Thread Trail Installation in Charlotte, NC

My latest installation is sited at the newly established Carolina Thread Trail in downtown Charlotte, North Carolina. On September 15th a crowd gathered for the groundbreaking at the edge of Little Sugar Creek near the Charlotte Nature Museum in Freedom Park.

For more information see the Creating a Thread blog.
A unique partnership between Catawba Lands Conservancy, the Carolina Thread Trail, Mecklenburg County Park and Recreation, the McColl Center for Visual Art, the Charlotte Nature Museum, and the involvment of local volunteers and merchants is helping make this project possible.

On KQED's SPARK Program

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Daniel McCormick: Spark KQED Public Media for Northern CA

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My thanks to Amaris Blackmore & Sara Wood at Antennna Audio.

Watch "Watershed Sculptures" on Make TV

Maker TV visited my West Marin site and featured me on an episode on MAKE. http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2009/02/maker_profile_watershed_sculptures.html
"Journey upstream with environmental artist Dan McCormick, a maker who crafts intricate watershed sculptures out of woven willow branches. Dan places his eco-art in gullies and riverbanks to help reduce erosion and filter out sediment and farm fertilizers that can clog streams and suffocate spawning salmon."

100' of Diversion

Mid-July and midway through the construction of this new sculpture that will divert a large section of the runoff from the adjacent ranch. I worked again with the Marin Conservation Corps Regen Group as construction contractors.

The sculpture winds through a low swale feeding the John West Fork of Olema Creek.

Public Television Comes to John West Fork

In conjunction with a documentary on "Makers" of the Bay Area a film crew from Minnesota Public Television visited the site on Olema Creek on one of the days I was working with the service-learning group of the Marin Conservation Corps--Project Regen. The film crew stayed with us for the day filming the installation of a new silt trap basket and then visited me in my studio at the Headlands to see how my watershed sculptures are created.

Watershed Sculpture at the Maker Faire

Thanks for all the support this weekend. And my special thanks to the pros--Phil Ross and Maria Mortati for their encouragement, inspiration and excellent logistics.

The response was overwhelming and visitors are writing their own reviews of my exhibit (see my links in the Recent Publications section on the right). Stay tuned for more updates and photos to come (we're still recovering!)