the panel to begin the discussion. Also on the panel are Kim Soo Jin, President of Food and Culture Korea; traditional Korean alcohol authority, Park Rock Dam, ; Sin Soo Ji, curator of Kimchi Field Museum; biologist, I Chang Hong; and food-trend expert, Kang Tae An."

[graphic from public information announcement sent out by the artist. Click here to read about her 2007 CCAI CAP project]

CCAI CAP Project Video!

[actually, click below to play...]

Valerie Bischoff has created a terrrific video documenting the creative production of Erik Burke and Yale Wolf's CAP project, a mural in downtown Carson City.

Our thanks to all three of these three wonderful CAP contributors!

View the Video

read the press release: